By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Stellantis unit FCA US will pay $5.6 million to resolve a California investigation into violations of air quality regulations, the state said on Thursday. The California Air Resources Board (CARB) said the 30,6…
Harvard loses money in 2022 fiscal year as tumbling stocks hurt endowments
By Svea Herbst-Bayliss NEW YORK (Reuters) – Harvard University’s endowment fund, the world’s largest university endowment, lost money during the last year, marking a dramatic U-turn from the previous year’s double-digit gains. Rattled by tumbling globa…
Florida jury spares Parkland school gunman from death penalty
(Reuters) -A Florida jury on Thursday decided to spare Nikolas Cruz, the gunman who killed 17 people in 2018 at a high school in the city of Parkland, from the death penalty, instead calling for life in prison without possibility of parole. Some family…
U.S. Supreme Court rebuffs Novartis, allows generic versions of MS drug
By Blake Brittain WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday turned down Novartis’ bid to block the launch of generic versions of the company’s blockbuster multiple sclerosis drug Gilenya in a dispute with China’s HEC Pharm Co Ltd and oth…
U.S. lawmakers made urgent pleas for help during Jan. 6 riot, video shows
By Moira Warburton and Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and other top lawmakers urgently dialed military officials and White House staff seeking help during the Jan. 6, 2021, assa…
U.S. House committee plans vote to subpoena former President Trump
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol said on Thursday it planned to vote on whether to subpoena Donald Trump, the Republican former president it holds responsible for f…
Two Connecticut police officers shot dead, one wounded in ambush
By Brendan O’Brien (Reuters) -Two police officers in central Connecticut were killed and another wounded by a gunman who lured them to a residence with a fake 911 call and opened fire, state police said on Thursday, adding the suspect also died in the …
Ban on guns with serial numbers removed is unconstitutional -U.S. judge
By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) -A federal judge in West Virginia has ruled that a federal ban on possessing a gun with its serial number removed is unconstitutional, the first such ruling since the U.S. Supreme Court dramatically expanded gun rights in J…
We will not be intimidated by Russia’s nuclear threats, NATO tells Moscow
By Philip Blenkinsop, Sabine Siebold and Phil Stewart BRUSSELS (Reuters) -NATO will closely monitor Russia’s upcoming nuclear exercise but not be cowed into dropping support for Ukraine by Moscow’s veiled nuclear threats, the alliance’s chief said on T…
Wall Street rallies, technicals help market rebound
By Caroline Valetkevitch NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. stocks ended sharply higher on Thursday as investors pulled back from bearish bets after a disappointing consumer prices report and as technical support helped drive a rebound. Energy and financials le…