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Hollywood insiders predict writers strike to drag on through summer
By Dawn Chmielewski and Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Hollywood writers' strike that kicked off this week could last well into the summer and likely beyond, top executives close to the dis...
May 04, 2023
Greens sue California over changes to rooftop solar incentives
By Clark Mindock Environmental groups have sued California regulators over new rules they say will discourage the growth of rooftop solar installations, in violation of state law. Three groups filed a...
May 04, 2023
Hollywood studios push back against striking writers’ claim of ‘gig’ workforce
By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The group representing Hollywood studios fired back on Thursday at claims from striking film and television workers that they have been forced into the "gig ec...
May 04, 2023
US meatpacker JBS opens cleaning unit after outside firm fined for hiring kids
CHICAGO (Reuters) - JBS USA, one of biggest U.S. meatpackers, is creating an internal company to clean some of its processing plants after a private sanitation firm it employed was accused of hiring c...
May 04, 2023
Chokehold death of homeless man on New York subway ruled a homicide
(Reuters) - The death of a man who was placed in a chokehold by a fellow passenger on a New York City subway train earlier this week has been ruled a homicide by the city's medical examiner as calls f...
May 04, 2023
Dallas disrupted by hackers – courts closed, police and fire sites offline
By Raphael Satter (Reuters) - Hacker sabotage has disrupted several public services in Dallas, closing courts and knocking emergency services websites offline, officials said Thursday. Courts were clo...
May 04, 2023
US jury sides with Ed Sheeran in ‘Let’s Get It On’ copyright trial
By Blake Brittain and Brendan Pierson (Reuters) - British pop superstar Ed Sheeran's 2014 hit "Thinking Out Loud" did not unlawfully copy from Marvin Gaye's classic 1973 song "Let's Get It On," a jury...
May 04, 2023
Four taken to hospital after gas leak at Marathon’s Los Angeles refinery
(Reuters) - Marathon Petroleum said on Thursday four employees were transported to local medical facilities for evaluation after they were exposed to a release at its refinery in Wilmington, Californi...
May 04, 2023
US envoy to Russia visits detained American Paul Whelan in prison- embassy
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. ambassador to Russia Lynne Tracy on Thursday visited American citizen Paul Whelan in the prison he has been held in Mordovia in eastern Russia, the U.S. embassy said. "Paul...
May 04, 2023
Larry Page may be served in Jeffrey Epstein case, judge rules
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Virgin Islands may serve legal papers on Larry Page as part of its lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase & Co over its ties to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a judge rul...
May 04, 2023
