By Kate Holton, Sarah Young and Andrew MacAskillLONDON (Reuters) -Flights at Britain’s Heathrow resumed late on Friday after a fire knocked out its power supply and shut Europe’s busiest airport for the day, stranding tens of thousands of passengers and causing travel turmoil worldwide. Heathrow said its teams worked tirelessly to reopen the world’s fifth-busiest airport after it was forced ...
By Mike Scarcella, Sara Merken and Karen SloanNEW YORK (Reuters) -Powerful Wall Street law firm Paul Weiss faced heavy criticism on Friday over a deal it struck with the White House to escape an executive order imperiling its business, even as some lawyers said the firm faced few other options.Lawyers at some companies and law firms skewered Paul Weiss online for capitulating to U.S. Republican Pr ...
By Phil Stewart, Idrees Ali and Nandita BoseWASHINGTON (Reuters) -Billionaire Elon Musk took his campaign to cut the U.S. federal government into uncharted waters on Friday, holding an unprecedented top-level meeting at the Pentagon and calling for the prosecution of any Defense Department officials leaking "maliciously false information" about his visit.Musk, whose businesses have a number of Def ...
Investing.com -- Bernstein analysts, in a note Monday, highlighted that U.S. alcohol consumption is in decline, leading to growing concerns among investors that alcohol may follow the same trajectory as tobacco—a sector that faced long-term volume declines due to health concerns and regulatory pressures. Per capita alcohol consumption fell ~3% in 2024, marking a 10% drop from 2021’s peak ...