All posts published in June 2014
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Broadcast and cable TV are not dead yet. In a decision that could crimp consumers’ hopes to cut the cord from their cable operators, the U.S Supreme Court said Aereo Inc, a video streaming service backed by media mogul Barry Diller, viol... More »
NOGALES Arizona (Reuters) – Arizona’s Republican Governor Jan Brewer said on Wednesday that as a mother it broke her heart to see the plight of illegal immigrant children, and that she blamed the federal government for failing to send a message that the U.S. b... More »
(Reuters) – San Francisco Giants pitcher Tim Lincecum threw a no-hitter against the San Diego Padres for the second time in less than a year with a masterful performance in a 4-0 home victory on Wednesday. The 30-year-old right-hander struck out six and yielde... More »
SYDNEY (Reuters) – The dollar languished near one-month lows against a basket of major currencies early on Thursday, having been knocked back hard after revised U.S. growth figures for the first quarter came in shockingly weak. The dollar index .DXY fell as fa... More »
WELLINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. chipmaker and technology company Intel Corp said on Thursday it has invested in a New Zealand company producing software for use in sports and exercise sectors. Intel Capital, the corporation’s investment arm, has bought into the pr... More »
(Reuters) – A Nebraska lawyer is trying to breathe life into an old-fashioned antitrust movement with a campaign for the U.S. Senate based partly on breaking apart the country’s biggest banks and blocking consolidation among meatpackers. In a throwback to an e... More »
(Reuters) – San Francisco Giants pitcher Tim Lincecum threw a no-hitter against the San Diego Padres in a masterful 4-0 home victory on Wednesday. Lincecum struck out six and yielded one walk in dominating the Padres, the team he also hurled his first career n... More »
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – R&B singer Chris Brown rejected a no-jail plea deal on Wednesday for a suspected sidewalk punchup and will go to trial in September, the latest legal hurdle for the Grammy-winning performer. Brown, 25, rejected a plea accord that would h... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. stock investors ignored weak economic data and pushed equities higher on Wednesday, as drugmakers’ shares rose and a Supreme Court ruling lifted major broadcaster stocks, while German bond yields hit the year’s low on safe-haven bids.... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. pop artist Jeff Koons’ retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art brings his work full-circle because an exhibit at the New York landmark 40 years ago set him off on his groundbreaking career. Koons is considered one of the w... More »
(Reuters) – Eli Wallach, an early practitioner of “method acting” who made a lasting impression as the scuzzy bandit Tuco in the film “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,” died on Tuesday at the age of 98. Wallach appeared on the big screen well into his 90s in su... More »
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – In 1993 at the age of 12, Jose Antonio Vargas said goodbye to his mother and boarded a plane in the Philippines to join his grandparents in California. It would be four more years before he would learn that he was in the United States i... More »
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Pop singer Lana Del Rey scored her first No. 1 album on the weekly U.S. Billboard 200 album chart on Wednesday, while British newcomer Sam Smith landed at No. 2 with his debut record. Del Rey’s “Ultraviolence,” her second full-length st... More »
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The organizers of the Academy Awards are putting rules in place for next year to prevent any missteps in the film campaign process, targeting the music categories. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, hosts of the annual Osc... More »
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – White House changes to proposed rules for tobacco products significantly weakened language detailing health risks from cigars and deleted restrictions that might have prevented online sales of e-cigarettes, published documents show. The ... More »
(Reuters) – (This June 24 story has been corrected in paragraph 5 to say Norman instead of Normal, to drop extraneous word “the”. Also adds dropped word “of” in penultimate paragraph.) Chicago has been selected by “Star Wars” filmmaker George Lucas as the home... More »
(Reuters) – Television journalist Diane Sawyer will be stepping down as the anchor of the nightly newscast “ABC World News,” but will continue working for the network, doing specials and interviews, ABC News President James Goldston announced on Wednesday. Saw... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister David Cameron on Wednesday apologized to parliament for hiring Andy Coulson, his ex-media chief, after Coulson was found guilty of being part of a phone-hacking conspiracy. “I take full responsibility for employing And... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – The jury in Britain’s phone-hacking trial was discharged on Wednesday after failing to reach agreement on whether Andy Coulson, the former media adviser to Prime Minister David Cameron, was guilty of authorizing illegal payments. Coulson, wh... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – As tension over inequality simmers, persistent cash hoarding by multinationals and the super-rich may be one measure of how seriously attempts at remedial action are being taken. The political heat over soaring income and wealth gaps in the ... More »
HONG KONG (Reuters) – “Transformers: Age of Extinction” will debut in Hong Kong cinemas on Thursday, where audiences are waiting to see giant shape shifting aliens try to destroy their city. The film, the fourth based on the Transformers franchise, is expected... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – Rebekah Brooks, the former boss of Rupert Murdoch’s British newspaper arm, was acquitted on Tuesday of orchestrating a campaign to hack into phones and bribe officials in a case that has shaken the British political establishment. A jury at ... More »
PARIS (Reuters) – Billionaire French businessman Vincent Bollore gave the first hints of his strategy for Vivendi as he took over as chairman on Tuesday, saying he saw the potential to grow its media assets while also paying a healthy dividend. Vivendi, one of... More »
(Reuters) – More than 18.2 million U.S. viewers watched the United States tie Portugal during a World Cup soccer match on Sunday night, making it the most-viewed soccer match by a U.S. audience. ESPN, which is owned by Walt Disney Co, has been setting U.S. vie... More »
CHARLESTON S.C. (Reuters) – In the bowels of what was once a jail in Charleston, South Carolina, Cody James, 22, is carving limestone blocks into a mantelpiece for one of the city’s historic homes. The 19th-century jail that housed Union prisoners during the C... More »
BERLIN (Reuters) – An American artist is attempting to create a photographic portrait of Berlin that will capture the city over 100 years in a single shot from pinhole cameras in 100 secret locations. Conceptual artist Jonathon Keats’s ultra long-exposure proj... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – (The writer is a Reuters contributor. The opinions expressed are his own.) When Linda Mercier’s son Sam was around two years old, she knew something wasn’t right. Sam was becoming withdrawn, not speaking or playing with other kids, and foc... More »
CHICAGO (Reuters) – What are the best and worst places to stay healthy as you age? For answers, take out a map and follow the Mississippi River from north to south. The healthiest people over 65 are in Minnesota, the sickest in Mississippi. That’s among the fi... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – Euro zone countries still have much work to do to cut debt and boost growth and their credit ratings are unlikely to rise until they get their economies into better shape, a senior Standard & Poor’s official said on Tuesday. S&P’s head of so... More »
HELSINKI (Reuters) – Alexander Stubb, a staunchly pro-European free marketeer, took over as Finnish prime minister on Tuesday hoping to kickstart the euro zone country’s sputtering economy before a general election scheduled for April 2015. Stubb, a former EU ... More »
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Asian shares ticked higher on Tuesday as improved manufacturing data from China, Japan and the United States augured well for global growth, despite a disappointing result from the euro zone. After a sluggish start the majority of markets ac... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Asian shares were subdued on Tuesday while major currencies kept to recent snug ranges after a surprisingly soft reading on euro zone manufacturing took the shine off better data from China, Japan and the United States. Moves were marginal... More »
CAPE CANAVERAL Fla. (Reuters) – Bedeviled by a spate of technical problems, Space Exploration Technologies on Monday said it will suspend launch attempts of its next Falcon 9 rocket until early July. The privately owned company, also known as SpaceX, has been ... More »
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama on Monday directed the federal government to give workers more leeway in determining their schedules, part of his goal to make U.S. workplaces more family-friendly – and a broad pitch to Democratic voters ahead of ... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – Nestle said on Monday it was working on a new research project that could one day lead to the development of made-to-measure vitamin combinations tailored to an individual’s needs. Nestle, the world’s largest food group, said its Institute o... More »
(Reuters) – AstraZeneca Plc’s experimental ovarian cancer drug, olaparib, showed an 83 percent reduction in the risk of disease progression, but a U.S. Food and Drug Administration staff review has questioned whether the result could be reproduced. The company... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – European shares fell on Monday after euro zone business activity data showed growth slowing, with France a notable laggard, in contrast with upbeat numbers from China that lifted Asian shares and the Australian dollar. Brent crude oil prices... More »
TOKYO (Reuters) – Manufacturing in China and Japan returned to growth in June after months of decline but an unexpectedly sharp fall in French business activity dragged on the wider euro zone, surveys showed on Monday. Beijing’s targeted stimulus measures and ... More »
CAIRO (Reuters) – An Egyptian judge sentenced three Al Jazeera journalists on Monday to seven years in jail after finding them guilty on charges including helping a “terrorist organization” by publishing lies. The three include Australian Peter Greste, Al Jaze... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – The Australian and New Zealand dollars both jumped about half a percent on Monday after a survey pointed to the first expansion in six months by China’s manufacturing, a sector that is crucial to world growth. [ID:nL4N0P10WO] The Canadian do... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – European stocks fell on Monday after euro zone business activity data showed growth slowing, with France a notable laggard, in contrast with upbeat numbers from China that lifted Asian shares and the Australian dollar. Brent crude oil prices... More »
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry landed in Baghdad on Monday to press Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to form a more inclusive government in response to a Sunni insurgency that has swept much of northern and western Iraq. Kerry’s visit came... More »
MOSCOW/KIEV (Reuters) – Fighting flared between Ukrainian and pro-Moscow separatist forces, both sides reported on Sunday, further straining a unilateral ceasefire declared by Ukraine as Russian President Vladimir Putin pressed Kiev to talk to the rebels. Puti... More »
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – The Indian government has not received any communication from Switzerland about “black money” suspected to be stashed in Swiss banks, India’s finance minister Arun Jaitley said on Monday. Jaitley’s comments followed media reports that Swi... More »
RAMALLAH West Bank (Reuters) – Israel’s army said it detained another 37 Palestinians overnight as it searched for three missing teenagers and extended a crackdown on the Hamas Islamist group it accuses of kidnapping them. There were no reports of clashes betw... More »
TOKYO/DETROIT (Reuters) – A year ago, Japan’s Takata Corp, the world’s second-largest maker of auto safety parts, believed it had finally contained a crisis more than a decade in the making. It was wrong. Japanese car makers including Honda Motor Co and Nissan... More »
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea summoned Japan’s envoy on Monday to protest against Tokyo’s review of a landmark 1993 apology to women, many Korean, forced to work as wartime sex slaves in Japanese military brothels, urging it to stop trying to whitewash history... More »
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is set to unveil measures ranging from phased corporate tax cuts and public pension reforms to proposed dance hall deregulation, but the latest salvo from his three-pronged strategy for economic revival may ... More »
LAHORE Pakistan (Reuters) – A prominent cleric landed in Pakistan on Monday after his plane was diverted from the capital Islamabad where his supporters clashed with police amid government concerns about the return of a man who describes himself as a revolutio... More »
SEOUL (Reuters) – A stand-off between South Korean troops and a conscript soldier who killed five comrades ended on Monday when the young recruit shot himself in an incident that has raised fresh questions over the country’s rules on compulsory military servic... More »
(Reuters) – French bank BNP Paribas SA BNPP.PA is likely to pay $8 billion to $9 billion as part of a potential settlement with U.S. authorities over violations of sanctions, according to a person familiar with the matter. U.S. authorities are probing whether ... More »
TOKYO (Reuters) – Manufacturing in China and Japan shrugged off months of decline and returned to growth in June as Beijing’s targeted stimulus measures and Japan’s improving labor market supported domestic demand in Asia’s two largest economies. External dema... More »
ZURICH (Reuters) – Swiss drugmaker Roche said it will partner with Inception Sciences Inc. and Versant Ventures on a new company to develop therapies for patients with multiple sclerosis. The move is part of the Basel-based firm’s efforts to diversify beyond i... More »
TOKYO (Reuters) – Honda Motor Co and Mazda Motor Corp said they are expanding last year’s massive recalls involving potentially explosive air bags supplied by Takata Corp, after a similar move by Toyota Motor Corp this month. Honda is recalling about 2.03 mill... More »
TOKYO (Reuters) – Asian stocks and the Australian dollar rose on Monday as upbeat news from China’s factory sector and fresh highs on Wall Street fuelled appetites for riskier assets, while crude oil held near nine-month highs as fighting in Iraq intensified. ... More »
(Reuters) – The independent directors of maverick retailer American Apparel Inc have rejected a demand to meet and reinstate ousted CEO Dov Charney on Monday, a source close to the matter said. The board last week stripped Charney of his titles of chief execut... More »
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – For decades, medical technology firms have searched for ways to let diabetics check blood sugar easily, with scant success. Now, the world’s largest mobile technology firms are getting in on the act. Apple Inc, Samsung Electronics Co ... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Australian dollar jumped to test its year-to-date peak on Monday after a Chinese manufacturing survey showed surprisingly big improvements. The Canadian dollar also hit a five-month high, building on to its 0.6 percent gain against the... More »
(Reuters) – Michael Phelps continued his return to competitive swimming with third place in the 200 meters individual medley at the Arena Grand Prix at Santa Clara on Sunday. Phelps, competing in the 200 medley for the first time since taking gold at the 2012 ... More »
(Reuters) – Oracle Corp is likely to buy Micros Systems in a $5 billion deal, expected to be announced as early as Monday morning, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing a person familiar with the matter. The takeover would value Micros at more than $67 a sh... More »
ATLANTA/CHICAGO (Reuters) – The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reassigned the director of the bioterror lab behind the potential anthrax exposure of dozens of scientists and staff, sources told Reuters, as the anthrax controversy intensifi... More »
(Reuters) – With one moment of genuine class at the very death, Portugal snatched victory from the grasp of the United States and kept their World Cup hopes alive on Sunday. If football was divided between “triers” and “flyers” then Juergen Klinsmann’s uber-fi... More »
(Reuters) – Michelle Wie finally lived up to the burden of expectation when she won her first major title with a clutch two-stroke victory at the U.S. Women’s Open in Pinehurst, North Carolina, on Sunday. More than a decade after becoming famous when she almos... More »
(Reuters) – Former New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez, who is in a Massachusetts jail awaiting trial on murder charges, was removed from his cell for a brief hospital visit over the weekend, a local TV station reported on Sunday. Hernandez was treated f... More »
MANAUS Brazil (Reuters) – Portuguese substitute Silvestre Varela scored deep into stoppage-time to secure a dramatic 2-2 draw with the United States in World Cup Group G on Sunday and keep his team’s hopes alive. Just as it looked as though the Americans had p... More »
(Reuters) – Kevin Streelman set a PGA Tour record when he birdied the final seven holes for an astonishing one-stroke victory at the Travelers Championship on Sunday. Streelman came from nowhere, one-putting the final 10 holes and storming home in 28 strokes o... More »
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. missile defense system managed by Boeing Co on Sunday hit a simulated enemy missile over the Pacific in the first successful intercept test of the program since 2008, the U.S. Defense Department said. The intercept will help val... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who came into office six months ago promising to take on economic inequality in the nation’s largest city, is now enlisting other big-city mayors to join in the fight. De Blasio and the mayor of Sacrame... More »
DALLAS (Reuters) – U.S. mayors on Sunday called for Congress to draw up bipartisan legislation to address a surge of illegal immigrants into the United States and asked for help to ease the resulting financial burden on local governments. The U.S. Conference o... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York Governor Andrew Cuomo threw his support behind U.S. Congressman Charlie Rangel’s re-election on Sunday, just two days before Democrats in Rangel’s Harlem and Bronx district vote on whether to give him a 23rd term. Rangel, who at 8... More »
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The newly elected No. 2 Republican in the House of Representatives said on Sunday he opposed renewing the charter for the U.S. Export-Import Bank, which helps finance exports of U.S. goods and services. Representative Kevin McCarthy, the... More »
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. missile defense system managed by Boeing Co on Sunday hit a simulated enemy missile over the Pacific in the first successful intercept test of the program since 2008, the U.S. Defense Department said. The successful intercept wi... More »
CAPE CANAVERAL Fla. (Reuters) – Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, postponed for a third time the launch of six commercial communication satellites from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, officials said on Sunday. Liftoff of the privately owned company’... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – Former European Ryder Cup player Edoardo Molinari qualified for next month’s British Open with a second-place finish at the Irish Open on Sunday. Italian Molinari, who along with brother Francesco was part of Europe’s thrilling 2010 triumph ... More »
(Reuters) – Google Inc’s Nest Labs will buy home-monitoring camera startup Dropcam for about $555 million in cash, technology blog Re/code reported on Friday, taking another step deeper into consumers’ homes. Nest and Dropcam confirmed the acquisition in separ... More »
LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK (Reuters) – “Think Like A Man Too”, a sequel to the 2012 comedy based on Steve Harvey’s book “Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man”, collected $30 million in ticket sales to lead the weekend box office, outdistancing last weekend’s top film, ... More »
(Reuters) – In staunchly conservative Oklahoma, three major candidates are running in Tuesday’s Republican primary for a U.S. Senate seat, two have a shot at winning and one is gathering attention because he is half black and half Native American. T.W. Shannon... More »
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The newly elected No. 2 Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives said on Sunday he would not rule out sending American troops to Iraq to help Baghdad in its fight against a Sunni insurgency. Representative Kevin McCarthy, who was ... More »
CAPE CANAVERAL Fla (Reuters) – Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, on Saturday delayed the planned launch of a Falcon 9 rocket carrying six communications satellites after cloudy skies socked in its Florida launch site. The privately owned company had r... More »
(Reuters) – The safety breach at a government lab that may have exposed 84 workers to live anthrax centered on a pivotal lapse in procedure: researchers working with the bacteria waited 24 hours to be sure they had killed the pathogens, half the time required ... More »
SALVADOR, Brazil, June 21 (Reuters) – The suspension of captain Robin van Persie for Monday’s World Cup Group B decider against Chile means the Netherlands will play an international without a player whose surname begins with ‘Van’ for the first time in almost... More »
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House on Friday stepped up efforts to slow the flow of illegal children into the country, expanding the government’s ability to process and deport people and announcing new funding to boost security in crime-plagued Central Ame... More »
(Reuters) – Google Inc is considering an investment in a new cable across the Pacific Ocean, the Wall Street Journal reported citing people familiar with the matter. The move comes as technology companies send an increasing amount of traffic across private net... More »
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – After winning over critics with the complex, dark family drama “Animal Kingdom” for his directorial debut, director David Michod wanted to pare things back to tell a simpler story about survival in his next film. “The Rover,” out in U.S... More »
(Reuters) – Japan’s clash against Ivory Coast was one of the most viewed games of the 2014 World Cup so far as television coverage shattered a host of records during the first round of group matches, FIFA said on Friday. As many as 34.1 million viewers in Japa... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. stocks rose on Friday, driving the Dow and the S&P 500 to close at record highs as the shares of 330 companies hit 52-week highs on the New York Stock Exchange. The S&P 500 scored its third record closing high in a row while the Dow s... More »
CAPE CANAVERAL Fla. (Reuters) – Space Exploration Technologies postponed Friday’s planned launch of a Falcon 9 rocket, which is slated to put six small satellites into orbit for Orbcomm Inc, which provides machine-to-machine communication services. The rocket ... More »
CHICAGO (Reuters) – U.S. authorities increased to 84 people their count of government workers potentially exposed to live anthrax at three laboratories in Atlanta as they investigated a breach in safety procedures for handling the deadly pathogen. The U.S. Cen... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Shares of specialty retailers and apparel makers helped lead the charge off the market’s bottom in March 2009 but unraveled this year, leaving consumer discretionary stocks as the sole sector to still be lower through the first half of 201... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Bob Dylan’s lyrics for “Like a Rolling Stone” and “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” are expected to be the highlights of Sotheby’s rock and roll auction next week, which will include memorabilia from the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Elvis Pr... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Actor and comedian Tracy Morgan, critically injured in a New Jersey highway collision earlier this month, has been moved to a rehabilitation center where he is expected to stay for a few weeks, his publicist said on Friday. Morgan has been... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Wall Street equities rose on Friday for a sixth straight session and hit new highs, boosted by money managers convinced that U.S. policymakers will keep a lid on interest rates through 2016. Prices of U.S. Treasuries steadied after early d... More »
NEW YORK – (Reuters Health) – Women who become pregnant again within 18 months after having a baby are more likely to deliver early, according to a new study. Past reports have also linked having a short interpregnancy interval with a greater risk of premature... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The dollar stayed firm on Friday as U.S. bond yields held steady, while sterling slipped from its recent peaks tied to expectations the Bank of England might raise interest rates by early 2015 on signs of a strengthening British economy. R... More »
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – (This June 19 story has been corrected to change the month from July to June in paragraph 14 and add dropped word ‘with’ in paragraph 4) Tired of the social media treadmill and hoping to unplug for a couple days? Consider this fast-gr... More »
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Deutsche Telekom is in talks with U.S. video streaming company Netflix about a possible marketing alliance, a German magazine reported on Friday. German monthly Magazine Manager cited people familiar with the matter as saying the talks we... More »
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Apple Inc plans to launch smartwatches with multiple screen sizes and designs this fall, the Wall Street Journal on Friday cited a person familiar with the matter as saying. Taiwan’s Quanta will begin mass production of Apple’s first ... More »
(Reuters) – Verizon Communications Inc unit Verizon Wireless is looking to buy satellite-TV operator Dish Network Corp’s spectrum to improve wireless internet speeds, the New York Post reported, citing sources familiar with the matter. Dish’s shares were up 3.... More »
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Commission has told Ireland it may investigate more companies as part of a probe into the country’s tax practices, after announcing a formal probe into Apple Inc’s (AAPL.O ) Irish subsidiaries, a person familiar with the matte... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A federal judge in Pennsylvania has dismissed a lawsuit accusing Kevin Clash, the puppeteer known for his work as the voice of Sesame Street’s Elmo, of child sexual abuse. The lawsuit was filed by a man who accused Clash, 53, of engaging i... More »
