By Max Hunder KRAMATORSK, Ukraine (Reuters) -Two 14-year-old twin sisters were among at least 11 people killed in a Russian missile strike on a crowded restaurant in Ukraine’s eastern city of Kramatorsk, officials said on Wednesday. Emergency services said the bodies of 11 people had been recovered from the rubble by early Wednesday evening, nearly…
By Andrew Goudsward (Reuters) – Bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX sued one of its former top lawyers, accusing him of aiding fraud by company founder Sam Bankman-Fried and silencing whistleblowers who reported wrongdoing at the company. The complaint, filed on Tuesday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware, describes Daniel Friedberg, a former chief compliance officer at…
(Reuters) – White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan has been in touch with Moscow to discuss the respective Russian and U.S. embassies, and the two sides are in talks on the subject, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday. The two countries’ embassies have been severely and reciprocally scaled down in recent years as…
By Andrew Chung and John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) – In December, during a heated U.S. Supreme Court oral argument involving a collision between free speech protections for business owners and LGBT rights, liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who had joined the bench only about two months before, raised the most memorable question of the day….
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Former Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum leads the contest to be a candidate for Mexico’s ruling party in the 2024 presidential election, a survey published on Wednesday showed, while another poll put her in a virtual dead heat but advancing. A survey by polling firm Buendia & Marquez for newspaper El Universal…
By Michael Martina and Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) -China criticized U.S. presidential contender Nikki Haley over her threats to drastically limit Sino-U.S. trade relations, saying those who blamed Beijing for problems would end up on the “ash heap of history.” Haley, a U.N. ambassador during the Trump administration, staked out one of the most hawkish…
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States and China agreed to consider expanding commercial flights between the two countries to improve people-to-people contact, the top U.S. diplomat for East Asia, Daniel Kritenbrink, said on Wednesday. He told a Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank event in Washington that the countries agreed…
By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) -New York’s attorney general on Wednesday accused nursing home operator Centers Health Care and its owners of stealing $83 million in government funds while understaffing its facilities, resulting in widespread neglect, illness and death among residents. In a lawsuit filed in state court in Manhattan, Attorney General Letitia James sought to…
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday announced federal and local criminal charges targeting 78 defendants across 16 states as part of a law enforcement action involving $2.5 billion in alleged healthcare fraud schemes targeting elderly and disabled people, HIV patients and even pregnant women. The cases range from allegations…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – In a new verbal slip-up, U.S. President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin was “losing the war in Iraq” when he meant to say Ukraine. Speaking to reporters briefly before departing the White House on a trip to Chicago, Biden was asked if Putin had been weakened by…
