By Graham Fahy and Steve Holland BALLINA, Ireland (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden gave a rousing campaign-style speech to an exuberant crowd in his ancestral home town in the west of Ireland on Friday to wrap up a nostalgic three-day state visit ahead of what is expected to be a gruelling 2024 re-election bid. Biden…
By Alexandra Ulmer INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana (Reuters) – Former Vice President Mike Pence was booed at a gathering of the country’s largest gun rights lobby on Friday even as he sought to present himself as a more ardent defender of gun rights than his former boss Donald Trump. Trump, meanwhile, used the same forum on Friday…
By Dan Whitcomb (Reuters) – The tech executive charged with stabbing Cash App founder Bob Lee to death in San Francisco confronted him earlier in the evening about his ties to the suspect’s younger sister, prosecutors said on Friday in court documents that outlined a possible motive. Nima Momeni, 38, was arrested on Thursday and…
By Elizabeth Pineau, Noemie Olive and Ingrid Melander PARIS (Reuters) -French President Emmanuel Macron’s flagship pension reform will enter into force swiftly, officials said on Friday after it received the Constitutional Council’s approval despite months of street protests and strikes. The legislation, which pushes up the age at which one can draw a pension to…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden will host a bilateral meeting with Colombian President Gustavo Petro, White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement on Friday. “I am grateful to President Biden for his invitation,” Petro said on Twitter. “It is a key moment to strengthen the relationship and mutual cooperation between both countries,…
By Aishwarya Nair (Reuters) – Boeing Co shares closed down 5.6% on Friday after the planemaker halted deliveries of some 737 MAX jets due to quality-related problems in certain components made by one of its main suppliers. Boeing is under tough regulatory scrutiny following the deadly crashes of its MAX planes in 2018 and 2019…
By Herbert Lash NEW YORK (Reuters) – Treasury yields rose and the dollar index bounced off a one-year low on Friday after a decline in U.S. retail sales suggested the economy is slowing but not fast enough to stop the Federal Reserve from raising interest rates again in May. Stocks on Wall Street fell and…
By Steve Stecklow, Waylon Cunningham and Hyunjoo Jin (Reuters) – Two U.S. senators have written to Elon Musk, Tesla Inc’s chief executive, questioning him about the sharing by employees of sensitive images recorded by cameras in customers’ vehicles. “This apparent willful disregard for the privacy of Tesla customers is unacceptable and raises serious questions about…
By Andrea Shalal and Katharine Jackson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Ukraine secured promises of $5 billion in additional funding to support its ongoing fight against Russia amid “fruitful meetings” in Washington this week, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal told reporters on Friday. Shmyhal met with representatives of the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the European…
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – Donald Trump will not learn the identities of jurors expected to decide at an upcoming civil trial whether the former president defamed the writer E. Jean Carroll, who also claims Trump raped her. U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan on Friday rejected Trump’s renewed effort to require…
