SAO PAULO (Reuters) – The head of Brazil’s lower house authorized on Wednesday the creation of a committee to investigate Americanas, the retailer at the center of a nearly $4 billion accounting scandal. Arthur Lira gave the green light to create the so-called CPI committee, which will include 27 federal lawmakers appointed by party leaders,…
(Reuters) – Former U.S. President Donald Trump has lost an appeal to block former Vice President Mike Pence from testifying in the special counsel probe into efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, CNN reported on Wednesday. Earlier this month, Trump lawyers filed the appeal after a ruling related to the Justice…
By Dan Whitcomb (Reuters) – The U.S. Air Force has suspended two commanders from the National Guard unit where accused classified intelligence leaker Jack Teixeira served, a USAF spokesman said on Wednesday. Teixeira, 21, was arrested by the FBI on April 13 at his home in Massachusetts and charged with violating the Espionage Act. Prosecutors…
By Khalid Abdelaziz and Nadine Awadalla KHARTOUM (Reuters) -Sudan’s army and a paramilitary force battled on Khartoum’s outskirts on Wednesday, undermining a truce in their 11-day conflict, but the army expressed willingness to extend the ceasefire. The army late on Wednesday said its leader, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, gave initial approval to a plan to…
By Dan Whitcomb (Reuters) – Former Fox News star Tucker Carlson surfaced publicly on Wednesday for the first time since abruptly leaving the network this week, releasing a videotaped statement in which he criticized the state of public discourse on U.S. television. Carlson in the videotaped statement did not directly address his departure from Fox,…
(Reuters) – Russian forces pounded the city of Bakhmut, the months-old focal point of their attempts to capture the eastern Ukrainian industrial region of Donbas, and the head of Russia’s Wagner mercenary force said Ukrainian troops were pouring in ahead of an “inevitable” counter-offensive. The general staff of Ukraine’s armed forces, in a report on…
By Jonathan Stempel and Jack Queen NEW YORK (Reuters) – A writer explained in graphic detail on Wednesday how Donald Trump allegedly raped her nearly 30 years ago, at a civil trial to determine whether the former U.S. president assaulted her and then lied about it. “I’m here because Donald Trump raped me, and when…
By Duncan Miriri MALINDI, Kenya (Reuters) – The leader of a Kenyan cult told his followers the world would end on April 15 and instructed them to starve themselves to be the first to go to heaven, a relative of cult members and hospital staff told Reuters on Wednesday. Eighty-nine followers of the Good News…
By Sinéad Carew, Ankika Biswas and Sruthi Shankar (Reuters) – The tech-heavy Nasdaq closed slightly higher on Wednesday after strong Microsoft Corp results boosted technology shares, but the S&P 500 and the Dow fell on lingering concerns about a weakening U.S. economy and the banking sector. Economically sensitive transport stocks had their weakest day in…
By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) -President Joe Biden’s administration on Wednesday urged a U.S. appeals court to overrule a conservative Texas-based judge’s order that would essentially ban the abortion pill mifepristone by suspending the drug’s federal regulatory approval in a legal challenge by abortion opponents. The U.S. Justice Department, in a filing to the New Orleans-based…
