By Diane Bartz WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The California attorney general’s office is probing whether Kroger’s $24.6 billion plan to buy rival grocer Albertsons will make it harder for people in poorer parts of cities or rural areas to buy medicines, according to two people familiar with the review. Food deserts, which are better known, are…
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -A U.S. judge on Friday ruled that former President Donald Trump had filed a “frivolous” appeal of his decision not to dismiss the first of writer E. Jean Carroll’s two defamation lawsuits stemming from her claim that he raped her. U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan also denied…
By Shashwat Chauhan and Ankika Biswas (Reuters) -European shares sank to their lowest level in six weeks on Friday, dragged down by financials and healthcare as concern over interest rates staying higher for longer globally and China’s dwindling growth prospects hit investor sentiment. The pan-European STOXX 600 closed 0.6% lower, falling for the fourth straight…
By Richa Naidu and Martin Coulter LONDON (Reuters) – Some of the world’s biggest advertisers, from food giant Nestle to consumer goods multinational Unilever, are experimenting with using generative AI software like ChatGPT and DALL-E to cut costs and increase productivity, executives say. But many companies remain wary of security and copyright risks as well…
By Bianca Flowers and Shivansh Tiwary (Reuters) -Deere & Co breezed past Wall Street estimates for third-quarter profit on Friday and raised its full-year guidance, but investor concerns over slower sales going forward sent shares down as much as 5%. The Moline, Illinois-based company posted a 60% rise in quarterly profit, yet investors were seemingly…
MOSCOW (Reuters) -A Ukrainian drone smashed into a building in central Moscow on Friday after Russian air defences shot it down, disrupting air traffic at all the civilian airports of the Russian capital, Russian officials said. A Reuters witness who was in the area described hearing “a powerful explosion”. Reuters images showed workers and emergency…
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON – Former U.S. Senator James Buckley, a premier conservative voice in Washington in the 1970s who successfully challenged limits on spending by political candidates while championing student privacy rights, died on Friday in Washington at age 100, the Washington Post reported. His son Peter Buckley confirmed the death but did not…
By Mubasher Bukhari and Asif Shahzad LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) -Pakistani police have arrested two Christian brothers accused of blasphemy, a spokesperson and a source said on Friday, two days after a Muslim mob burnt churches and houses, blaming the two men for desecrating the Koran. Pages of the Koran were found in a street with…
By Jorgelina do Rosario LONDON (Reuters) -Argentina’s surprise presidential front-runner, radical libertarian Javier Milei, pitched models of dollarizing the South American country’s economy in a meeting with major lender the International Monetary Fund on Friday, two sources said. The meeting, confirmed by both sides, comes as the lender looks to better understand the dark horse…
By Daniel Trotta and Brendan O’Brien (Reuters) -Donna Gomes, 71, lived her entire life in Lahaina, where friends knew her as “the bull” for her strong-willed nature. Joseph Schilling, 66, enjoyed hunting for bullet shells and was known by his loved ones for making delicious sugar toast. Both died last week in the wildfires that…
