Reckitt to pay $1.4 billion to end U.S. opioid addiction treatment probes
(Reuters) – Reckitt Benckiser has agreed to pay up to $1.4 billion to resolve U.S. claims that its former pharmaceuticals…
Oil falls on dim OPEC demand outlook, pares gains from Gulf of Mexico storm
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Oil prices fell on Thursday as OPEC forecast slower demand for its crude next year, with…
Deutsche Bank to layoff 126 New York staff as part of restructuring
Signage is seen on the lobby of the U.S. headquarters of Deutsche Bank in New York City, U.S., July 8,…
Wall Street banks bailing on troubled U.S. farm sector
CHICAGO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – In the wake of the U.S. housing meltdown of the late 2000s, JPMorgan Chase & Co hunted…
Colgate to buy skin care business of France’s Filorga for $1.69 billion
FILE PHOTO – Anti-ageing cosmetics by French Laboratoires Filorga are displayed at the company’s showroom in Paris, France, September 23,…
Mexico says trade deal dispute panel fix must be ‘across the board’
FILE PHOTO: Mexico’s Deputy Foreign Minister for North America, Jesus Seade reacts during the delivery of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement…
S&P 500, Dow climb as health insurers, financials gain
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Dow and S&P 500 rose on Thursday to close at record highs as health insurers…
Anadarko shareholders to vote next month on Occidental deal
Anadarko Petroleum Corporation is seen in The Woodlands, Texas, U.S., April 30, 2019. REUTERS/Loren Elliott HOUSTON (Reuters) – Anadarko Petroleum…
European startups navigate long, winding road to self-driving future
OXFORD, England (Reuters) – Far from the sunny, wide streets of Phoenix, where Waymo’s self-driving taxis ply their trade, a…
Bostic: Fed’s focus is its mandates not market pricing for rate cuts
ATLANTA (Reuters) – Strong market expectations of an upcoming Fed rate increase are not a reason for the central bank…
Fed’s Powell affirms rate cut view; others see U.S. economy humming
ATLANTA/VICTOR, Idaho (Reuters) – As Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell kept the focus Thursday on global risks that could trigger…
June imports fall at top U.S. hub for China ocean trade
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The Los Angeles and Long Beach port complex, the nation’s busiest and the No. 1 for…
Boeing reshuffles management of grounded 737: memo
SEATTLE/PARIS (Reuters) – Boeing Co (BA.N) has reassigned the head of its next airplane project to run the troubled 737…
Nike goes ahead with investment in new Arizona manufacturing plant
FILE PHOTO: A customer is reflected in a shop window decorated with Nike store logo at the outlet village Belaya…
Ford, Volkswagen promise details on electric, autonomous vehicle alliance
HAMBURG/DETROIT (Reuters) – Ford Motor Co and Volkswagen AG (VOWG_p.DE) said on Thursday they are expanding their global alliance announced…
A Ford-Volkswagen alliance with Argo could redraw self-driving sector
DETROIT (Reuters) – An expanded alliance between Ford Motor Co (F.N) and Volkswagen AG (VOWG_p.DE) that includes a partnership in…
Reckitt to pay $1.4 billion to end U.S. opioid addiction treatment probes
(Reuters) – Reckitt Benckiser has agreed to pay up to $1.4 billion to resolve U.S. claims that its former pharmaceuticals…
Reduced work hours for trainee doctors not seen to compromise care
(Reuters Health) – Physicians who trained in U.S. hospitals under recent reforms that capped their work hours appear to provide…
Lawmakers seek scientific review of plan to tightly regulate all fentanyl copycats
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Lawmakers on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee have urged the Trump administration to conduct a scientific review…
White House scraps key plan to lower U.S. drug prices; may target drugmakers
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Trump administration on Thursday scrapped one of its most ambitious proposals for lowering prescription medicine…
Authorities: Missing Texas man was eaten by his own dogs
A Texas man who had been missing for months was eaten, bones and all, by his pack of dogs, sheriff’s…
Juror urges U.S. judge to uphold $80 million Roundup verdict against Bayer
(Reuters) – A juror who was part of a panel that delivered an $80 million award against Bayer AG after…
Legalizing pot tied to less teen marijuana use
Marijuana legalization laws don’t appear to increase teen pot use and instead may have the opposite effect, a U.S. study…
Appeals court panel grills Democratic defenders on constitutionality of Obamacare
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) – A federal appeals court panel grilled Democratic attorneys general on Tuesday about whether Obamacare violates the…
Potential IPO candidate BioNTech secures $325 million in financing round
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – German biotech firm BioNTech has secured $325 million in a private financing round to boost its cancer…
Trump administration drug officials clash over how to combat fentanyl copycats
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Trump administration officials are divided over part of a proposal to crack down on illicit versions of…
Mental health issues in Hong Kong surging amid tumultuous protests, experts say
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Stress and trauma over the political turmoil surrounding Hong Kong’s extradition bill has created an unprecedented…
U.S. judge strikes down Trump administration rule requiring drug prices in TV ads
(Reuters) – A federal judge on Monday dealt a blow to the Trump administration by striking down a new rule…
Obamacare’s future in play as U.S. appeals court weighs its constitutionality
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) – The future of Obamacare could be at stake on Tuesday when a group of Democratic-led states…
Novartis to sell epinephrine shot in U.S. pharmacies amid EpiPen shortage
(Reuters) – Novartis AG (NOVN.S) said on Tuesday it would make its generic pre-filled epinephrine shots immediately available in local…
Novartis to sell epinephrine injector in U.S. pharmacies amid EpiPen shortage
FILE PHOTO: EpiPen auto-injection epinephrine pens manufactured by Mylan NV pharmaceutical company for use by severe allergy sufferers are seen…
WHO keeps key lung cancer drugs off its essential medicines list
GENEVA/ZURICH (Reuters) – Immunotherapies that have emerged as a breakthrough in treating lung cancer have been rejected for inclusion on…
Police: Woman throws snake at woman in carjacking
Police say a woman stole a vehicle after throwing a nonpoisonous snake at the driver, then crashed through barricades set…
State Department proposes $2 billion sale of arms to Taiwan
The State Department is proposing the sale of $2.2 billion in arms to Taiwan, including 108 Abrams tanks and 250…
Trump says US ‘will no longer deal with’ UK ambassador who called him ‘inept’ in leaked cables
President Donald Trump in a tweet on Monday said that the United States “will no longer deal with” U.K. Ambassador…
Woman, 3 children missing in deadly mobile home fire
Police say a woman and three children are unaccounted for following a deadly fire at a mobile home park site…
5 discovered killed in St. Louis apartment; suspect sought
Police in St. Louis say five people have been discovered slain in an apartment building. St. Louis County Police confirmed…
Mount Rushmore Memorial to begin major construction projects
One of the country’s most popular tourist attractions is getting to the core of a multi-million dollar upgrade. The Rapid…
4 dead in apparent murder-suicide in northwest Arkansas
Authorities in northwest Arkansas say a man has allegedly shot his wife and two adult sons to death before apparently…
Judge OKs state’s motion to dismiss fetal manslaughter case
The manslaughter charge against an Alabama woman who lost her fetus when she was shot during a fight has been…
Man arrested in Oregon in death of original Mouseketeer
Authorities in Oregon have arrested a man in the death of an original member of Disney’s “The Mickey Mouse Club.”…
Police: 7 dead in multi-vehicle interstate crash in Georgia
Seven people were killed Saturday in a chain-reaction crash on an interstate in Georgia when an SUV crossed over the…
GM, Ford quarterly China sales slide again amid economy woes
BEIJING (Reuters) – General Motors Co (GM.N) and Ford Motor Co (F.N) announced their quarterly sales in China fell, albeit…
Mexico and U.S. try new trade fix to win over Democrats: official
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico is working closely with U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer to close a loophole in the…
Boxing with giants: Italy’s packing robots are not just cardboard cutouts
(This June 28 story corrects Romaco’s nationality to German, not Italian, in paragraph 17) By Silvia Aloisi CITTÀ DI CASTELLO,…
Tempered expectations of Fed rate cut sink stocks globally
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A strong U.S. jobs report that tempered expectations of an aggressive interest rate cut by the…
Fugitive U.S. tech guru: Cryptocurrency is next Cuban revolution
HAVANA (Reuters) – On the run from U.S. tax authorities, tech guru John McAfee puffs a cigar aboard his towering…
Wall Street dips as rate cut expectations relax
(Reuters) – U.S. stocks dipped on Friday, as the S&P 500 snapped a three-day streak of record closes, following an…
Buoyant U.S. stocks at odds with downbeat market signals
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Even as record highs this week in the major U.S. stock indexes telegraph confidence on Wall…
Amazon founder Bezos’ divorce final with $38 billion settlement: report
FILE PHOTO: 2018 Vanity Fair Oscar Party – Arrivals – Beverly Hills, California, U.S., 04/03/2018 – Amazon CEO Jeff and…
Exclusive: U.S. clears SoftBank’s $2.25 billion investment in GM-backed Cruise
(Reuters) – Cruise, a U.S. self-driving vehicle company majority-owned by General Motors Co, told Reuters on Friday that a U.S.…
U.S. job growth surges, July rate cut expectations intact
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. job growth rebounded strongly in June, with government payrolls surging, but persistent moderate wage gains and…
Ethiopian crash families criticize Boeing over donation plan
NAIROBI (Reuters) – The families of victims of an Ethiopian air disaster on Thursday criticized Boeing’s plan to donate $100…
U.S. asks federal court to throw out Huawei lawsuit
The Huawei logo is pictured on the company’s stand during the ‘Electronics Show – International Trade Fair for Consumer Electronics’…
US vs. England in World Cup: US wins as Megan Rapinoe has ‘minor strain’
The U.S. Women’s National Team bested England in the semifinals of the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup and tensions could…
Irish regulator opens third privacy probe into Apple
FILE PHOTO: An Apple logo hangs above the entrance to the Apple store on 5th Avenue in the Manhattan borough…
Facebook campus given all-clear after sarin scare
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook Inc’s (FB.O) Silicon Valley campus received the all-clear on Tuesday after fears that a package…
DoJ pushes T-Mobile to give more to Dish: CNBC
FILE PHOTO: The logo of T-Mobile Austria is seen outside of one of its shops in Viennaa, Austria, February 25,…