By Moira Warburton WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Joe Manchin, a maverick Democrat who has often bucked party leadership, told a radio station in his home state of West Virginia on Thursday that he is “thinking seriously” about leaving the party. “I’m not a Washington Democrat,” Manchin said in the interview on Talkline with Hoppy…
By Alexandra Valencia and Tito Correa QUITO (Reuters) – The murder of Ecuadorean presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio has made some voters more wary of going to the polls on Aug. 20, making an unsettled election even harder to forecast. Villavicencio, a vocal critic of corruption and organized crime, was killed on Wednesday during an evening…
By Laura Sanicola (Reuters) -Oil prices settled lower on Thursday, with Brent crude holding close to January highs, as speculation about another U.S. interest rate hike faded following inflation data and OPEC remained positive on the oil demand outlook. Both benchmarks have been on a sustained rally since June, with West Texas Intermediate crude (WTI)…
By Nandita Bose SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) -President Joe Biden on Thursday expanded federal aid to Hawaii and promised help to its suffering citizens as deadly wildfires engulfed the island of Maui, and he expressed condolences for the devastation in a call with the state’s governor. Biden approved a disaster declaration for Hawaii aimed at…
(Reuters) – Ecuador was reeling on Thursday from the slaying of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio the night before, less than two weeks before elections were to take place. The killing of Villavicencio, a vocal critic of corruption and drug crime that have beset Ecuador, underlines a deteriorating security situation in much of South America. A…
By Nandita Bose SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) – President Joe Biden visited a U.S. veterans’ medical center in Utah on Thursday to mark the one-year anniversary of the signing of legislation that provides aid to veterans sickened by gases from military toxic burn pits. Biden is at the end of a three-state swing through the…
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – Digital Currency Group on Thursday urged a U.S. judge to dismiss a lawsuit claiming it defrauded customers of Gemini Trust, which was founded by billionaire twins Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, into lending money to its now-bankrupt Genesis Global Capital unit. In a filing in federal court in Manhattan,…
(Reuters) -Amazon.com is shelving several private clothing brands, a source familiar with the matter said on Thursday, as the e-commerce giant tries to cut costs and address antitrust scrutiny. The move was first reported by the Wall Street Journal, which said the company has decided to eliminate 27 of its 30 in house-label clothing brands,…
By Lewis Krauskopf NEW YORK (Reuters) – As inflation worries ease, U.S. stocks may need a fresh source of fuel to propel further gains this year, investors said. Data released on Thursday showed annual inflation, which had been running at 40-year highs a year ago, rose at a more moderate pace than expected in July,…
By Isla Binnie and Andres Gonzalez NEW YORK (Reuters) – Two of Canada’s biggest pension funds are exploring options including a sale of Cubico Sustainable Investments that could value the renewable energy firm at about $6 billion or more, including debt, according to people familiar with the matter. Montreal-based Public Sector Pension (PSP) Investment…
