WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States has not seen a shift from previous U.S. elections in Russia’s preference for the winner of the 2024 presidential vote, a U.S. intelligence official said on Tuesday, indicating that Moscow favors Republican Donald Trump. The official, briefing reporters on U.S. election security, did not name the former president and presumptive…
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The National Transportation Safety Board said on Tuesday it is seeking to determine when structural damage occurred to the rudder system on a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 MAX that rolled in May. The roll is one of a series of recent serious safety incidents involving Southwest flights that are…
STUTTGART (Reuters) – Mercedes-Benz inaugurated a development and production centre for battery cells on Monday at its headquarters in Germany, in a move to take greater control of the chemical composition and industrial manufacturing of its batteries. The location, dubbed “Mercedes-Benz eCampus”, will make tens of thousands of battery cells a year in a 10,000…
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Boeing is in talks with the U.S. Defense Department over how the planemaker’s planned guilty plea could affect its extensive government contracts, a person briefed on the matter said. Late on Sunday, the Justice Department said in a court filing that Boeing had agreed to plead guilty to a criminal…
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Federal Aviation Administration said on Monday it is requiring inspections of 2,600 Boeing 737 airplanes because passenger oxygen masks could fail during an emergency. The FAA said it was requiring the inspections of 737 MAX and NG airplanes after multiple reports of passenger service unit oxygen generators shifting out…
TORONTO (Reuters) – TD Bank’s chief compliance officer has left the bank, according to a memo sent internally, at a time the Canadian lender faces U.S. regulators and the Justice Department in a probe related to its anti-money laundering program. Monica Kowal, who joined the bank in 2017, left the company this week, and will…
(Reuters) -Amazon.com said on Wednesday it would discontinue its security robot, Astro for Business, for small- and medium-sized businesses as it shifts its focus to household robots. The e-commerce giant initially launched the canine-like robot for household use in 2021. Astro for Business was launched last November for a range of customers including retail, manufacturing,…
By Ismail Shakil and Katharine Jackson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The White House dismissed as “absolutely false” a New York Times report on Wednesday that said U.S. President Joe Biden had told an ally he was weighing whether to continue his bid for reelection in November. The report was based on a conversation the Times said Biden…
By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) -A federal judge in Texas on Wednesday partially blocked a U.S. Federal Trade Commission rule from taking effect that would ban agreements commonly signed by workers not to join their employers’ rivals or launch competing businesses. U.S. District Judge Ada Brown in Dallas said in a written decision the FTC, which…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Reed Hastings, a major Democratic Party donor and a co-founder of streaming platform Netflix, has called for Democratic U.S. President Joe Biden to step aside as a presidential candidate following his debate performance last week, the New York Times reported on Wednesday. “Biden needs to step aside to allow a vigorous Democratic…
