By Rod Nickel FORT MYERS, Fla. (Reuters) -Search and rescue teams in Florida on Monday were doubling back to check on tens of thousands of homes and businesses along the Gulf Coast after completing an initial search of the area that was ravaged by Hurr…
GM outsells Toyota in U.S. as industry worries about inflation
By Aishwarya Nair (Reuters) – General Motors Co outsold Japanese automaker Toyota Motor Corp in the United States in the third quarter, data on Monday showed, but analysts and investors are fretting that a darkening economic picture will lead to a drop…
Swedish geneticist wins Nobel medicine prize for decoding ancient DNA
By Natalie Grover, Niklas Pollard and Johan Ahlander STOCKHOLM/LONDON (Reuters) -Swedish geneticist Svante Paabo won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday for discoveries that underpin our understanding of how modern day people evolv…
Trial starts for man charged with deadly Wisconsin Christmas parade attack
(Reuters) – The trial of the man accused of killing six people by driving his car into a Christmas parade near Milwaukee, Wisconsin, last year began on Monday with jury selection. Darrell Brooks, 40, has pleaded not guilty to 77 charges, including six …
U.S. Supreme Court punts Oakland appeal over Las Vegas move by NFL’s Raiders
By Mike Scarcella WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear Oakland’s bid to collect more than $240 million in damages from the National Football League and its 32 teams for allowing the Raiders franchise to relocate to L…
Iran’s Khamenei backs police over Mahsa Amini protests, may signal tougher crackdown
By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI (Reuters) -Iran’s supreme leader on Monday gave his full backing to security forces confronting protests ignited by the death of Mahsa Amini in custody, comments that could herald a harsher crackdown to quell unrest more than two…
Russia sacks commander of Western military district – reports
LONDON (Reuters) -Russia has sacked the commander of its Western military district, the news outlet RBC reported on Monday, the latest in a series of top officials to be fired after a series of defeats and humiliations in the war in Ukraine. RBC said C…
Russia’s war machine faces ridicule from two Putin allies
By Guy Faulconbridge and Felix Light LONDON (Reuters) -The withdrawal of Russian forces from a strategically important town in eastern Ukraine has prompted two powerful allies of President Vladimir Putin to do something rare in modern Russia: publicly …
OPEC+ mulling largest cuts since 2020 crisis, sources say
LONDON (Reuters) -The OPEC+ group of oil producers is discussing output cuts of more than 1 million barrels per day (bpd), OPEC sources said, and voluntary cuts by individual members could come on top of that, making it their largest cut since 2020. Th…
U.S. Supreme Court spurns coal executive’s challenge to mine-explosion conviction
By Nate Raymond WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned away former Massey Energy Co CEO Donald Blankenship’s bid to overturn his conviction on a charge of criminal conspiracy stemming from a 2010 West Virginia mine explosion tha…