By Nate Raymond (Reuters) – A U.S. judge at the urging of environmental groups has thrown out an assessment by a federal agency governing how endangered and threatened marine species should be protected from oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman in Greenbelt, Maryland, on Monday ruled the…
By Ananya Mariam Rajesh (Reuters) – CoverGirl parent Coty missed fourth-quarter revenue expectations on Tuesday, impacted by its divestiture of Lacoste fragrance license and controlled orders from cautious retailers, which weighed on growth in prestige and mass-market perfumes. Its decision to sell the Lacoste license back to Lacoste resulted in a 2% impact on net…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden approved in March a highly classified nuclear strategic plan that for the first time reorients Washington’s deterrent strategy on China’s expansion of its nuclear arsenal, the New York Times reported on Tuesday. The White House never announced that Biden had approved the revised strategy, titled the “Nuclear Employment…
By Jeff Mason and Nandita Bose CHICAGO (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris’ election effort has raised around $500 million since she became the Democratic presidential candidate, sources told Reuters, an unprecedented money haul that reflects donor enthusiasm going into the Nov. 5 election. Four sources familiar with the fundraising effort told Reuters that…
By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Four years after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell made fighting unemployment a bigger priority during the COVID-19 pandemic, he faces a pivotal test of that commitment amid rising joblessness, mounting evidence inflation is under control, and a benchmark interest rate that is still the highest in a quarter of…
By Gram Slattery and David Shepardson YORK, Pennsylvania (Reuters) -Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump pledged on Monday to rescind a Biden administration rule limiting power plant pollution, and reiterated a promise to block Nippon Steel’s planned purchase of U.S. Steel. In the most detailed economic remarks he has offered on the campaign trail so far,…
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A four-person crew for SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission arrived in Florida on Monday ahead of their Aug. 26 launch to space for a mission that includes the first privately managed spacewalk, a risky endeavor only government astronauts have done in the past. The crew – a billionaire entrepreneur, a…
KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s military said its troops were subjected to dozens of attacks by Russian forces on Monday around Toretsk and Pokrovsk, two settlements in eastern Ukraine where Moscow is gaining ground against embattled Ukrainian forces. In a statement, the military said Russian troops attacked Ukrainian defenders 21 times over the course of Monday…
By Allison Lampert and David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Boeing’s new CEO Kelly Ortberg said on Thursday he would be based in the planemaker’s birthplace Seattle, moving closer to the factory floor to rein in a safety crisis. Ortberg’s confirmation of earlier reports that he would move to Puget Sound, Washington, rather than Boeing’s corporate headquarters…
(Reuters) – Online travel agency Expedia beat analysts’ expectations on Thursday for second-quarter profit, helped by sustained demand for international travel, sending its shares up 7% after the bell. “The travel environment was healthy in the second quarter and like the last few quarters, we saw strong ongoing demand internationally relative to the US,” CEO…
