HOUSTON (Reuters) – Climate protesters, who dangled beneath a bridge on Thursday shutting the channel to the nation’s busiest petrochemical port at Houston, were charged on Friday with violating a new Texas law that protects ‘critical infrastructure’, the Harris County Sheriff’s Office said. In addition to the felony charge for obstructing critical infrastructure, the protesters
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(Reuters) – The U.S. House Judiciary Committee on Friday requested information from Apple Inc (AAPL.O) Chief Executive Tim Cook as part of an investigation of competition in digital markets. FILE PHOTO: The logo of Apple is seen at a store in Zurich, Switzerland January 3, 2019. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann The lawmakers in a letter sought information
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. House of Representatives panel on Friday demanded internal emails, detailed financial information and other company records from top executives of Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN.O), Facebook Inc (FB.O), Apple Inc (AAPL.O), and Alphabet Inc’s Google (GOOGL.O), widening the antitrust probe of Big Tech. The letters seek by Oct. 14 internal emails over
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris on Friday asked a government watchdog to look into the Trump administration’s decision to launch an antitrust probe into four automakers cooperating with California on tighter greenhouse gas emissions limits that Trump is trying to eliminate. FILE PHOTO: Senator Kamala Harris speaks during the
Photograph by Summer O’GradyCatch it here first By Maddison Glendinning Date September 13, 2019 icon-facebook icon-twitter Today, Montreal native and musician laye debuts her new song sicker exclusively on Fashionmagazine.com. Fresh off the back of a standout set at Osheaga 2019 and the launch of her debut album lonesome, the new single comes ahead of her highly anticipated
Have you ever been to Japan? While I’ve always been fascinated by the country, I can’t say I’ve ever been. You know who has been though? Throttle. And he loved the place so much he made a song about it hoping to capture the essence of the iconic nation with his new song “Japan.” “Japan” is
No one is getting off easy in Grey’s Anatomy season 16. After everybody had a good time falling in love and committing the occasional crime in season 15, they’re now facing the music in a way they never really have before on this show, to the point where showrunner Krista Vernoff tells us it was
In commemoration of the defacto horror holiday Friday the 13th, STX Entertainment has released the official trailer for the upcoming horror/thriller movie Countdown. With a simple story about downloading a trendy new app on a smartphone going terribly wrong, those who use a strange “Countdown” app begin dying in mysterious fashion. Written and directed by
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. federal appeals court on Friday revived a lawsuit alleging President Donald Trump violated the U.S. Constitution by profiting from foreign and domestic officials who patronized his hotels and restaurants, moving a watchdog group closer to obtaining financial records from his real estate company. FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump
FILE PHOTO: The logos of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google in a combination photo from Reuters files./File Photo (Reuters) – A U.S. House of Representatives panel on Friday demanded internal emails and other company records from four technology giants as it seeks evidence of anticompetitive behavior. A bipartisan group of lawmakers on the House Judiciary
FILE PHOTO: German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer arrives for the informal meeting of EU ministers of home affairs in Helsinki, Finland July 18, 2019. Jussi Nukari/Lehtikuva/via REUTERS BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany is ready to take in a quarter of migrants who reach Italy by sea, Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said in remarks published on Friday,
HOUSTON (Reuters) – The Houston Ship Channel on Friday reopened for vessel traffic, the U.S. Coast Guard said, after the last of 11 protesters who had disrupted traffic by dangled on ropes above the key energy-export waterwater was removed by police earlier in the morning. A large portion of the channel was closed when Greenpeace
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Noam Galai/Getty Images for Shorty Awards It’s been roughly 48 hours since Natalie Beach revealed her role in the making of influencer Caroline Calloway. Since then, Caroline has posted photos on her Instagram roughly 65 times. Of those 65 photos, a majority are screenshots of the posts that her former friend Natalie co-captioned for her, with the rest
Tensions were at an all-time high on Thursday’s episode of Big Brother. It kicked off with Tommy and Holly on the block, and Jackson realized that Cliff and Nicole were starting to warm to the idea of keeping Tommy over Holly. For Jackson, that meant his love interest would be going home during his reign
Desolation Center Synopsis Desolation Center is the previously untold story of a series of early 80s guerrilla music and art performance happenings in Southern California that are recognized to have paved the way for Burning Man, Lollapalooza and Coachella. Read Full Synopsis