By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) -A U.S. judge has rejected Apple’s bid to throw out a class-action lawsuit that accused Chief Executive Tim Cook of defrauding shareholders by concealing falling demand for iPhones in China. U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers’ decision late Monday night clears the way for shareholders led by a British pension fund…
By Nathan Layne, Alexandra Ulmer and Gram Slattery (Reuters) – Former President Donald Trump is leveraging his connections to loyalists in key primary states to lobby for voting rules and dates that could cement his front-runner status in the race for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, his team and sources in several states told Reuters….
By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) – South Carolina’s highest court on Tuesday appeared open to upholding a new state law banning abortion after about six weeks of pregnancy, months after it blocked a similar ban. Abortion providers, led by Planned Parenthood, last month won a court order temporarily blocking the law from taking effect until their…
By Daria Sito-Sucic SARAJEVO (Reuters) – Lawmakers in Bosnia’s autonomous Serb Republic voted on Tuesday to suspend rulings by Bosnia’s constitutional court, a move described by experts as a “legal secession” that is set to deepen political divisions in the volatile Balkan country. The region’s separatist pro-Russian President Milorad Dodik, who has long criticised the…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman held a call with China’s ambassador to the United States on Tuesday to follow up on issues discussed during U.S. top diplomat Antony Blinken’s visit to Beijing last week, the State Department said. In the call with Chinese Ambassador Xie Feng, Sherman reiterated the importance…
By Tommy Wilkes LONDON (Reuters) – U.S. asset managers factor greenhouse gas emissions and other climate risks into their debt investment decisions as much as peers in Europe, according to a survey released on Tuesday, despite the Republican campaign against climate-focused investing in the United States. Nearly a third of North American fixed income managers…
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – The chief executives of Brazil’s largest private lenders, Itau and Bradesco, defended on Tuesday the government’s planned tax reform, emphasizing that the country is facing a “unique opportunity” for the economy. Brazil unveiled last week the details of its proposed tax reform to overhaul its notoriously complex consumption taxes, seen as…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States is encouraged by recent efforts by Armenia and Azerbaijan to engage productively on a peace process, State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said on Tuesday as Washington hosts the two countries’ foreign ministers for talks. Earlier on Tuesday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan…
By James Oliphant (Reuters) – Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on Monday provided his most detailed plan yet for securing the U.S. southern border with Mexico as he tries to make up ground against Donald Trump in the race for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. At an event in Eagle Pass, Texas, on the Rio Grande…
By Gram Slattery and Michael Martina WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley staked out one of the most hawkish positions on China in the 2024 Republican presidential field on Tuesday, calling for Washington to drastically limit ties with its geopolitical foe to address a dramatic rise in overdose deaths attributable to fentanyl in the…
