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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – United Airlines said on Thursday it will temporarily cut some flights at three airports in the New York and Washington, D.C., areas after the Federal Aviation Administration gave carriers permission to cancel some flights this summer because of an air traffic controller shortage. United said it would reduce some flight frequencies at New Jersey’s Newark International Airport, New York’s LaGuardia Airport and Washington’s Reagan National Airport this […]

By Cheney Orr and Brad Brooks NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) -Republicans who control the Tennessee House of Representatives voted on Thursday to expel Representative Justin Jones, the first of three Democratic members facing expulsion for their role in a gun control demonstration at the statehouse last week. Republican Representatives Andrew Farmer, Gino Bulso, and Bud Hulsey filed three resolutions on Monday to expel their Democratic colleagues and all three resolutions have […]

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Jes Staley, the former JPMorgan Chase & Co private banking chief, wants a U.S. judge to sever the bank’s lawsuit against him for concealing what he knew about Jeffrey Epstein from other lawsuits over JPMorgan’s ties to the late financier. In a letter filed on Thursday in federal court in Manhattan, Staley also asked to delay the scheduled Oct. 23 trial to March 2024, saying the […]

By Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A flurry of recent state bills targeting LGBTQ kids and gender affirming care for youth sets a dangerous precedent, the White House said Thursday, while encouraging protests. “We are so proud of the kids across this country who have organized protests and school walkouts to tell the politicians in their states to stop this legislative bullying,” Karine Jean-Pierre, the first openly gay White House […]

(Reuters) -Tesla Inc on Thursday nominated former Chief Technology Officer JB Straubel to the electric-vehicle maker’s board. The company made a proxy filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission listing four Tesla proposals and one from a shareholder regarding a key-person risk report that the board advises voting against. Straubel would succeed Hiromichi Mizuno, who will not stand for re-election. The 2023 annual meeting of stockholders will be held […]

PARIS (Reuters) – Forward Kylian Mbappe has criticised Paris St Germain after they featured him in a video to promote season ticket sales, without informing him how the interview would be used. The video released by PSG on Wednesday has snippets from an interview with Mbappe, in which he talks about the club and its supporters. It links to the ticketing section on the club’s website. “I’ve just taken part […]

By Frank Pingue AUGUSTA, Georgia (Reuters) – Norway’s Viktor Hovland fired his lowest score in a major to grab the Masters clubhouse lead on Thursday while Tiger Woods mostly struggled and tournament favourites Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy went out with the late starters. Hovland, who stood out from the field as much for his play as the bold floral pattern on his shirt, fired a bogey-free seven-under-par 65 in […]

(Reuters) -Tesla Inc on Thursday nominated former Chief Technology Officer JB Straubel to the electric-vehicle maker’s board. The company made a proxy filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission listing four Tesla proposals and one from a shareholder regarding a key-person risk report that the board advises voting against. Straubel would succeed Hiromichi Mizuno, who will not stand for re-election. The 2023 annual meeting of stockholders will be held […]

By Steve Stecklow, Waylon Cunningham and Hyunjoo Jin LONDON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Tesla Inc assures its millions of electric car owners that their privacy “is and will always be enormously important to us.” The cameras it builds into vehicles to assist driving, it notes on its website, are “designed from the ground up to protect your privacy.” But between 2019 and 2022, groups of Tesla employees privately shared via an […]