By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) -Tesla has been accused by a U.S. labor agency of discouraging workers at a Buffalo, New York, assembly plant from union organizing by barring them from using phones and other devices, an agency spokeswoman said on Thursday. A National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) official issued a complaint late Wednesday claiming Tesla’s…
By Joseph Ax (Reuters) -Reuters won two Pulitzer Prizes on Monday, taking home the breaking news photography award for searing images of the Israel-Gaza conflict as well as the national reporting award for a series of investigations into Elon Musk’s manufacturing empire. ProPublica won the coveted public service award for stories detailing undisclosed gifts and…
By Noel Randewich (Reuters) – Tesla shareholders approved CEO Elon Musk’s $56 billion pay package in a what was seen as an endorsement of his leadership, but the electric car maker’s stock remains richly valued even after several years of weakness in shares. Shareholders at Tesla’s annual general meeting on Thursday re-approved Musk’s 2018 record-setting compensation…
By Chuck Mikolajczak and Lewis Krauskopf NEW YORK (Reuters) – Investors are gearing up for the final reconstitution of the benchmark indexes by FTSE Russell on Friday, with the furious rally in artificial intelligence (AI) related stocks over the past year expected to leave an outsized imprint on their final shape. The Russell Reconstitution, an…
By Hyunjoo Jin, Ross Kerber and Tom Hals SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -Tesla will use Thursday’s strong support for Elon Musk’s $56 billion pay package to try to win over a Delaware judge that invalidated his 2018 agreement, the company’s board president said Friday. The long process to reaffirm the largest-ever corporate pay package ended Thursday,…
By Jasper Ward WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A New Hampshire man charged with threatening to kidnap and injure Republican presidential candidates last year has been found dead, a U.S. attorney said in a court filing on Thursday. The jury had began their deliberations this week in the trial of Tyler Anderson, who had been accused of…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Mark Warner is attempting to assemble a group of Democratic senators to ask Joe Biden to exit the presidential race after last week’s debate performance, the Washington Post reported on Friday, citing two unidentified people with knowledge of the effort. Warner, the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, earlier this…
By Robin Respaut and Chad Terhune (Reuters) – For many U.S. parents seeking help for a child with obesity, the most widely-endorsed treatment is out of reach – and it’s not the popular weight-loss drug Wegovy. Leading medical groups recommend intensive behavioral counseling – 26 hours within one year – to teach children and their…
By makailah gause NEW YORK (Reuters) – Women in the U.S. have saved just a third of the amount that men have set aside for retirement, setting up a potential crisis among female retirees, according to a Prudential Financial survey released on Monday. On average, men had saved $157,000 for retirement, while women had only…
By David Lawder and Ann Saphir WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. central bank might have begun cutting interest rates in late July had it known that the labor market was cooling as fast as it has been, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said on Wednesday. “If you ask, you know, if we’d gotten the July…
