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Lawmakers question Musk influence over Verizon FAA contract

Lawmakers question Musk influence over Verizon FAA contract

By David ShepardsonWASHINGTON (Reuters) - A growing number of U.S. lawmakers are raising questions about the potential for SpaceX CEO Elon Musk to interfere or take over a $2.4 billion Federal Aviation Administration telecommunications contract with rival Verizon (NYSE:VZ).Musk, a senior adviser to President Donald Trump who owns satellite company Starlink, has sharply criticized the current FAA t ...

2025-03-01 21:26:41
Factbox-US companies scale back and modify diversity policies after Trump’s order

Factbox-US companies scale back and modify diversity policies after Trump’s order

(Reuters) - From Google to Target, many major U.S. companies have dropped or considered altering their diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies following President Donald Trump’s executive order to curtail such programs at the federal and private level.Even before Trump took office, big corporations were under increasing pressure from conservative groups to cut back or tweak their DEI poli ...

2025-03-01 21:24:59
US regulators, in unusual move, raise concerns about new private credit ETF

US regulators, in unusual move, raise concerns about new private credit ETF

By Suzanne McGee(Reuters) - The U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission sounded the alarm about aspects of the first broad private credit market exchange-traded fund, in a letter posted on its website on Thursday, hours after the ETF began trading. In what analysts and other asset management firms described as a highly unusual move, Brent Fields, associate director of the SEC’s division of inv ...

2025-03-01 21:23:33
Trump Marine One helicopter trip disrupts flights at Washington airport

Trump Marine One helicopter trip disrupts flights at Washington airport

By David ShepardsonWASHINGTON (Reuters) -More than two dozen flights headed to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport were impacted on Friday by recent rules barring flights during presidential helicopter trips, flight tracking site Flightradar24 said.After a January 29 collision between an Army helicopter and an American Airlines (NASDAQ:AAL) regional jet killed 67 people, the Federal Aviation ...

2025-03-01 21:20:16