By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) – The largest LGBTQ advocacy organization in the United States on Tuesday declared its first national state of emergency, citing the proliferation of legislation in statehouses across the country aimed at regulating the lives of queer people. The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) said over 70 bills it considers anti-LGBTQ were passed…
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) – The exiled Chinese businessman Guo Wengui will face trial starting April 8, 2024 on U.S. charges of leading a more than $1 billion fraud. U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres set the date at a Tuesday hearing in Manhattan federal court. Guo is a prominent critic of China’s Communist…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Thailand is in a “delicate phase” after its election last month and the U.S. goal is to support an “effective, stable, democratic government” there, the top U.S. official for the Indo-Pacific region said on Tuesday. “We’ve watched carefully the election,” White House Indo-Pacific Coordinator Kurt Campbell told the Hudson Institute think tank….
(Reuters) -Electric vehicle startup Fisker has signed a deal to sell emission credits to a major automaker, looking to enter a market it is betting on to navigate a stormy economic environment and a price war sparked by Tesla. The announcement on Tuesday comes barely a month after Fisker lowered its 2023 production target and…
By Divya Rajagopal TORONTO (Reuters) -Teck Resources said on Tuesday it has received several proposals for its steelmaking coal business, without revealing if one included a revised offer from Swiss trading and mining firm Glencore which launched its takeover bid for the Canadian miner over two months ago. Vancouver-based Teck said in a statement its…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday requested a federal court put in place a temporary restraining order to freeze the U.S. assets of cryptocurrency exchange Binance. The motion, in a filing to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, comes a day after U.S. regulators sued Binance and…
By Matthias Williams, Mark Trevelyan and Gloria Dickie LONDON (Reuters) – The breach of a huge dam on the front-line Dnipro river has muddied the picture for a much-awaited Ukrainian counteroffensive against Russian invaders and threatens an environmental disaster for civilians living in the war zone. Kyiv and Moscow have blamed each other for the…
By Jarrett Renshaw and Stephanie Kelly NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Biden administration will abandon a proposal to include the electric vehicle industry in the U.S. biofuel blending program and withdraw potentially billions of dollars worth of tradable credits that had been attributed to the scheme, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. Reuters…
(Reuters) – Bitcoin rose 5.56% to $27,171 at 19:57 GMT on Tuesday, adding $1,432 to its previous close. Bitcoin, the world’s biggest and best-known cryptocurrency, is up 64.7% from the year’s low of $16,496 on January 1. Ether, the coin linked to the Ethereum blockchain network, rose 4.72% to $1,896.1 on Tuesday, adding $85.4 to…
By Chibuike Oguh NEW YORK (Reuters) – Shares of GitLab Inc jumped more than 35% on Tuesday after the software development platform announced plans to launch a revenue-boosting artificial intelligence (AI)-powered product. GitLab, widely used by software developers for coding work, will add a “ModelOps” feature to its main “DevSecOps” platform with new capabilities including…