By Angus Berwick and Tom Wilson LONDON (Reuters) – On Monday, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission took aim at the most powerful man in crypto. The SEC accused Binance founder Changpeng Zhao of operating a “web of deception,” charging him and his exchange with 13 offences. These ranged from allegedly manipulating Binance’s trading volumes…
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said a drone sighting had briefly disrupted some flights at Pittsburgh International Airport on Monday. The FAA said in a statement it had earlier temporarily suspended some arrivals and departures as local enforcement attempts to locate the drone operator. The FAA had said that…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said on Monday she is not vying for NATO’s top job, after an Oval Office sit-down with U.S. President Joe Biden and a separate meeting with CIA Director William Burns. “I’ve have said before that I am not a candidate for any other job than the one…
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. passenger railroad Amtrak said Monday it has applied for $8 billion in government grants to modernize bridges, tunnels and other aging infrastructure along the busy Washington to Boston corridor, expanding service and building a new station in Arlington, Virginia. Congress approved $66 billion for rail as part of the…
By Max Hunder KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine has enough weapons to begin its counter-offensive against Russia, and the operation will give the country the victory it needs to join NATO, Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba told Reuters on Monday. Membership of the military alliance would “probably” only be possible for Ukraine after the end of active…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Texas won the latest round in its antitrust lawsuit against Alphabet’s Google on Monday as a U.S. judicial panel ordered the case returned to federal court in Texas. At Google’s request the lawsuit had been moved in August 2021 to a federal court in New York, where other advertising technology cases were being…
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Republican head of a U.S. House of Representatives panel said he will seek to hold FBI Director Christopher Wray in contempt of Congress over what he said was a failure to hand over information on President Joe Biden’s family dealings. “We will now initiate contempt of Congress…
ROME (Reuters) – The right-wing government of Italy’s Lazio region around Rome said on Monday it was withdrawing its backing from the capital’s annual LGBT parade, drawing an angry response from rights activists and opposition politicians. LGBT rights and gender equality in Italy have been a particularly sensitive issue since right-wing Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni…
By Tim Reid (Reuters) – A growing number of contenders for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination could clear the way for a Donald Trump victory while throwing up roadblocks for his main rival Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, party members and strategists said. Republicans who fear Trump is too polarizing a figure to beat Democratic President…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The White House said on Monday that actions by China in the Taiwan Strait and South China Sea reflect a “growing aggressiveness” by Beijing’s military that raises the risk of an error where someone gets hurt. The U.S. Navy on Sunday released a video of what it called an “unsafe interaction” in the…
