By Lisa Richwine and Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -HBO drama “Succession,” the story of a cutthroat fight for control of a family’s media empire, led the nominees for television’s Emmy awards on Wednesday with 27 nods for the show’s final season. Nominations for the highest honors in television were announced as Hollywood was in…
By Phil Stewart and David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON (Reuters) -China’s ambassador to the United States held a rare meeting at the Pentagon on Wednesday with the top U.S. defense official for Asia, the Pentagon said, in talks that followed U.S. criticism of Chinese reluctance to engage in military communications. A brief Pentagon statement said Chinese Ambassador…
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democratic and Republican senators renewed an effort to block any U.S. president from leaving NATO on Wednesday, as leaders of the alliance attended an eventful summit in Vilnius, Lithuania. The joint resolution, seen by Reuters, is a fresh effort by Congress to prevent the president from withdrawing from the…
By Raphael Satter WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Biden administration’s nominee to lead the National Security Agency (NSA) says he will champion the mass surveillance power that has been used to collect data from foreigners and Americans alike and which has come under renewed scrutiny from lawmakers. Efforts to renew the spy power, known as Section…
By Clark Mindock (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday temporarily blocked a Biden administration plan to improve cybersecurity for public water systems, after Republican-led states complained it would thrust burdensome costs on small and rural water suppliers. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis issued a stay temporarily suspending the…
By Helen Coster, Tom Hals and Jack Queen NEW YORK (Reuters) – An Arizona man filed a defamation lawsuit against Fox News on Wednesday, alleging the network spread a conspiracy theory that he played a key role in the violent storming of the U.S. Capitol by supporters of former U.S. President Donald Trump. Ray Epps,…
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Wednesday discussed the Sudanese crisis, bilateral relations and Ethiopia’s giant dam on the Blue Nile, the Egyptian presidency said. Sisi welcomed Ahmed at the presidential palace in Cairo, the presidency added. Egypt hosts a summit of Sudan’s neighbours on Thursday…
By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Hollywood’s major film and television studios and the union representing 160,000 actors were engaged in last-ditch talks on Wednesday ahead of a midnight deadline to try to avoid a second labor strike in the entertainment business. SAG-AFTRA, Hollywood’s largest union, is demanding higher compensation in the streaming TV era…
By Steve Holland and Trevor Hunnicutt VILNIUS (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden concluded a NATO summit on Wednesday denouncing Russian President Vladimir Putin as “craven” and promising Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy full support even without membership in the military alliance. Capping the two-day meeting of NATO leaders in Lithuania, on Russia’s doorstep, Biden praised the…
CARACAS (Reuters) – Candidates vying to carry the banner of Venezuela’s opposition in presidential elections next year agreed at a debate on Wednesday that they must present a united front against the ruling party and work to boost the economy by attracting private investment. The debate, the first between opposition hopefuls since 2011, was held…
