US VP announces $1.5 billion for aid for Ukraine at peace summit in Switzerland
By Steve Holland LUCERNE, Switzerland (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris announced more than $1.5 billion in aid in part for Ukraine's energy sector and its humanitarian situation as a result of Russia's 27-month invasion of Ukraine. The...
Jun 15, 2024
Oil slick closes beaches on Singapore resort island
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Beaches on Singapore's Sentosa island were closed on Saturday after an oil spill spread from a nearby shipping terminal to the tourist haven south of the city-state. A Reuters witness saw tape cordoning off the oil stained wat...
Jun 15, 2024
Ex-US SEC head William Donaldson dies at 93
(Reuters) - William Donaldson, former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman and co-founder of Wall Street investment bank Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette has died, Yale University's School of Management said on Friday. Donaldson, who was al...
Jun 14, 2024
US Catholic bishops apologize to Native Americans for abuses, promise new outreach
By Joseph Ax (Reuters) - U.S. Catholic bishops offered an apology to Native Americans on Friday for the church's role in inflicting trauma on their communities and adopted new guidelines for ministering to indigenous Catholics. The new policies, ap...
Jun 14, 2024
Biden admin. loses bid to revive legal protections for LGBTQ students
By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Friday rejected the Biden administration's bid to revive its directive that schools allow transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms and to join sports teams that align with their g...
Jun 14, 2024
U.S. Justice Dept won't pursue contempt charges against Attorney General Merrick Garland
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department on Friday told Republican House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson that it would decline to pursue criminal contempt of Congress charges against Attorney General Merrick Garland, according to ...
Jun 14, 2024
Alex Jones' bankruptcy liquidation approved in court
By Dietrich Knauth NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. bankruptcy judge on Friday allowed conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to convert his bankruptcy case into a straightforward liquidation, saying he would quickly appoint an independent trustee to oversee th...
Jun 14, 2024
Rain-weary South Floridians await sun after days-long deluge
By Rich McKay (Reuters) - Nearly a week of torrential rainfall appeared to be winding down in South Florida on Friday after a slow-moving weather system dumped more than two feet (0.6 meters) of precipitation in the Everglades and a foot or more in...
Jun 14, 2024
House approves defense policy bill with divisive provision on abortion, transgender troops
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House Of Representatives on Friday passed its version of the annual defense policy bill that includes divisive social issues, such as abortion rights and treatment of transgender service members, which threaten to de...
Jun 14, 2024
US appeals court won't revive foreign agent case against casino mogul Wynn
By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Friday rejected a U.S. Justice Department attempt to revive a lawsuit accusing casino mogul Steve Wynn of lobbying then-President Donald Trump on behalf of China. Wynn, the forme...
Jun 14, 2024
Republican Senator Grassley launches new probe into Boeing, FAA
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican Senator Chuck Grassley said Friday he is launching a new congressional oversight inquiry into the Federal Aviation Administration and Boeing after a January mid-air emergency involving a 737 MAX 9. The probe is the...
Jun 14, 2024
Six years after US mass shooting, demolition starts on Parkland school building
By Gabriella Borter and Joseph Ax (Reuters) - More than six years after a gunman massacred 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, in one of the worst U.S. school shootings, crews began tearing down the abandoned bui...
Jun 14, 2024
Brazil workers overseeing oil licenses to strike as of June 24, union says
By Jake Spring and Fabio Teixeira RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Federal employees overseeing oil and gas licenses in Rio de Janeiro voted to strike starting on June 24, a workers union said on Friday, after months of failed negotiations with the Brazi...
Jun 14, 2024
African, Inter-American development banks on $20 billion IMF reserve asset donor drive
By Marc Jones LONDON (Reuters) - The heads of the African and Inter-American Development banks are touring North America, the Middle East, Korea and Brazil in a bid to secure $20 billion of IMF reserve assets which they want to turn into $80 billio...
Jun 14, 2024
Biden issuing executive order on supply chain resiliency efforts
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday is issuing an executive order formalizing a White House council on supply chain resilience and mandating a comprehensive report by the end of the year, officials said. The council made up of...
Jun 14, 2024
Fossils of 'sea phantom' flying reptile unearthed in Australia
By Will Dunham (Reuters) - Long ago in the skies above the shallow Eromanga Sea, which once covered what is now arid inland Australia, soared a formidable pterosaur - flying reptile - boasting a bony crest at the tip of its upper and lower jaws and...
Jun 14, 2024
US Supreme Court backs challenge to federal ban on gun 'bump stocks'
By Andrew Chung (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday ruled in favor of a challenge to a federal ban on "bump stock" devices that enable semiautomatic weapons to fire rapidly like machine guns, dealing a setback to yet another firearms restrictio...
Jun 14, 2024
US attack sub, Canada navy patrol ship arrive in Cuba on heels of Russian warships
HAVANA (Reuters) - A Canadian navy patrol ship sailed into Havana early on Friday, just hours after the United States announced a fast-attack submarine had docked at its Guantanamo naval base on Cuba, both vessels on the heels of Russian warships t...
Jun 14, 2024
G7 leaders commit to faster transition from fossil fuels - draft statement
BORGO EGNAZIA, Italy (Reuters) - Leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) developed democracies will commit to accelerating their transition away from fossil fuels during this decade, according to a draft of a statement to be issued at the end of their o...
Jun 14, 2024
Trump turns 78, spotlighting age as central issue in 2024 race
By Nathan Layne (Reuters) - Donald Trump turns 78 on Friday, a milestone that will remind voters that the two major-party candidates running for U.S. president this year are the oldest ever to seek the office. Age and mental sharpness have been at ...
Jun 14, 2024
Heavy rain, landslides kill 6 in India's Sikkim, 2,000 tourists stranded
By Tora Agarwala GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) - At least six people have been killed this week and around 2,000 tourists stranded in India's Himalayan state of Sikkim in landslides and floods after incessant rainfall, officials said on Friday. Another...
Jun 14, 2024
Wu-Tang Clan's single-print album to play at Australian museum
SYDNEY (Reuters) - U.S. hip-hop group Wu-Tang Clan's one-of-a-kind album "Once Upon A Time in Shaolin" will be played at a museum in Australia from Saturday and it has already seen overwhelming demand with free tickets exhausted, organisers said on...
Jun 14, 2024
Explainer-What is Weverse, 'super app' joined by Ariana Grande?
By Hyunsu Yim SEOUL (Reuters) - Pop star Ariana Grande is joining Weverse, a superfan platform owned by HYBE, an entertainment firm that manages K-Pop phenomenon BTS. Here is what we know about Weverse and why more pop stars around the world are jo...
Jun 14, 2024
Tennis-'Life's great' Federer says as he launches retirement documentary
By Hanna Rantala LONDON (Reuters) - Tennis great Roger Federer says he is enjoying dedicating his time to his family and not rushing into any big projects following his retirement nearly two years ago. Premiering a new documentary film in London on...
Jun 13, 2024
Texas man charged with threatening FBI agent over Hunter Biden case
(Reuters) - A Texas was charged on Thursday with threatening to jail or "slaughter" an FBI agent over the criminal case against President Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, federal prosecutors said. Timothy Muller, 43, was charged in a criminal complai...
Jun 13, 2024