By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The spending-cut proposals unveiled by U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Monday could fall hardest on people in Republican-leaning states, a Reuters analysis of federal spending data found. McCarthy’s plan, which he presented as a condition for raising the United States’s $31.4 trillion debt ceiling, calls for…
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said on Monday the Justice Department intends to appoint a prosecutor and a legal adviser to assist Ukraine with its efforts to investigate and prosecute suspected war crimes by Russian forces. The prosecutor will be based in The Hague at Eurojust, the European Union Agency…
By Pavel Polityuk, Pawel Florkiewicz and Andriy Perun KYIV/RAVA-RUSKA, Ukraine (Reuters) – Slovakia on Monday joined Poland and Hungary in banning grain imports from Ukraine as even Kyiv’s staunchest allies come under domestic pressure to shield their agriculture markets. The heat is mounting on Brussels to work out a European Union wide solution after Warsaw…
By Jonathan Allen (Reuters) -The Minnesota Court of Appeals on Monday upheld the conviction of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd during a 2020 arrest, rejecting Chauvin’s request for a new trial. The panel of three judges rejected Chauvin’s argument that the judge in his 2021 state trial made…
By Akash Sriram (Reuters) -Tesla Inc’s first-quarter margins are anticipated to have hit a more than three-year low as the electric-vehicle maker slashed prices to lure more buyers in the face of rising competition and a weak economy. The world’s most valuable automaker, which commands over half of the U.S. EV market, cut sticker prices…
By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Group of Seven (G7) coalition will keep a $60 per barrel price cap on seaborne Russian oil, a coalition official said, despite rising global crude prices and calls by some countries for a lower price cap to restrict Moscow’s revenues. The G7 and Australia made the decision to maintain…
By Horacio Soria and Juan Carlos Bustamante BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentine, fighting one of its worst outbreaks of dengue in recent years, is sterilizing mosquitoes using radiation that alters their DNA before releasing them into the wild. The South American country has this year recorded over 41,000 cases of the disease transmitted by mosquitoes,…
By Lisa Baertlein LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – California’s bustling seaports, dominated by massive container vessels and soaring cranes, may seem an unlikely setting for investors seeking to capitalize on the “green” revolution. But thanks to the state’s plan to phase out by 2035 heavy-duty diesel trucks that haul containers to ships and warehouses, the ports have…
By Kylie MacLellan and Alistair Smout LONDON (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is being investigated by parliament’s standards watchdog over whether he properly declared his wife’s shareholding in a childcare company which stands to benefit from new government policy. Parliament’s Commissioner for Standards began the investigation over a “declaration of interest” on April 13,…
DUBLIN (Reuters) – Ryanair does not expect to see major disruption this summer on account of Boeing’s decision to halt deliveries of 737 MAX jets over quality issues, a senior executive told Irish broadcaster RTE on Monday. The Irish airline in a statement on Friday said it was assessing with Boeing how the issue, related…
