U.S. lawmakers offer bill to curb patent lawsuits
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Two U.S. lawmakers introduced legislation on Monday to give companies another tool to fight lawsuits brought by companies that specialize in patent litigation.
Legal wrangling shadows Detroit bankruptcy filing
LANSING, Michigan (Reuters) – The tug of war over whether Detroit legally could file for municipal bankruptcy continues this week as the city seeks an initial hearing in U.S. federal court to put on hold challenges to the filing in Michigan court.
U.S. business groups urge Biden to press India on concerns
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. business groups on Monday urged Vice President Joe Biden to press India’s leaders this week to reverse course on a number of government policies they said unfairly harm U.S. companies that do business in the world’s largest …
Business groups push U.S. Congress to prevent import tax hike
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Business groups are pushing the U.S. Congress to pass legislation in the next nine days to prevent tariffs from rising on auto parts, tires, jewelry and other goods from developing countries under a trade benefits program that ex…
Obama to talk jobs in struggling Illinois town
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama returns on Wednesday to an Illinois town that has been a touchstone for his plan to rebuild America’s manufacturing sector, giving the first in a series of speeches that will set the tone for his fiscal bat…
Boehner refuses to take stand on key immigration provision
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner refused on Sunday to say whether a comprehensive immigration overhaul should include a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, declaring that the House debate is “not about m…
Candidates for governor of Virginia go on offensive in debate
RICHMOND, Virginia (Reuters) – Democrat Terry McAuliffe and Republican Ken Cuccinelli, running against each other for the Virginia governership, attacked each other on Saturday in their first debate, but both agreed the current governor should consider…
Longtime White House reporter Helen Thomas dies
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former White House correspondent Helen Thomas, a trailblazing journalist who reported on every U.S. president from John Kennedy to Barack Obama, died on Saturday at the age of 92, the Gridiron Club and Foundation said.
Biden calls Brazil’s Rousseff over NSA spying tensions
BRASILIA (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Joe Biden called Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on Friday to try to smooth tensions caused by allegations that the United States spied on Brazilian Internet communications, Rousseff’s office said.
Ex-CIA official detained in Panama returns to U.S.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former CIA Milan station chief Robert Seldon Lady, who was convicted in Italy of kidnapping an Egyptian Muslim cleric and detained in Panama this week, returned to the United States on Friday, a State Department spokeswoman said….
