By Philip Blenkinsop
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen appears on course for a second five-year term and Estonia's prime minister and Portugual's former premier are also in line for top jobs, EU diplomats and a senior EU official said on Tuesday.
European Union leaders will gather in Brussels on Monday for a first joint review of the European Parliament election.
They are expected to... (continue reading...)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg will testify before the House Judiciary Committee on July 12, the day after former U.S. President Donald Trump is sentenced in his hush money case, Fox News reported on Tuesday.
Prosecutor Michael Colangelo is also expected to testify, according to the report. A Manhattan jury last month found Trump guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records.
By Jonathan Stempel
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Martin Shkreli has been sued in New York by a digital art collective that said it paid $4.75 million for a one-of-a-kind album by the hip-hop group Wu-Tang Clan, only to learn that the convicted pharmaceutical executive made copies and is releasing the music to the public.
Shkreli paid $2 million in 2015 for "Once Upon a Time in Shaolin," and gave it up to partially satisfy a $7.4 million... (continue reading...)
By Brendan Pierson
(Reuters) - U.S. manufacturing and chemical industry groups have filed a lawsuit seeking to block a federal rule announced this year setting the first-ever drinking water standard to protect people against toxic "forever chemicals."
The rule is intended to reduce exposure to the group of 15,000 chemicals known as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) for approximately 100 million people. It would avoid deaths that... (continue reading...)
(Reuters) -WeWork said CEO David Tolley would step down after the flexible workspace provider emerges from bankruptcy later on Tuesday and the company will name a new top boss.
Late last month, WeWork received approval from a U.S. bankruptcy judge for a restructuring plan.
Once privately valued at about $47 billion, WeWork expanded at a breakneck pace but racked up steep losses on its over-extended real estate portfolio before filing for... (continue reading...)
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