(Reuters) – Russia’s defence ministry on Thursday denied reports that Ukrainian forces had broken through in various places along the front lines and said the military situation was under control. Moscow reacted after Russian military bloggers, writing on Telegram, reported what they said were Ukrainian advances north and south of the city of Bakhmut, with…
By Dietrich Knauth NEW YORK (Reuters) – SVB Financial, the bankrupt former parent of failed Silicon Valley Bank, said on Thursday the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation must release $10 million in tax refund checks owed to the company, escalating a dispute over the agency’s efforts to seize assets in the wake of the bank’s…
(Reuters) -Russia’s defence ministry on Thursday denied reports that Ukrainian forces had broken through in various places along the front lines and said the military situation was under control. Moscow reacted after Russian military bloggers, writing on the Telegram messaging app, reported what they said were Ukrainian advances north and south of the eastern Ukrainian…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – CIA Director William Burns on Thursday announced the appointment of the former head of the U.S. Navy’s sexual assault prevention program as part of a new effort to improve how the premier U.S. spy agency deals with sexual assault and harassment allegations. The moves follow a U.S. Senate intelligence committee letter in…
By Steve Holland, Michael Martina and David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden’s national security adviser met China’s top diplomat this week and both sides recognized the need to move beyond an alleged spy balloon incident that caused a pause in relations between the superpowers, a senior U.S. official said on Thursday. The White House…
(Reuters) – U.S. adolescents made fewer weekly emergency department (ED) visits for mental health conditions in Fall 2022 compared to a year earlier, researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported on Thursday. By late 2022, pandemic restrictions had been loosened or lifted and adolescents had generally returned to schools, with better…
By Mike Scarcella (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp on Friday will defend its $69 billion planned acquisition of “Call of Duty” maker Activision Blizzard Inc, in a private antitrust lawsuit in San Francisco federal court brought by video gamers who claim the deal will harm industry competition and should be stopped. At the hearing, U.S. District…
By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) – New York on Thursday sued the company that sold the locking device included with the gun used by a white supremacist to kill 10 Black people at a Buffalo grocery store last year, saying it allowed the shooter to turn the rifle into an illegal assault weapon. In a complaint…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Former U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday appealed a New York jury’s verdict in a civil case that he sexually abused and defamed writer E. Jean Carroll. The jury in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday awarded Carroll, 79, $5 million in damages. Carroll, sued Trump, 76, in 2022 with her allegation that he…
By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Dan Williams GAZA/JERUSALEM, Israel (Reuters) -Israel killed the head of Islamic Jihad’s rocket force and his deputy, pressing an operation that has cost 30 lives in Gaza including women and children, while Palestinian cross-border rocket salvoes inflicted a first fatality in Israel on Thursday. Amid mediation efforts by Egypt, neither side…
