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Cerevel Therapeutics' Parkinson's disease drug meets main goal in late-stage study
(Reuters) - Cerevel Therapeutics said on Thursday its Parkinson's disease drug met the main goal of a late-stage trial. (Reporting by Sriparna Roy in Bengaluru; Editing by Savio D'Souza)
Elevance beats first-quarter profit estimates on higher premiums
(Reuters) - Elevance Health beat Wall Street estimates for first-quarter profit on Thursday, as higher premiums in its commercial insurance business helped keep medical costs for the insurer in check. On an adjusted basis, the company made a ...
After COVID, WHO defines disease spread 'through air'
By Jennifer Rigby LONDON (Reuters) - The World Health Organization and around 500 experts have agreed for the first time what it means for a disease to spread through the air, in a bid to avoid the confusion early in the COVID-19 pandemic that ...
Alec Baldwin's criminal case hinges on a Wild West revolver
By Andrew Hay TAOS, New Mexico (Reuters) - A Colt .45 "Peacemaker" revolver, a symbol of the American Wild West, is at the center of actor Alec Baldwin's fight to avoid criminal prosecution for the 2021 fatal shooting of "Rust" cinematographer ...
Exclusive-Mexico, facing US pressure, will halt incentives to Chinese EV makers
By Diego Oré MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's federal government, under pressure from the U.S., is keeping Chinese automakers at arm's length by refusing to offer such incentives as low-cost public land or tax cuts for investment in EV ...
Abortion, border dominate US Senate race in battleground Arizona
By Ted Hesson GOLDEN VALLEY, Arizona (Reuters) - A restrictive abortion ban revived in Arizona is providing a new opening for Democrats in the runup to the Nov. 5 election and putting Republicans in a tricky political bind as they try to win over ...
Parched Texas growing season looms as US, Mexico spar over water treaty
By Leah Douglas, Cassandra Garrison and Marcelo Teixeira (Reuters) - Texas farm groups warn of a disastrous season ahead for citrus and sugar as Mexican and U.S. officials try to resolve a dispute over a decades-old water treaty that supplies ...
Trump hush money jury selection resumes as lawyers probe for bias
By Jack Queen and Luc Cohen (Reuters) - Donald Trump is due in Manhattan court on Thursday as lawyers continue searching for jurors to decide the former U.S. president’s fate in a historic criminal trial just months before his upcoming rematch ...
UK's Rwanda asylum plan to be debated on April 22
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda will be debated on April 22 in the House of Commons, the government said on Thursday, setting the date for the latest stage in a protracted battle over the scheme. On Wednesday, ...
G7 foreign ministers seek urgent defence support for Ukraine
By Crispian Balmer and Angelo Amante CAPRI, Italy (Reuters) - Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven (G7) major powers warned on Thursday that Ukraine risked being defeated by Russia unless it received more air defences, as Kyiv urged a change ...