Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares expressed dissatisfaction at the operation of some U.S. plants on Thursday, and took responsibility for not reacting quickly enough to address that issue, the problem of inventory backup, and tackling a “suboptimal” marketing strategy. Tavares said the three issues, which hit as the company struggles with lower shipments and revenues, were not tackled in a timely fashion out of arrogance.
Six Senate Republicans will try to block President Joe Biden's nominees in protest of Donald Trump being found guilty on 34 felony counts.
Marsha Cook, 54, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, died after collapsing and losing consciousness while hiking up the the Lower Monument Canyon Trail in Colorado.
President Joe Biden will host a White House event next week celebrating an Obama-era directive that offered deportation protections for young undocumented immigrants, as his own administration prepares potential new benefits for others without legal status but with long-standing ties in the United States. White House officials are closing in on a plan that would tap Biden’s executive powers to shield spouses of U.S. citizens without legal status from deportation, offer them work permits and ease their path toward permanent residency and eventually American citizenship, according to five people with knowledge of the deliberations. The people said those actions could be unveiled as early as next week, although a White House official stressed Thursday that no final decisions have been made on what Biden will announce, if anything.
Senate Republicans blocked a Democratic bill Thursday to codify federal protections for in vitro fertilization, or IVF.
Stock markets mostly retreated on Thursday as traders reacted to political uncertainty in Europe and the US Federal Reserve's plan to only cut interest rates once this year.On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve left its key lending rate unchanged and penciled in just one rate cut this year, down from the three expected in March.
U.S. bishops want to assure Native Catholics that they don’t need to feel torn between their Native identity and their Catholic one. In the works for a few years, the document was completed as new details emerged during the past two years of widespread abuses inflicted on Native children over many decades at Catholic-run boarding schools. Called “Keeping Christ’s Sacred Promise: A Pastoral Framework for Indigenous Ministry,” the document is up for approval at this week’s USCCB meeting in Louisville, Kentucky.
A Minnesota man who once fought for the Islamic State group in Syria after becoming radicalized expressed remorse and wept in open court Thursday as he was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison. U.S. District Judge Ann Montgomery said among the cases she has presided over in her 40 years on the bench, Al-Madioum's was “extraordinary."
A slow-moving storm system infused with deep tropical moisture over South Florida will bring more very heavy rain and thunderstorms Thursday — one day after flash flooding turned streets into rivers and triggered hundreds of flight delays and cancellations.
The Movement for Rights and Freedom (MRF), mainly representing Bulgaria's large ethnic Turkish minority, won 47 seats while pro-Western bloc We Continue the Change (PP) had 39 seats. The ultra-nationalist Revival party won 38 seats.
A military veteran who went on to serve as a firefighter and owned a local radio station revealed in his obituary that he was gay, a secret he said he held his entire life. After listing his career accolades and his survivors, Ryan's obituary, published June 8 in the Albany Times-Union, included a message that he wrote prior to his death.
Robotaxi company Waymo has voluntarily recalled software in all of its 672 self-driving vehicles..
School districts in California would be barred from forcing teachers to notify parents if their child asks to go by a new pronoun at school under a bill the state Legislature is weighing amid legal battles over the rights of parents and gender-nonconforming students. The state Senate approved the proposal Thursday, which would ban school districts from passing or enforcing policies requiring school staff to disclose a student's gender identity or sexual orientation to anyone else without the child's permission, with some exceptions.
If you’re a U.S. citizen, you may be able to renew your passport online now.
Apple's new Messages via satellite will let you text friends and family even when you're off the grid without a cellular or Wi-Fi connection.
Chinese President Xi Jinping told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy that China would not sell weapons to Russia during a phone conversation between the two men, Zelenskiy said on Thursday. Zelenskiy was speaking at a joint press conference with U.S. President Joe Biden at the G7 summit in Italy.
Even though Trump favors low taxes and light regulation, many businesses view him as a danger.
The Bank of Japan is expected to hold interest rates steady on Friday but reports said it could gradually reduce its vast hoard of government bonds as it shifts away from a long-running ultra-loose monetary policy.And because reducing government bond purchases is already widely expected, if the BoJ does not decide to do this, the yen will decrease further, he warned.
The US Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a bid to restrict a pill widely used to terminate pregnancies, but President Joe Biden warned the decision will not defuse a bitter election fight over abortion."Today's decision does not change the fact that the fight for reproductive freedom continues," Biden said.
The founder and the top doctor of a San Francisco-based telehealth startup were charged by the U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday with running a fraudulent $100 million scheme to distribute Adderall and other stimulants online. Done Global founder Ruthia He and clinical president David Brody are the first to be federally prosecuted in connection with alleged illegal drug distribution related to a telehealth company. Authorities said Done arranged for prescriptions of more than 40 million pills including Adderall, which treats attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, by using social media to attract "drug seekers" willing to pay monthly subscription fees for ready access.