Jennifer Lopez cancels 'This Is Me...Live' tour to be with family
By Danielle Broadway and Rollo Ross LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Jennifer Lopez said on Friday that her "This Is Me... Live" Summer concert tour has been canceled so she can take time to be with her family. Representatives of Live Nation also announced ...
May 31, 2024
Biden vetoes congressional disapproval of SEC accounting bulletin on crypto assets
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday vetoed a congressional disapproval of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's accounting bulletin on crypto assets. "By virtue of invoking the Congressional Review Act, this Republican...
May 31, 2024
US NTSB to probe Wednesday's near-miss between planes at Washington airport
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The National Transportation Safety Board said on Friday it will open an investigation into a near-collision earlier this week between an American Airlines jet and a small airplane at Reagan Washington Nati...
May 31, 2024
Trump supporters turn US flags upside down to protest guilty verdict
By Tim Reid, Alexandra Ulmer and Helen Coster WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Upside-down American flags emerged outside homes and on social media on Friday in support of Donald Trump after a New York jury returned a historic guilty verdict against the form...
May 31, 2024
US congressional leaders invite Netanyahu to address joint meeting of Congress
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The leaders of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives have invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address a joint meeting of Congress, House Speaker Mike Johnson announced on Friday, t...
May 31, 2024
Massachusetts man admits to fraud tied to bogus $4 billion Getty Images bid
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) - A Massachusetts man agreed to plead guilty to securities fraud for artificially inflating the stock price of Getty Images Holdings, including through a bogus $4 billion takeover bid for the visual media company, auth...
May 31, 2024
An angry Trump vows to keep fighting after guilty verdict
(This story contains strong language in paragraph 17) By Helen Coster, Gram Slattery and Alexandra Ulmer NEW YORK (Reuters) - Donald Trump stared down a bank of cameras inside Trump Tower on Friday and delivered a message fitting for both his legal...
May 31, 2024
Agency approves plan to hike US stamp prices to 73 cents
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A request by the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to raise prices of first-class mail stamps to 73 cents from 68 cents effective July 14 has been approved, regulators said Friday. The plan, announced in April and approved by the Po...
May 31, 2024
Exclusive-One in 10 Republicans less likely to vote for Trump after guilty verdict, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds
By Jason Lange WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ten percent of Republican registered voters say they are less likely to vote for Donald Trump following his felony conviction for falsifying business records to cover up a hush money payment to a porn star, acc...
May 31, 2024
Biden: Criticism of Trump jury verdict is 'dangerous, irresponsible'
By Steve Holland and Jarrett Renshaw WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden said on Friday that it was "dangerous" for people to question the integrity of the guilty verdict in Donald Trump's hush money jury trial. In his first public comments ...
May 31, 2024
US CFPB sues student loan servicer for illegal collections
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) -The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau sued the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency, accusing the student loan servicer of illegally collecting on loans that have been discharged in bankruptcy, and send...
May 31, 2024
Giuliani should be disbarred over election case, DC ethics board says
By David Thomas (Reuters) - Rudy Giuliani should be stripped of his law license for his work on a failed lawsuit challenging former President Donald Trump's 2020 U.S. election loss in Pennsylvania, a Washington, D.C. disciplinary board recommended ...
May 31, 2024
UN biodiversity summit chief: Make peace with nature or risk more war
By Jake Spring SAO PAULO (Reuters) - The world must make peace with nature or risk fueling more global conflicts like the war in Gaza, the president of the upcoming United Nations COP16 biodiversity summit said on Friday. The October summit in Colo...
May 31, 2024
Trump says he will appeal guilty verdict in hush money case
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Donald Trump, who became the first U.S. president convicted of a crime after a jury found him guilty of falsifying business records, said on Friday he would appeal the verdict. "We're going to be appealing this scam," Trump tol...
May 31, 2024
US Senator Manchin registers as an independent
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia, a longtime Democrat who often bucked his party leadership, said on Friday he had registered as an independent with no party affiliation. "Our national politics are broken and neither part...
May 31, 2024
Texas top court won't guarantee right to abortion in complicated pregnancies
(Reuters) - Texas' highest court on Friday refused to ensure that doctors are not prosecuted for abortions they believe are necessary in medically complicated pregnancies, rejecting a lawsuit by 22 patients and physicians. The Texas Supreme Court's...
May 31, 2024
Factbox-Why have temperatures reached record highs in India?
By Sakshi Dayal NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Several parts of India grappled with unusually high temperatures this week, forcing schools to close and hospitals to create special units to treat heat-related illnesses, while workers on construction sites we...
May 31, 2024
Trump's foreign allies lambast conviction, others keep their counsel
(Reuters) - Donald Trump's foreign allies, from Hungary's Viktor Orban to Britain's Nigel Farage, rallied to his defence saying his trial was politically motivated, while others reacted cautiously, aware they may have to work with him as president ...
May 31, 2024
Glencore's climate action plan wins more support from shareholders
LONDON (Reuters) - A majority of Glencore investors have indicated they were satisfied with the commodities giant's plans to reduce carbon emissions, just as it gets closer to completing its acquisition of Teck Resources' steelmaking coal business....
May 31, 2024
Pakistan battles forest fires amidst heat wave
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Authorities in Pakistan battled forest fires in multiple areas, including the capital Islamabad, on Friday as the country grappled with heat waves and dry weather. Officials are yet to confirm if the fires are related to the h...
May 31, 2024
Analysis-After Trump's conviction, the jury is still out on political damage
By James Oliphant, Helen Coster, Tim Reid and Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Donald Trump made history on Thursday as the first former U.S. president convicted of a crime. But his ultimate judgment won't come until November when he faces Amer...
May 31, 2024
White House race plunges into uncharted territory as Trump awaits July sentencing
By Luc Cohen and Jack Queen NEW YORK (Reuters) - Donald Trump, the first U.S. president convicted of a crime, will face a new milestone in his historic effort to regain the White House when a judge decides on July 11 whether to send him to prison o...
May 31, 2024
Biden wants to talk abortion, Trump immigration in CNN debate
By Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The presidential campaigns of Democrat Joe Biden and Republican Donald Trump know what they want to talk about in their high-stakes television debate next month, and now they're trying to convince news net...
May 31, 2024
Music lovers enjoy opera and picnics with the sheep at Glyndebourne
By Dylan Martinez and David Milliken GLYNDE, England (Reuters) - Nestled in the English countryside 50 miles (80 km) south of London, the Glyndebourne opera festival's setting is a world away from the city-centre opera houses which dominate the art...
May 31, 2024
Bitter spring frosts decimate apple crop in Crimea
KURSKOE, Crimea (Reuters) - At the foot of soaring white cliffs on the Crimean Peninsula lies an orchard whose apple trees should be growing heavy with fruit this time of year. But nearly all of the blossom on the 165-hectare farm was killed off by...
May 31, 2024