(Reuters) – Billionaire Elon Musk’s social media firm Twitter will introduce an ‘Official’ label for select verified accounts including major media outlets and governments, when it launches its new $8 service with the blue verification mark, its early …
Factbox-How Wall St and billionaires have donated to U.S. elections
By John McCrank NEW YORK (Reuters) – Wall Street and investment firm leaders have been prominent in the list of top individual donors ahead of the U.S. midterm elections, with influential megadonors growing as a percentage of overall contributions, acc…
Disney shares drop as streaming costs drag on earnings
By Dawn Chmielewski and Lisa Richwine (Reuters) -Walt Disney Co said on Tuesday its marquee streaming service, Disney+, gained more subscribers than Wall Street had expected, but investment costs dragged quarterly earnings below analysts’ targets. Shar…
Russia, U.S. to hold first talks under nuclear treaty since Ukraine conflict – State Dept
By Simon Lewis WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States and Russia have agreed to resume holding meetings under the New Start nuclear arms reduction treaty that have been paused since before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, U.S. State Department spokespers…
Epstein accuser Giuffre ends defamation lawsuit against Harvard’s Dershowitz
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) – Virginia Giuffre, one of dozens of women who accused Jeffrey Epstein of sexual misconduct, on Tuesday dropped her lawsuit claiming Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz was among the men with whom Epste…
South Africa’s new ground station to help NASA track space flights
By Wendell Roelf MATJIESFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) – A new deep-space ground station being built in South Africa’s semi-desert Karoo region will come online by 2025 to help track history-making NASA missions to the moon and beyond, space agency of…
Election Day fires in Mississippi investigated as possible arson
By Rich McKay (Reuters) – An arson investigation was underway on Tuesday after seven fires erupted overnight at two churches, a gas station and four other buildings near Mississippi’s Jackson State University, officials told local media. Video footage …
Migrant charity ship spurned by Italy heads to France
By Alvise Armellini and Angelo Amante ROME (Reuters) -A migrant rescue ship with more than 200 people on board headed to France on Tuesday after Italy’s new right-wing government refused it to dock at one of its ports though it allowed another charity …
COP27: What they are saying at the climate summit
(Reuters) – World leaders, policymakers and delegates from nearly 200 countries are in Egypt at the COP27 U.N. climate summit, which delegates kicked off with a deal to discuss compensating poor nations for mounting damage linked to global warming. Her…
Lawsuit claiming Skittles are unfit to eat is dismissed
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – A California man who claimed Skittles are “unfit for human consumption” because they contained a known toxin has dismissed his federal lawsuit against Mars Inc, the candy maker. Jenile Thames voluntarily dismissed his ca…