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☆ Global climate protests demand world leaders phase out fossil fuels
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-15 | by ( Kate Abnett | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Organizers of the protests expect global turnout over the weekend to total more than a million people. "This is directed at world leaders," said Mitzi Jonelle Tan, a climate activist with youth movement Fridays for Future in Manila, the Philippines. We need a just transition, and we need to phase out the fossil fuels causing the destruction of our environment," she told Reuters. The burning of fossil fuels is the main cause of climate change, but countries have never agreed in U.N. climate talks to phase out fossil fuels - though they have committed to phase down use of coal power. Despite having plentiful solar energy resources, Africa received only 2% of global investments in renewable energy over the last two decades, the International Renewable Energy Agency has said.

Persons: Greta Thunberg, Mitzi Jonelle Tan, Eric Njuguna, U.N, General Antonio Guterres, Kate Abnett, Katy Daigle, Aurora Ellis Organizations: United States, Organizers, Reuters, Governments, International Renewable Energy Agency, General Assembly, Thomson Locations: COP28, BRUSSELS, Pakistan, Nigeria, United, Swedish, Manila, Philippines, Nairobi, Kenya, U.N, Africa, New York

HAVANA, Sept 15 (Reuters) - United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday praised efforts to support the Global South in the international arena as he opened a summit of the G77 group of developing nations and China with host Cuba. The focus is the scientific and technological divide between rich and poor countries and its impact on development. Guterres said greater international equality was essential to building the consensus needed to tackle climate change and inequality. "The world is failing developing nations" he said, expressing the hope that the meeting would strengthen participants' clout on a wide range of issues. While more than 90 delegations are participating in the summit, which ends on Saturday, only a few dozen are led by heads of state.

Persons: Antonio Guterres, Guterres, Miguel Diaz, Canel, Diaz, Marc Frank, Nelson Acosta, Aurora Ellis Organizations: United Nations, Global, Thomson Locations: HAVANA, China, Cuba, United States, Cuban, Beijing

☆ The Trials of Aurora: A Colorado City’s Deep Divide Over Policing
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-15 | by ( Audra D. S. Burch | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

I asked him if he thought good policing was possible. “The policing problem is that you have 90 percent good police officers, but that 10 percent or 5 percent, whatever the scientific number is, is enough to taint it. “There have been so many questionable incidents with the police involving Black residents,” Mayes said. Like Black voters across the country who have indicated support for fair policing in national polls, they took pains to explain that they were not against policing itself. “It’s just really hurtful,” Fields told a local radio station when the news broke.

Persons: ” Mayes, ‘, Mayes, —, “, ” Rhonda Fields, ”, Fields, Matthew Green, McClain, “ It’s, ” Fields, you’re Organizations: City Council, Aurora, Colorado’s, Aurora Police Department Locations: Vietnam, Black, America, Aurora

☆ Ketanji Brown Jackson urges teaching of US history of racism
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-15 | by ( Andrew Chung | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/2] U.S. Supreme Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson waves during a photo opportunity outside the U.S. Supreme Court following an investiture ceremony for Justice Jackson at the court in Washington, U.S., September 30, 2022. Jackson used part of her speech as a warning against "complacency and ignorance." "Learning about our country's history can be painful, but history is also our best teacher," she said. Jackson's speech comes at a time of conflict in several states over the teaching of history in schools, especially in Florida, which has restricted some educational efforts regarding racism, slavery and LGBTQ rights. In July, the state sparked controversy by approving new guidelines on teaching Black history, including how enslaved people acquired skills for "personal benefit."

Persons: Ketanji Brown Jackson, Justice Jackson, Kevin Lamarque, Jackson, Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley, Denise McNair, Ron DeSantis, Andrew Chung, Aurora Ellis Organizations: U.S, REUTERS, Supreme, Baptist Church, Ku Klux, Civil, Republican, African American Studies, Black, Thomson Locations: Washington , U.S, United States, Birmingham , Alabama, Birmingham, Florida, New York

☆ Planned Parenthood to resume abortions in Wisconsin for first time since 2022
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-14 | by ( Julia Harte | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

A sign is pictured at the entrance to a Planned Parenthood building in New York August 31, 2015./File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsSept 14 (Reuters) - Planned Parenthood will resume abortion care at two facilities in Wisconsin for the first time in more than a year, it said on Thursday following a county court ruling that an 1849 state law did not apply to most consensual abortions. In the wake of that ruling, abortion care will again be available starting on Monday at Planned Parenthood centers in Milwaukee and Madison, according to Tanya Atkinson, the president of Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin. The people of Wisconsin have been without this essential and necessary care for over a year," said Atkinson in a video statement. Planned Parenthood, the state's biggest abortion provider, is the first to make the announcement. "Planned Parenthood is more concerned about their bottom line and keeping abortion dollars in Wisconsin than finding a way to help women in unplanned pregnancies," said Heather Weininger, the head of Wisconsin Right to Life, in a statement.

Persons: Wade, Tanya Atkinson, Atkinson, Roe, Janet Protasiewicz's, Heather Weininger, Tony Evers, Evers, Julia Harte, Colleen Jenkins, Aurora Ellis Organizations: U.S, Supreme, Circuit, Democratic, Thomson Locations: New York, Wisconsin, Wisconsin's Dane, Milwaukee, Madison, United States

☆ A stranded luxury cruise ship was stuck in Greenland for 3 days. It's finally been pulled free.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-14 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The 206 passengers on a luxury cruise ship will be heading home soon. The MV Ocean Explorer ran aground in a isolated part of Greenland on Monday. The name of the Greenland ship was Tarajoq and it belongs to the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, a government agency. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe Bahamas-flagged cruise ship has passengers from Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, the United Kingdom and the United States. The others on the MV Ocean Explorer were "safe and healthy," it added.

Persons: Steven Fraser, Fraser Organizations: Ocean Explorer, Greenland, Service, Arctic Command, Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, Aurora Expeditions, Expeditions, Sydney Morning Herald, DR, Danish Maritime Authority, Ships, Command Locations: Greenland, Monday, Wall, Silicon, Copenhagen, Alpefjord, France, Spain, Ittoqqortoormiit, Nuuk, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, United Kingdom, United States, Greenland's, Kirkenes, Arctic Norway, Bergen, Norway

View of the Ocean Explorer, a luxury cruise ship carrying 206 people that ran aground, in Alpefjord, Greenland, September 13, 2023. Danish Air Force/Arctic Command/Handout via REUTERS/File photo Acquire Licensing RightsCOPENHAGEN, Sept 14 (Reuters) - A luxury cruise ship that ran aground this week in a remote part of Greenland with 206 people on board was pulled free by a fishing trawler on Thursday. The Ocean Explorer cruise vessel had been stuck since Monday in mud and silt in the Alpefjord national park, some 1,400 km (870 miles) northeast of Greenland's capital Nuuk. The Ocean Explorer leaned to the side during the operation and passengers were not allowed to go outside, Hill said. Sydney-based Aurora Expeditions, which chartered the ship and organised the cruise, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Persons: Gina Hill, Hill, SunStone, Essi Lehto, Louise Breusch Rasmussen, Terje Solsvik, Mark Porter Organizations: Danish Air Force, Arctic Command, REUTERS, Rights, Reuters, Maritime Group, Aurora Expeditions, Thomson Locations: Alpefjord, Greenland, Rights COPENHAGEN, Greenland's, Nuuk, Danish, Sydney, Denmark

☆ A Luxury Cruise Ship Is Stuck Off Greenland’s Coast
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-14 | by ( Eduardo Medina | More About Eduardo Medina | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A luxury cruise ship carrying 206 passengers and crew members has been stuck in the cold northern waters of Greenland since Monday after it ran aground. The ship — named the Ocean Explorer and operated by Aurora Expeditions, a cruise company based in Australia — had been traveling toward Alpefjord, which is in a remote corner of Greenland. Its destination was the Northeast Greenland National Park, which is the northernmost national park in the world and is home to icebergs, glaciers and high mountains. The Joint Arctic Command, which is part of Denmark’s defense forces, said on Facebook on Tuesday that there were no injuries on board the Ocean Explorer and that there is no threat to the environment. On Wednesday, a fishing research vessel owned by the government of Greenland tried unsuccessfully to pull the Ocean Explorer at high tide.

Persons: —, Australia — Organizations: Ocean, Aurora Expeditions, Northeast, Arctic Command, Facebook Locations: Greenland, Australia, Alpefjord, Northeast Greenland, Denmark

☆ US raises Mexico air safety rating in boost for country's airlines
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-14 | by ( David Shepardson | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

A view shows an area of the Felipe Angeles International airport, in Zumpango, on the outskirts of Mexico City, Mexico August 25, 2022. Mexico was downgraded by the U.S. regulator in May 2021 after the agency found the country did not meet safety standards. The downgrade was a major blow to Mexico carriers, as U.S. airlines were able to scoop up market share. Mexico overhauled its civil aviation law, but faced several hurdles and spent years in recovering the Category 1 rating. The return of Mexico to the highest aviation safety rating followed "more than two years of close work between the countries' civil aviation authorities," the FAA said in a statement.

Persons: Henry Romero, Jorge Nuno, Aeromexico, David Shepardson, Valentine Hilaire, Kylie Madry, Aurora Ellis, Richard Chang, Marguerita Choy Organizations: Felipe Angeles International, REUTERS, Rights, Federal Aviation Administration, FAA, Reuters, Airlines, U.S, Mexico's, Local, Thomson Locations: Zumpango, Mexico City, Mexico, U.S, Canada

☆ Morocco earthquake lights: strange light phenomenon before some quakes is a long standing mystery
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-14 | by ( Katie Hunt | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —Reports of “earthquake lights,” like the ones seen in videos captured before Friday’s 6.8-magnitude earthquake in Morocco, go back centuries to ancient Greece. He has coauthored several scientific papers on earthquake lights, or EQL. To better understand earthquake lights, Derr and his colleagues gathered information on 65 American and European earthquakes associated with trustworthy reports of earthquake lights dating back to 1600. Other theories about what causes earthquake lights include static electricity produced by the fracturing of rock and radon emanation, among many others. At present there is no consensus among seismologists on the mechanism that causes earthquake lights, and scientists are still trying to unlock the mysteries of these outbursts.

Persons: there’s, ”, John Derr, Juan Antonio Lira Cacho, Derr, Antonio Lira, Freund, Derr’s, “ Organizations: CNN —, Friday’s, Geological Survey, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, CNN, Geophysics, San Jose University, NASA Ames Research Center Locations: Morocco, Greece, Pisco, Peru, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, China, Sichuan, Earthquakes, Guayaquil, Ecuador

Earlier this week, the cruise ship made two failed attempts to float free on its own during high tide. The cruise ship ran aground above the Arctic Circle on Monday in Alpefjord, which is in the Northeast Greenland National Park. The Greenland Nature Institute’s fisheries research vessel Tarajoq attempted to pull the Ocean Explorer free at high tide on Wednesday morning. “Unfortunately, the attempt was not successful,” said the Danish Joint Arctic Command, which was coordinating the operation to free the cruise ship. The cruise ship is operated by Australia-based Aurora Expeditions and has passengers from Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Persons: ”, Knud Rasmussen, Steven Fraser, Gina Hill, ” Fraser Organizations: Arctic Command, Aurora Expeditions, Sydney Morning Herald, Sirius, Command Locations: COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Bahamas, Greenland, Alpefjord, France, Spain, Ittoqqortoormiit, Nuuk, Danish, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, United Kingdom, United States

☆ Cruise ship Ocean Explorer runs aground in Greenland
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-13 | by ( Zahid Mahmood | James Frater | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —A cruise ship carrying 206 passengers and crew has run aground on a remote stretch of Greenland and could potentially be stuck for days waiting for the nearest ship to arrive to help. The Ocean Explorer got into trouble on Monday in Alpefjord, a dramatic and rugged stretch of Northeast Greenland National Park, and has not been able to free itself, according to a statement from Denmark’s Joint Arctic Command (JAC). “As soon as we realized that the Ocean Explorer could not get free on its own, we sent a ship towards the wreck,” Arctic Commander Brian Jensen said. Jensen said the Ocean Explorer could still re-float on a high tide, but failing that, the Knud Rasmussen would assist. According to the statement, the Government of Greenland, the Danish Maritime Authority and the Danish Accident Investigation Board have been informed of the incident.

Persons: ”, Knud Rasmussen, Brian Jensen, “, Jensen, Tamara Hardingham, Gill Organizations: CNN, Arctic Command, Aurora Expeditions, Command, Danish Maritime Authority, Danish Locations: Greenland, Alpefjord, Northeast Greenland, Government

☆ ‘Earthquake lights’ phenomenon is a long-standing scientific mystery. Here’s what experts think is behind them
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-13 | by ( Katie Hunt | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Persons: there’s, ”, John Derr, Juan Antonio Lira Cacho, Derr, Antonio Lira, Freund, Derr’s, “ Organizations: CNN —, Friday’s, Geological Survey, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, Geophysics, San Jose University, NASA Ames Research Center Locations: Morocco, Greece, Pisco, Peru, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, China, Sichuan, Earthquakes, Guayaquil, Ecuador

☆ Luxury cruise ship remains stuck in Greenland as tide fails to help
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-13 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

View of the Ocean Explorer, a luxury cruise ship carrying 206 people that ran aground, in Alpefjord, Greenland, September 12, 2023. Danish Air Force/Arctic Command/Handout via REUTERS Acquire Licensing RightsHELSINKI, Sept 13 (Reuters) - A luxury cruise ship carrying 206 people remained stuck in a remote Greenland location on Wednesday after running aground earlier this week, the vessel's operator and rescue services said. The Danish military's Joint Arctic Command (JAC) said Tuesday's tide had failed to lift the 104-metre (341-foot) Ocean Explorer enough to free it. Photos taken by a Danish air force plane on Tuesday showed the Ocean Explorer sitting upright in calm waters with the sun shining. The JAC said it remained in contact with nearby ships to see whether they would be able to help free the Ocean Explorer.

Persons: JAC, Aurora, Essi Lehto, Terje Solsvik, Christina Fincher Organizations: Danish Air Force, Arctic Command, REUTERS Acquire, Rights, Aurora Expeditions, Thomson Locations: Alpefjord, Greenland, Danish, Sydney, Greenland's, Nuuk, Denmark

Final Crop Watch soy yield across the Iowa and Illinois locations averaged 4.625 in 2021 and 4.375 in 2022. CORNThe 11-field, average Crop Watch corn yield fell to a season-low of 3.61 from 3.7 last week, an equal decline as in the previous two weeks. Crop Watch corn yield was 3.68 this week last year and 3.82 in 2021. Six of the 11 Crop Watch corn fields carry a yield score of 4 or better with a high of 4.5 in Ohio. Photos of the Crop Watch fields can be tracked on my Twitter feed using handle @kannbwx.

Persons: Dane Rhys Acquire, Karen Braun, Aurora Ellis Organizations: REUTERS, Rights, Crop Watch, Crop, Iowa, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Deerfield , Ohio, U.S, Rights NAPERVILLE , Illinois, Iowa, Illinois, Corn, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, Ohio . North Dakota , Nebraska, Ohio . Minnesota, North Dakota, Kingsbury , South Dakota, Freeborn , Minnesota, Burt , Nebraska, Rice , Kansas, Audubon , Iowa, Cedar , Iowa, Warren , Illinois, Crawford , Illinois, Tippecanoe , Indiana, Fairfield , Ohio, The North Dakota, Griggs County, Stutsman County

As the series creator, he was keen to continue the story of the family in "Young Love," which premieres on Sept. 21 and runs for 12 episodes. "Hair Love" unpacks the story of a Black father named Stephen trying to do his seven-year-old daughter Zuri's hair for the first time while his wife Angela is in the hospital receiving chemotherapy for cancer. "Young Love" picks up after Angela's return home from treatment, exploring the life of the multigenerational family in Chicago, where Cherry grew up. "Young Love" is another chapter in the short film's expansion. "Hair Love" has already been adapted into a New York Times bestselling book, the Dove Kids Hair Love collection and used as a pillar in the passing of the CROWN Act, a bill that aims to end hair discrimination in the United States.

Persons: Matthew A, Cherry, Stephen, Angela, Issa Rae, Zuri, Angela's, Rae, Loretta Devine, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Kid Cudi, Henry Lennix, Cudi, Danielle Broadway, Eric Cox, Mary Milliken, Aurora Ellis Organizations: Reuters, YouTube, New York Times, Thomson Locations: Chicago, United States, Los Angeles

☆ French watchdog halts iPhone 12 sales over too-high radiation - minister
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

REUTERS/ Regis Duvignau/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsPARIS, Sept 12 (Reuters) - Apple must stop selling its iPhone 12 model in France due to above-threshold radiation levels, France's junior minister for the digital economy told newspaper Le Parisien in an interview published on Tuesday. France's radiation watchdog ANFR notified Apple of its decision to ban iPhone 12 sales after it had carried out tests which showed the smartphone's Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) was slightly higher than legally allowed, Jean-Noel Barrot told the paper. Barrot said a software update would be sufficient to fix the radiation issues linked to the phone which the U.S. company has been selling since 2020. The French watchdog will now pass on its findings to regulators in other EU member states. In 2020, France widened regulations requiring retailers to display the radiation value of products on packaging beyond cell phones, including tablets and other electronic devices.

Persons: Regis, Le, Jean, Noel Barrot, Barrot, Tassilo Hummel, Aurora Ellis Organizations: Apple, REUTERS, Rights, Le Parisien, U.S ., European Union, Thomson Locations: Lusignac, France, U.S

☆ Migrants 'from all over the globe' gather between California border barriers
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( Mike Blake | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/5] Migrants look through the border fence towards food brought by aid workers after gathering between the primary and secondary border fences between Mexico and the United States where they await processing by U.S immigration in San Diego, U.S., September 12, 2023. Reuters images show people queuing around U.S. border patrol officers as they give directions. "We were hoping that they would be able to move quickly by the agency, provided the experience from May. Yet we have a situation of hundreds of people again waiting in between the two barriers." Reporting by Mike Blake and Jane Ross; Editing by Mary Milliken and Aurora EllisOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Mike Blake TPX, Adriana Jasso, Jasso, Hassan Hamza, Hamza, Mike Blake, Jane Ross, Mary Milliken, Aurora Ellis Organizations: REUTERS, DIEGO, Aid, . Customs, Protection, American Friends Service Committee, United Nations, Thomson Locations: Mexico, United States, San Diego , U.S, Africa, Asia, Latin, San Diego, U.S, Cameroon, West Africa, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Vietnam, Ghana, Brazil, America

☆ Cannabis ETFs boom as HHS recommendation to ease restrictions raises hopes for federal reform
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( Stefan Sykes | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

An employee of Aurora Deutschland GmbH, a manufacturer of medical Cannabis products, inspects a flowering Cannabis plant in a greenhouse in Leuna, Germany September 11, 2023. Marijuana-related ETFs are soaring in September as investors flood back into the sector after months of waning interest. It marked a swift turnaround for a quasi-legal industry curtailed by the anemic pace of federal reform. Last month's announcement also sent shares of several cannabis companies higher, including Canopy Growth, Tilray Brands and Cronos Group. At the time of the closure announcement, fund co-founder Morgan Paxhia told CNBC that it was not "immune to the broader macroeconomic environment and, more specifically, the dramatic shift in investor sentiment that has impacted the cannabis industry."

Persons: Canaccord, Matt Bottomley, Morgan Paxhia Organizations: Aurora Deutschland GmbH, U.S . Department of Health, Human Services, Dow Jones Industrial, Dow, Tilray Brands, Cronos Group, Marijuana, CNBC Locations: Leuna, Germany

☆ Luxury cruise ship carrying 206 people runs aground in remote Greenland
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

COPENHAGEN, Sept 12 (Reuters) - A luxury cruise ship carrying 206 people has run aground in remote eastern Greenland with the nearest help by sea days away, the Danish military's Joint Arctic Command (JAC) said on Tuesday. The Ocean Explorer ran aground on Monday in Alpefjord in a national park some 1,400 km (870 miles) northeast of Greenland's capital Nuuk, the JAC said in a statement. "A cruise ship in trouble in the national park is obviously a worry. A spokesperson for Australian cruise operator Aurora Expeditions said in an emailed statement everyone on board was safe and well. The Arctic command said it had asked a cruise ship located nearer to the Ocean Explorer to stay in the area so that it would be able to assist in case the situation changes.

Persons: JAC, Brian Jensen, Louise Breusch Rasmussen, Terje Solsvik, Nick Macfie Organizations: Arctic Command, Explorer, Aurora Expeditions, Thomson Locations: COPENHAGEN, Greenland, Danish, Alpefjord, Greenland's, Nuuk

☆ US Caver Who Was Trapped 1,000 Metres Deep in Turkey May Be Rescued by Tuesday
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( Sept. | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +2 min

ANKARA (Reuters) - An American caver who had become trapped more than 1,000 metres (3,300 ft) underground in southern Turkey has been moved closer to the surface and is expected to be rescued by Tuesday morning, rescuers said. Previous footage from the operation showed Dickey lying inside the cave and receiving treatment by a medical team. It is a very particular phase of the cave here because there are so many slopes it is a bit tricky," Giuseppe Conti, European Cave Rescue Association technical commission chairperson, told reporters. More than 150 rescuers from Turkey and other countries have been working for days to rescue him from the country's third deepest cave. "The rescue operation will continue from the -180 meters after Mark has rested at the camp here for a while.

Persons: Mark Dickey, Tulga Sener, Dickey, Sener, Mark, Giuseppe Conti, Conti, Ali Kucukgocmen, Aurora Ellis Organizations: Cave Rescue, Rescue Association, Speleological Federation of, Ece Locations: ANKARA, American, Turkey, Mersin, Cave, Speleological Federation of Turkey

Those lawyers and representatives for OpenAI did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Monday. The lawsuit is at least the third proposed copyright-infringement class action filed by authors against Microsoft-backed OpenAI. Companies, including Microsoft (MSFT.O), Meta Platforms (META.O) and Stability AI, have also been sued by copyright owners over the use of their work in AI training. OpenAI and other companies have argued that AI training makes fair use of copyrighted material scraped from the internet. The lawsuit requested an unspecified amount of money damages and an order blocking OpenAI's "unlawful and unfair business practices."

Persons: Dado Ruvic, Michael Chabon, Chabon, David Henry Hwang, Matthew Klam, Rachel Louise Snyder, Ayelet Waldman, ChatGPT, Blake Brittain, David Bario, Aurora Ellis Organizations: REUTERS, Microsoft, OpenAI, San, Thomson Locations: San Francisco, Washington

Circuit Court of Appeals for a new ruling to prevent the "improper result" of allowing parts of the lower court order "to regain effect even after having been held invalid by this court." The plaintiffs allege that U.S. officials lobby social media platforms to suppress what the government considers to be misinformation, violating users' right to free speech under the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment. While the case was still at an early stage, Doughty issued a preliminary injunction banning a wide range of communications between a slew of officials and social media companies. The panel limited the injunction's reach to a smaller group of officials, including White House staff, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. It said that the 5th Circuit should either put the parts of Doughty's order that it reversed on hold, or finalize its order immediately.

Persons: Dado Ruvic, Joe Biden's, Terry Doughty, Doughty, Brendan Pierson, Alexia Garamfalvi, Aurora Ellis Organizations: REUTERS, Justice Department, U.S, Circuit, Appeals, Biden, Democrat, District, X Corp, White House, Centers for Disease Control, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Supreme, Thomson Locations: Louisiana, Missouri, Monroe , Louisiana, New York

☆ EU antitrust regulators halt Amazon, iRobot probe, await info
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

The logo of Amazon is seen at the company logistics center in Lauwin-Planque, northern France, November 15, 2022. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol///File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsBRUSSELS, Sept 11 (Reuters) - EU antitrust regulators have delayed their investigation into Amazon's (AMZN.O) $1.7 billion acquisition of robot vacuum cleaner maker iRobot (IRBT.O) as they wait for the companies to provide requested information. "Once the missing information is supplied by the parties, the clock is re-started and the deadline for the Commission's decision is then adjusted accordingly." The EU competition watchdog's previous deadline for its decision on the deal was Dec. 13. It has warned Amazon that the deal may reduce competition in robot vacuum cleaners and also reinforce the U.S. company's dominant position as an online marketplace provider.

Persons: Pascal Rossignol, Foo Yun Chee, Aurora Ellis Organizations: REUTERS, Rights, European Commission, Thomson Locations: Lauwin, France, Rights BRUSSELS

☆ What to expect when Google faces the DOJ in the first major tech monopoly trial in decades
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( Lauren Feiner | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +13 min

While the trial marks the tech sector's first major anti-monopoly proceeding in decades, Google is squarely in the middle of its antitrust battles. What the trial is aboutA key focus of the trial will be on two kinds of agreements Google has made with other companies. "The cases have very compatible theories, and the core message from both is that Google's monopoly power has been abused, harming competition and hurting consumers," Weiser said. Walker wrote that the abundance of places where consumers can use online search shows that Google hasn't foreclosed competition. In addition to experts like economists, expect to see Google executives called to the stand, potentially including CEO Sundar Pichai.

Persons: Sundar Pichai, Jonathan Kanter, It's, it's, Google's, Microsoft's Bing, Phil Weiser, Weiser, Elijah McClain, Aaron Ontiveroz, Bing, Global Affairs Kent Walker, Walker, Rebecca Haw Allensworth, Bill Kovacic, Tim Cook, Joe Biden, Anna Moneymaker, Allensworth, conscientiously, What's, Google's Walker, Lee Hepner, Matt Schruers, Bard, OpenAI, Schruers Organizations: US Department of Justice, Getty, Department of Justice, Microsoft, DOJ, Google, of, Apple, Microsoft's, CNBC, Aurora, MediaNews, Denver, Global Affairs, Insider Intelligence, Amazon, Vanderbilt Law School, George Washington University Law School, FTC, White House, Mozilla, American Economic Liberties, Computer & Communications Industry Association Locations: U.S, Europe, Eastern, of Virginia, Colorado, Washington , DC

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