US to provide nearly $200 million to contain bird flu spread on dairy farms
By Leah Douglas WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Biden administration said on Friday it will provide nearly $200 million to fight the spread of avian flu among dairy cows, in the government's latest bid to contain outbreaks that have fueled concerns abou...
May 10, 2024
McDonald's to launch $5 meal deal to lure back customers, Bloomberg News reports
(Reuters) -McDonald's is preparing to launch a $5 meal deal at its U.S. restaurants to lure more inflation-hit customers back to its chains, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing a person familiar with the matter. The deal could include a McChicken...
May 10, 2024
Trump ally Steve Bannon loses appeal of conviction for defying Jan. 6 probe
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. federal appeals court on Friday upheld the conviction of Steve Bannon, a former top adviser to Donald Trump, for defying a subpoena from the congressional panel that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Cap...
May 10, 2024
Death toll from floods in southern Brazil hits 113
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - The death toll from heavy rains in Brazil's Rio Grande do Sul state has climbed to 113, local civil defense said on Friday, up from 107 in the previous day, while another 146 people were still unaccounted for. Storms and flood...
May 10, 2024
Explainer-US agency to unveil plan to ease power transmission crunch
By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is expected on Monday to issue a final rule to address the crunch in U.S. electricity transmission as the grid struggles to connect enormous amounts of clea...
May 10, 2024
Trump prosecutors prepare to call final witnesses in hush money trial
By Luc Cohen and Jody Godoy NEW YORK (Reuters) - Donald Trump is set to return to court Friday after porn star Stormy Daniels' lurid testimony about her alleged sexual encounter with him, as prosecutors prepare to call their final witnesses in the ...
May 10, 2024
Elderly climate activists damage Magna Carta case at British Library
LONDON (Reuters) - Two climate protesters aged 82 and 85 smashed parts of the reinforced case holding an original text of the Magna Carta in the British Library in London on Friday before the pair - one an Anglican priest - were stopped by security...
May 10, 2024
Education board in Virginia votes to restore schools' Confederate names
By Evelyn Hockstein and Julia Harte WOODSTOCK, Virginia (Reuters) - The education board for Shenandoah County, Virginia, voted early on Friday to restore Confederate generals' names to two public schools in the predominantly white, rural and solidl...
May 10, 2024
A whale makes a comeback off Argentina's coast 100 years after vanishing
By Anna Portella BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Giant blue-grey sei whales that vanished from Argentina's Patagonian coast a century ago due to hunting are starting to flourish once again, demonstrating how species can recover when measures to protect th...
May 10, 2024
Japan weather bureau says 90% chance of El Nino ending by May
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's weather bureau said on Friday there was a 90% chance that the El Nino phenomenon will dissipate by the end of May, while there was a 60% chance of the La Nina phenomenon occurring in the months up until November. El Nino i...
May 10, 2024
US lawmakers unveil bill to make it easier to restrict exports of AI models
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bipartisan group of lawmakers unveiled a bill late Wednesday that would make it easier for the Biden administration to impose export controls on AI models, in a bid to safeguard the prized U.S. technology against foreign ba...
May 10, 2024
US Senate passes sweeping aviation safety, consumer bill
By David Shepardson and David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Senate late on Thursday overwhelmingly passed a broad aviation bill to boost air traffic controller staffing, increase funding to avert runway close-call incidents and speed refunds fo...
May 10, 2024
US to post influenza A wastewater data online to assist bird flu probe, official says
By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) -The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is planning to post data on influenza A found in wastewater in a public dashboard possibly as soon as Friday that could offer new clues into the outbreak...
May 09, 2024
US civil rights groups sue Iowa over immigrant arrest law
By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) - Civil rights groups filed a lawsuit on Thursday seeking to block an Iowa law authorizing the arrest and prosecution of people who have returned to the U.S. after being deported, as a growing number of Republican-led s...
May 09, 2024
US asylum change aims to speed up some rejections at Mexico border
By Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A new U.S. asylum change proposed on Thursday aims to more quickly reject asylum seekers caught illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border if they pose certain criminal and national security concerns, a limited m...
May 09, 2024
US to determine cause of Southwest, FedEx jetliners near-miss incident
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The National Transportation Safety Board will hold a June 6 hearing to determine the probable cause of a February 2023 near- miss incident involving a FedEx cargo plane and a Southwest Airlines jet in Aust...
May 09, 2024
Tesla interfered with union organizing at New York plant, US agency claims
By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) - Tesla has been accused by a U.S. labor agency of discouraging workers at a Buffalo, New York assembly plant from union organizing by barring them from using phones and other devices, an agency spokeswoman said on Thur...
May 09, 2024
US House panel to hold hearing on Maryland bridge collapse
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee will hold a May 15 hearing on the federal government's response to the collapse of a Baltimore bridge. The Dali cargo ship crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge o...
May 09, 2024
Hunter Biden loses bid to dismiss gun charges, clearing way for June trial
By Tom Hals WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) - A federal appeals court panel rejected a bid by U.S. President Joe Biden's son to dismiss criminal gun charges, clearing the way for Hunter Biden's June 3 trial, a first for the child of a sitting presid...
May 09, 2024
Comic book gives the lowdown on Janet Jackson's life and career
By Alicia Powell NEW YORK (Reuters) - A new comic book will chart the highs and lows of American pop star Janet Jackson's career - from her upbringing in the Jackson superstar family, to "that" Super Bowl incident, to her return to the road and suc...
May 09, 2024
US Supreme Court reinforces police power in seized vehicle ruling
By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday reinforced the power of law enforcement authorities to retain seized property belonging to people not charged with a crime, ruling in favor of Alabama officials who were sued ...
May 09, 2024
Family of US airman killed by Florida deputy demanding release of body-cam video
(Reuters) - A Florida sheriff's deputy who fatally shot a Black airman over the weekend may have entered the wrong apartment in respond to a disturbance call, according to a civil rights attorney who is demanding release of body-camera video showin...
May 09, 2024
Donald Trump's youngest son Barron to represent Florida at Republican convention
By Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Donald Trump's youngest son, Barron Trump, will be one of the delegates representing Florida at the Republican National Convention in July, a notable move given that he has kept largely out of the public eye ...
May 09, 2024
25 US states challenge EPA power plant emissions rule in court
By Clark Mindock (Reuters) -A group of 25 Republican state attorneys general sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday seeking to block a landmark rule requiring sweeping reductions in carbon emissions from existing coal-fired power pla...
May 09, 2024
El Nino to end by June, La Nina seen in second half of 2024, says U.S. forecaster
(Reuters) - The El Nino weather pattern should fade out by June but could be replaced by the La Nina phenomenon by the second half of the year, a U.S. government forecaster said on Thursday. There is a 49% chance that the La Nina weather pattern ma...
May 09, 2024