By Douglas Gillison (Reuters) -A special committee will oversee a review of alleged toxic workplace culture and sexual harassment at the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp but the agency’s chief will not be involved, the top banking regulator announced on Tuesday, as it faced a reckoning following reports in the Wall Street Journal. FDIC Chair …
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By Clark Mindock (Reuters) – A U.S. jury has ordered Bayer’s Monsanto to pay $165 million to employees of a school northeast of Seattle who claimed chemicals made by the company called polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, leaked from light fixtures and got them sick. The Washington state court jury found the company liable for selling …
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(Reuters) -At least one person was killed and three people were injured on Monday in a shooting at a Walmart store in Beavercreek, Ohio,WHIO television reported, citing its reporters on the scene, as witnesses told media a man opened fire with an assault rifle. Three patients from the shooting being treated at a nearby trauma …
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By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Rapper A$AP Rocky, the romantic partner of recording star Rihanna and father of her two sons, was ordered on Monday to stand trial in Los Angeles on two felony counts of assault with a semi-automatic weapon. Rocky, 35, whose given name is Rakim Mayers, is accused of pointing …
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By Rajesh Kumar Singh CHICAGO (Reuters) – Andrew Watterson knows the cost of flight disruptions. The chief operating officer of Southwest Airlines found himself in the eye of a storm after a blizzard last December forced the company to cancel almost 17,000 flights, disrupting travel plans for about 2 million customers. With this week’s U.S. …
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By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton accused Pfizer and its supplier Tris Pharma of providing children’s ADHD medicine that it knew might be ineffective to the state’s Medicaid insurance program for low-income people, in a lawsuit unsealed on Monday. The lawsuit, filed in Harrison County, Texas District Court, alleges that Pfizer …
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By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden pardoned two enormous white-plumed turkeys from Minnesota on Monday, granting Liberty and Bell freedom from Thanksgiving dinner tables as Americans prepared for their annual feasts. With schoolchildren squealing in delight from the audience on the South Lawn of the White House, Biden took part in …
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By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden turned 81 on Monday, a milestone that drew attention to his status as the oldest person ever to occupy the Oval Office, with opinion polls showing Americans worried he is too old for the post he is seeking re-election to. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre …
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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. Senate panel on Monday announced an investigation into airline fees for baggage, seat selection, ticket changes and other services, demanding justifications from the CEOs of five major carriers for these charges that generate billions of dollars in annual revenue for them. Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal, who chairs the …
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By Jarrett Renshaw (Reuters) -The White House on Monday joined the social media platform Threads, the Meta rival to Elon Musk’s X social media platform. The move, which the White House says was in the process for several weeks, comes just days after the White House and others criticized Musk for the amplification and endorsement …
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