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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -American Airlines said Monday it will join other major carriers in temporarily cutting some New York City area flights this summer after the Federal Aviation Administration temporarily relaxed some minimum flight requirements. American is reducing the frequency of flights between LaGuardia Airport and Dallas, Miami, Kansas City and St. Louis as well as the Newark Liberty International Airport-Chicago route. Last month, the FAA agreed to […]

By Ismail Shakil OTTAWA (Reuters) – NASA on Monday said Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen will join a lunar flyby mission expected to take off for the moon in 2024 as part of an expedition that will make the former fighter pilot the first Canadian to explore beyond earth’s orbit. Hansen, 47, will be joined by three U.S. astronauts for a historic crewed mission to the moon that will be the […]

(Reuters) – The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) on Monday announced the marketing process for the about $60 billion loan portfolio retained in receivership following the failure of Signature Bank. The FDIC expects to begin its marketing of the retained loan portfolio of the former Signature Bank later this summer, it said in a statement. The portfolio is comprised primarily of commercial real estate (CRE) loans, commercial loans and a […]

By Lizbeth Diaz CIUDAD JUAREZ, MEXICO (Reuters) -Eduard Caraballo screamed for help. Thick suffocating smoke was filling the cell where he was held with over 60 other migrants in northern Mexico, but there was no way out. The single door was locked shut. “We screamed for them to open the cell door, but no one helped us,” Caraballo, 26, said through tears during a phone interview from his hospital bed. […]

By Ted Hesson and Michael Martina WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A top U.S. law enforcement official on Wednesday said he sees no link between a rise in Chinese migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border and illicit fentanyl entering the United States, in response to questioning by a Republican lawmaker. Steven Cagen, an assistant director with the investigative arm of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said during a congressional hearing that his agency […]

By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) -A federal jury in San Francisco on Monday ordered Tesla Inc to pay about $3.2 million to a Black former employee after the electric-vehicle maker was found to have failed to prevent severe racial harassment at its flagship assembly plant in California. The verdict came after a week-long trial in the 2017 lawsuit by plaintiff Owen Diaz, who in 2021 was awarded $137 million by a […]

By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) -A federal jury in San Francisco on Monday ordered Tesla Inc to pay about $3.2 million to a Black former employee after the electric-vehicle maker was found to have failed to prevent severe racial harassment at its flagship assembly plant in California. The verdict came after a week-long trial in the 2017 lawsuit by plaintiff Owen Diaz, who in 2021 was awarded $137 million by a […]

FRANKFURT (Reuters) – German pharmaceutical group Bayer will invest 60 million euros ($65.44 million) into projects in Ukraine, German vice chancellor Robert Habeck said on Monday on television. In an interview with “ZDF heute journal” from Kiev, Habeck named projects for Ukraine including Bayer’s investment and expanding capacities in the production of building materials, without giving further details. Turning to the future security of energy supply, Habeck, who is also […]

By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) -A federal jury in San Francisco on Monday ordered Tesla Inc to pay about $3.2 million to a Black former employee after the electric-vehicle maker was found to have failed to prevent severe racial harassment at its flagship assembly plant in California. The verdict came after a week-long trial in the 2017 lawsuit by plaintiff Owen Diaz, who in 2021 was awarded $137 million by a […]