Bryce Harper hit his first two homers of the spring and drove in four runs on Wednesday to help the Philadelphia Phillies record a 9-7 victory over the visiting Pittsburgh Pirates at Clearwater, Fla. FILE PHOTO: Feb 21, 2020; Clearwater, Florida, USA; Philadelphia Phillies right fielder Bryce Harper (3) throws to warm up during workouts
Month: March 2020
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Oil prices rose more than 1% on Thursday ahead of an OPEC meeting in which Saudi Arabia is expected to push the group and its allies including Russia to agree to further output cuts to support the market. FILE PHOTO: Oil pours out of a spout from Edwin Drake’s original 1859 well
MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Investors in Rio Tinto Ltd have renewed efforts to force the world’s biggest iron ore miner to commit to targets that would scale back emissions of its customers in line with the Paris Agreement on combating climate change. FILE PHOTO: The Rio Tinto mining company’s logo is photographed at their annual general
FILE PHOTO: U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) attends an event celebrating the anniversary of the White House’s Women’s Global Development and Prosperity (W-GDP) initiative at the State Department in Washington, U.S., February 12, 2020. REUTERS/Leah Millis WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Senate Judiciary Committee said on Wednesday it would hold a hearing on March 11 to
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The former head of Uber Technologies Inc’s self-driving technology unit, Anthony Levandowski, filed for bankruptcy protection on Wednesday, shortly after a court confirmed that he must pay $179 million to Google to end a legal battle over his split from the Alphabet Inc unit. FILE PHOTO: Former Google and Uber engineer
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Prince Harry and his wife Meghan will appear together at an official engagement on Thursday for the first time since January’s announcement that they would step away from their royal duties. FILE PHOTO: Britain’s Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex visit Canada House in London, Britain January 7,
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Today’s artificial limbs can look very natural, and now an innovative process makes prosthetic hands move more naturally as well. Paul Cederna (foreground), the Robert Oneal Professor of Plastic Surgery at the University of Michigan, shifts his attention as Daniel Lyons, a resident of plastic surgery, stitches up the arm of
DETROIT (Reuters) – General Motors Co (GM.N) Chief Executive Mary Barra said Wednesday the Detroit automaker will invest $20 billion by 2025 in electric and automated vehicles as it races to catch up with Elon Musk’s Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) as vehicles go electric. FILE PHOTO: A Chevrolet Bolt EV vehicle is seen on the assembly
FILE PHOTO: Mary Teresa Barra , Chairwoman and CEO of General Motors Company attends the unveiling its redesigned mid-engine C8 Corvette, the 2020 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray, in Tustin, California,U.S., July 18, 2019. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo DETROIT (Reuters) – General Motors Co (GM.N) Chief Executive Mary Barra said on Wednesday the automaker’s North American vehicle production
GENEVA (Reuters) – A Singaporean candidate is ahead of a Chinese lawyer in a race to head the world patent office as Beijing seeks its fifth U.N. leadership role in a move critics say would give it an unprecedented level of influence over new technologies. The headquarter of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg ended his U.S. presidential campaign on Wednesday and endorsed new Democratic front-runner Joe Biden, whose bid for the White House streaked ahead with a string of electoral victories on Super Tuesday. The fight to find the Democrat who will face Republican President Donald Trump in the
LONDON (Reuters) – Seven of Formula One’s 10 teams put on a rare show of unity on Wednesday in threatening legal action against a confidential settlement between the governing FIA and Ferrari over the Italian team’s 2019 power unit. Formula One – Brazilian Grand Prix – Practice – Jose Carlos Pace Circuit, Sao Paulo, Brazil
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Climate activist Greta Thunberg accused European Union governments and institutions on Wednesday of only “pretending” to urgently tackle the climate crisis. Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg addresses the environment committee at the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium, March 4, 2020. REUTERS/Yves Herman EU leaders say they are spearheading some of the most
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s 19th-century parliamentary palace and its hundreds of grand offices and wood-panelled meeting rooms are ill-equipped to deal with the global outbreak of coronavirus, according to some worried lawmakers working inside the building. FILE PHOTO: People walk on Westminster Bridge near Houses of Parliament in London, Britain, February 1, 2020. REUTERS/Antonio Bronic
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Robert Durst, the ailing New York real estate scion whose arrest prosecutors say was hastened by his confession to multiple killings in a 2015 TV documentary, was due to face a jury on Wednesday for opening statements in his Los Angeles murder trial. FILE PHOTO: Robert Durst attends a motions hearing
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – With the dramatic winnowing of the Democratic presidential field, the 14 nominating contests held on Tuesday largely came down to a single question: Could former Vice President Joe Biden amass enough delegates to slow Senator Bernie Sanders’ path to the nomination? As polls closed in the eastern United States, the emerging answer