TOKYO (AP) — Honda said electric vehicle sales were slowing in the United States, prompting the Japanese automaker to scrap its previous goal for EVs to be 30 percent of its global vehicle sales by 2030. Instead of the initial plan to invest $69 billion in an electrification strategy through the fiscal year ending in [...]
The Trump administration is allowing work on a major offshore wind project for New York to resume. The developer, the Norwegian energy company Equinor, said it was told by the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management that a stop-work order has been lifted for the Empire Wind project, allowing construction to resume. Work has been [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has voted to move forward with legislation to regulate a form of cryptocurrency called stablecoins, two weeks after Democrats blocked the measure. The 66-32 procedural vote keeps one of President Donald Trump’s top legislative priorities on track for passage and highlights the growing political strength of the cryptocurrency industry, which [...]
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union agreed this week to impose fresh sanctions on Russia, notably targeting almost 200 ships from the shadow fleet illicitly transporting oil to skirt Western restrictions put in place over Moscow’s war in Ukraine. The 27-nation bloc targeted 189 ships in all, and imposed asset freezes and travel bans on [...]
The Justice Department may drop its criminal prosecution of Boeing for allegedly misleading federal regulators about the 737 Max jetliner before two of the planes crashed and killed 346 people, according to a weekend court filing. The department said in a Saturday status report that two representatives had met with the families of some crash [...]
Health officials are making a renewed call for vigilance against bird flu, but some researchers are puzzling over why reports of new human cases have stopped. “We just don’t know why there haven’t been cases,” said Jennifer Nuzzo, director of the Pandemic Center at Brown University. “I think we should assume there are infections that [...]
Biotechnology company Regeneron Pharmaceuticals is buying 23andMe for $256 million, two months after the genetic testing company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. In March, 23andMe said it was looking to sell “substantially all of its assets” through a court-approved reorganization plan. Its co-founder and CEO Anne Wojcicki also resigned from the top post, but [...]
Russian authorities this week outlawed Amnesty International as an “undesirable organization,” a label that under a 2015 law makes involvement with such organizations a criminal offense. The decision by the Russian Prosecutor General’s office, announced in an online statement, is the latest in the crackdown on Kremlin critics, journalists and activists that grew to unprecedented [...]