New York City congestion program collected $48.6 million in January

By David Shepardson (Reuters) – New York City collected $48.6 million in revenue from the first month of its congestion pricing program that the Trump administration has moved to kill, a transit agency said. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) said on Monday that in January the program reduced congestion and raised $48.6 million with $11.1…

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Apple pulls data protection feature in UK amid government demands

By Aditya Soni and Stephen Nellis (Reuters) – Apple is scrapping its most advanced security encryption feature for cloud data in Britain, the company said on Friday, an unprecedented response to government demands for access to user data. The change affects a feature called Advanced Data Protection (ADP), which extends end-to-end encryption across a wide…

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Trump administration can continue mass firings of federal workers, US judge rules

By Jack Queen and Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) – The Trump administration can for now continue its mass firings of federal employees, a federal judge ruled on Thursday, rejecting a bid by a group of labor unions to halt President Donald Trump’s dramatic downsizing of the roughly 2.3 million-strong federal workforce. The ruling by U.S. District…

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Exclusive-Barrick Gold signs agreement with Mali to end mining dispute

By Divya Rajagopal, Portia Crowe and Giulia Paravicini (Reuters) -Canadian miner Barrick Gold has signed a new agreement with the Malian government to end an almost two-year-old dispute over its mining assets in the West African country, two people familiar with the developments told Reuters on Wednesday.   Barrick has signed the agreement and it is…

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FAA says Musk DOGE team will help engineer solutions on airspace reforms

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Personnel from Elon Musk’s government downsizing team DOGE will make additional visits to Federal Aviation Administration facilities as they assist in efforts to modernize U.S. national airspace, the acting head of the agency said on Wednesday. Acting FAA Administrator Chris Rocheleau said the DOGE team — which visited the Air…

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Analysis-Trump’s SEC leader shifts power from investors to boardrooms

By Ross Kerber (Reuters) – New policies from the top U.S. securities regulator hand corporate boards more power over investors in ways that could curtail investor-initiated reform efforts on everything from climate policy to director contests, experts say. Since last month when U.S. President Donald Trump named Mark Uyeda acting chair of the Securities and…

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US judge blocks Trump from removing Democrat from government workplace board

(Reuters) – A federal judge on Tuesday ordered a Democrat who served as the chair of a U.S. agency that hears appeals by federal government employees when they are fired or disciplined to be temporarily reinstated after Republican U.S. President Donald Trump fired her. U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras in Washington issued a temporary restraining…

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Baidu share slide wipes $2.4 billion off market value amid speculation over Xi meeting

HONG KONG (Reuters) – The Hong Kong shares of Baidu plunged on Monday, wiping $2.4 billion off its market value, after the founder of the Chinese search engine giant was not spotted at a rare meeting between President Xi Jinping and corporate leaders. Xi hosted a symposium in Beijing with the country’s top tycoons, including…

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