Following weeks of heated protests at the state capitol, Texas Gov. Rick Perry signed into law on Thursday a package of abortion restrictions that is expected to drastically reduce access to abortion across the state.
Toyota Motor Corp. won final approval of a settlement, valued at as much as $1.63 billion by plaintiff lawyers, with U.S. consumers who claimed that recalls related to sudden, unintended acceleration caused their vehicles to lose value.
BP Plc lost a bid to persuade a judge to temporarily halt payments from the court-supervised program administering its settlement of claims tied to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
Police are debating whether to honor a pledge to cut the use of tear gas against demonstrators, a commander said Thursday after a small protest boiled over into rioting in one of Rio´s wealthiest areas just days before a visit by Pope Francis.
A Brazilian newspaper on Tuesday published an article it said is based on documents provided by the former American contractor Edward Snowden asserting that the United States has been collecting data on telephone calls and e-mails from several countries in Latin America, including important allies such as Brazil, Colombia and Mexico.
Security forces in Brazil have banned masks at Pope Francis´s opening Mass at the Roman Catholic World Youth Day festival in Rio de Janeiro next week.
Detroit filed the largest municipal bankruptcy in the nation´s history Thursday, marking a new low in a long decline that has left the U.S. automaking capital bleeding residents and revenue while rendering city services a mess.
J.P. Morgan Chase is in discussions with U.S. electricity regulators about paying what would be a record fine to settle allegations that the bank manipulated electricity markets in California and the Midwest, according to people familiar with the talks.
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