Big city biotechs decamp for suburbs as property costs rise
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The biotech industry is facing high rents and tight lab space in Boston, New York and San Francisco, forcing companies into the suburbs in a sign the “live, work and play” movement into big cities may have hit a roadblock.
Ranchers in parched U.S. Northern Plains welcome hay lottery
(Reuters) – Hundreds of livestock ranchers in the drought-stricken U.S. Northern Plains are embracing what organizers say is the first lottery designed to provide some much-needed relief to their operations.
SEC drops case against ex-JPMorgan traders over ‘London Whale’
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The top U.S. securities regulator on Friday dropped its civil lawsuit accusing two former JPMorgan Chase & Co traders of trying to hide some of the bank’s $6.2 billion of losses tied to the 2012 “London Whale” scandal.
In Charlottesville, Germans sense echoes of their struggle with history
BERLIN/WEIMAR, Germany (Reuters) – For the past decade, the pupils of the Manfred von Ardenne school in Berlin have been visiting a local cemetery to tend the graves of victims of the Nazis.
Roadblocks, weapons bans as Boston braces for ‘Free Speech’ rally
BOSTON (Reuters) – Boston officials are planning road blockades and even banning food vendors from the historic Boston Common as they step up security around a “Free Speech” rally on Saturday featuring right-wing speakers, aiming to avoid a repeat of l…
U.S. State Department hit by system-wide email outage: official
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department’s email systems have been hit by a broad outage, a State Department official said on Friday.
California man on delayed honeymoon among Barcelona victims
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A 43-year-old California man on a delayed honeymoon was among the 13 people killed when a van plowed through a popular pedestrian area in the Spanish city of Barcelona, his family said on Friday.
Nestle defends ‘Kit Kat’ campaign against Atari ‘Breakout’ lawsuit
(Reuters) – Nestle SA on Friday paddled back claims in a new lawsuit in which Atari SA accused the Swiss food company of pilfering its classic 1970s video game “Breakout” to help sell Kit Kat chocolate-covered wafer bars.
Self-sufficient eclipse chasers hit the road to ‘totality’
(Reuters) – Michael Zeiler packed his portable toilet then headed out on a 10-hour drive from New Mexico to Wyoming where, on Monday, he intends to mark the ninth time he has seen the moon pass in front of the sun in a total solar eclipse.
Mayor says Lee statue must go as debate over U.S. slave past rages
RICHMOND, Va. (Reuters) – The mayor of Charlottesville called on Friday for a special session of Virginia’s legislature to let localities decide the fate of Confederate monuments like the statue at the center of a far-right rally last week that turned …
