(Reuters) – Restaurateur Anton Pinskiy paid around 500 million roubles ($6 million) for assets formerly licensed by Starbucks in Russia, he told the TASS news agency, shedding new light on one of the many corporate exits from Russia over its invasion of Ukraine. Seattle-based Starbucks declined to comment. It had 130 stores in Russia, owned…
By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. House of Representatives returned to the job of legislating on Tuesday, after a week-long standoff between Speaker Kevin McCarthy and a small group of hardline Republican conservatives ended in a temporary truce. The Republican-controlled chamber first voted 219-210 on a gun rights bill favored by McCarthy’s hardline critics,…
By Steven Grattan ITAJAI, Brazil (Reuters) – Last November, just hours before a social gathering for Haitian immigrants in the town of Itajai in the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina, event organizer Andrea Muller received a chilling message. “Cancel the Haiti exhibition or we will commit a massacre,” read the subject line of the…
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -A federal judge on Tuesday said E. Jean Carroll, the New York writer who last month won a $5 million jury verdict against Donald Trump for sexual abuse and defamation, can pursue a related $10 million defamation case against the former U.S. president. U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in…
(Reuters) – New York City has struck a tentative $6.4 billion five-year contract deal with the teachers union that includes more than 15% in pay hikes over five years and expands remote learning programs that began during the coronavirus pandemic. The contract, covering some 120,000 teachers and other school workers, also calls for a $3,000…
By Zeba Siddiqui (Reuters) – A U.S. surveillance program aimed at countering foreign threats that intelligence officials have used to spy on Americans faced resistance from both Republicans and Democrats at a Senate hearing to discuss its renewal on Tuesday. President Joe Biden’s administration has backed renewal of the program, effected through the 2008 statute…
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -A Bahamas court on Tuesday temporarily barred the country’s government from agreeing to let U.S. prosecutors pursue part of their criminal case against Sam Bankman-Fried, the indicted founder of now-bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX. Last month, U.S. federal prosecutors in Manhattan said they would drop five charges of foreign bribery,…
(Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called for tougher sanctions to halt the flow of components used in Russian missiles, saying it was cheaper to stop their transfer than to improve anti-aircraft systems against their deployment. It was the second time in a little more than a week that Zelenskiy had called for tightened rules…
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The top Republican on a U.S. Senate panel whose party rejected President Joe Biden’s nominee to head the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), on Tuesday urged Biden to pick a new nominee, saying the delay puts passengers at risk. The FAA has been without a permanent administrator since April 2022. Biden’s…
By Vitalii Hnidyi NESKUCHNE, Ukraine (Reuters) -Ukraine’s blue and yellow flag flew over a ruined grocery store and Russian soldiers lay dead in the street of the village of Neskuchne, reached by Reuters journalists on Tuesday in the first independent confirmation of Ukraine’s biggest advances for seven months against Russia’s invasion. Russia has not acknowledged…
