By Rachel More and Paul Carrel BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany can weather a winter gas shortage caused by Russia’s war on Ukraine provided companies and households pull together, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Tuesday ahead of a meeting of EU ministers div…
Carbon monoxide leak at Pennsylvania daycare sends children to hospital
By Rich McKay (Reuters) – A carbon monoxide leak sent dozens of children and staffers at a Pennsylvania daycare center to local hospitals on Tuesday in an evacuation that drew every ambulance in the city of Allentown to the scene, authorities said on T…
Exclusive-U.S. finds new quality problems at Lilly drug factory
By Dan Levine and Marisa Taylor (Reuters) – U.S. drug inspectors recently recorded several new quality- control problems at an Eli Lilly and Co plant that is already the subject of a federal investigation over manufacturing lapses, according to a gover…
Iranian journalist who broke news on Mahsa Amini pays heavy price
By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI (Reuters) – Niloofar Hamedi, an Iranian journalist specialising in women’s rights, got away with hard-hitting stories for years – until the day she took a photo of Mahsa Amini’s parents hugging each other in a Tehran hospital whe…
Who are the Oath Keepers on trial for the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol attack?
By Chris Gallagher and Sarah N. Lynch (Reuters) -Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and four other defendants linked to the far-right group are on trial for charges of seditious conspiracy and other felonies arising from the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the…
U.S. Supreme Court rebuffs fetal personhood appeal
By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to decide whether fetuses are entitled to constitutional rights in light of its June ruling overturning the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that had legalized abortion nationwide, steering…
U.S. Supreme Court backs Republican in Pennsylvania ballots case
By Andrew Chung WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with an unsuccessful Republican candidate for a judgeship in Pennsylvania and threw out a lower court’s ruling that had allowed the counting of mail-in ballots in the race t…
Biden’s labor rule to shake up gig economy that relies on contractors
By Daniel Wiessner, Nandita Bose and David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Labor proposed a rule on Tuesday that would make it more difficult for companies to treat workers as independent contractors, a change that is expected t…
U.S. government back and forth on ‘gig’ workers, contractors
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Labor on Tuesday unveiled a proposal that would make it harder for companies to treat workers as independent contractors, potentially upending the gig economy and other industries that rely heavily on contr…
Wall St opens lower on earnings anxiety
(Reuters) – U.S. stock indexes opened lower on Tuesday as investors awaited the earnings season to assess the impact of rising interest rates and inflation on corporate profit, while a rise in shares of drugmaker Amgen limited declines on the Dow. The …