Author Archives: Syndicated Content
U.S. energy regulator to examine climate change’s threat to power reliability
By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. federal energy regulators said on Monday they will examine threats that climate change and extreme weather events pose to the country's electric reliabil...
Feb 22, 2021
Nominee for U.S. Treasury No. 2 to urge efforts to combat China’s ‘unfair economic practices’
By Andrea Shalal and David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury should strategically use its tools to respond to authoritarian governments and fight unfair economic practices in China and e...
Feb 22, 2021
Biden administration asks U.S. Supreme Court to dump Medicaid work case
By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden's administration on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to cancel an upcoming oral argument on a policy introduced under his predecessor D...
Feb 22, 2021
Mexican president pressures Canadian miner in simmering tax dispute
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Monday urged a Canadian mining company in the country to pay outstanding taxes, saying it was hiding behind the threat of inter...
Feb 22, 2021
Activist investment firm pushes Exxon to do more on greenhouse gas emissions
BOSTON (Reuters) - Investment firm Engine No. 1 on Monday reiterated its call for Exxon Mobil Corp, one of corporate America's most iconic brands, to slash its greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050...
Feb 22, 2021
Wife of Mexico drug cartel chief El Chapo is arrested in Virginia: U.S. Justice Dep’t
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The wife of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the imprisoned former leader of Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel, was arrested on Monday over her alleged involvement in international drug tr...
Feb 22, 2021
Pfizer to ship 13 million COVID-19 vaccine doses per week to U.S. by mid-March, says executive
By Carl O'Donnell (Reuters) - Pfizer Inc expects to deliver more than 13 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine per week to the United States by the middle of March, more than doubling its shipments fr...
Feb 22, 2021
Trump likely to dangle possibility of a 2024 run in first post-White House speech, activist says
By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former President Donald Trump is likely to dangle the possibility of running again for president in 2024 in his first major post-White House speech this weekend...
Feb 22, 2021
Mexican president slams audit flagging cost of airport cancellation
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Monday attacked an official report saying the cost of his 2018 cancellation of a new Mexico City airport started by the previou...
Feb 22, 2021
Nationals sign former All-Star reliever Jeremy Jeffress
Veteran right-hander Jeremy Jeffress will have some work to do to make the Washington Nationals' Opening Day roster after agreeing to a minor league deal with the club Monday, multiple outlets reporte...
Feb 22, 2021
