By Padraic Halpin and Steve Holland DUBLIN (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden told the Irish parliament he was “home” in an emotional address on the second day of a nostalgic three-day tour celebrating his Irish heritage as he geared up for a planned 2024 re-election campaign. “I’m home… I only wish I could stay longer,”…
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -A Washington, D.C., appeals court on Thursday declined to shield Donald Trump from the first of two civil defamation lawsuits by E. Jean Carroll, a writer who said the former U.S. president raped her nearly three decades ago. The district’s highest local court, the Court of Appeals, said it…
By Andrea Shalal and David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Senior officials from the United States, Europe and Britain met on Thursday with financial institutions to brief them on efforts by Russia to evade Western sanctions imposed over its invasion of Ukraine, a senior U.S. Treasury official told reporters. The firms – from the United States,…
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Thursday said Donald Trump’s defamation trial over whether he raped a writer in the mid-1990s will begin as scheduled on April 25, rejecting the former president’s bid for a delay but letting him learn more about how his accuser is paying her legal bills….
By Stephen Culp NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. stocks ended sharply higher on Thursday as economic data showed cooling inflation and a loosening labor market, fueling optimism that the Federal Reserve could be nearing the end of its aggressive interest rate hike cycle. All three major U.S. stock indexes surged more than 1%, with interest…
By Julia Harte and Sharon Bernstein (Reuters) -U.S. telehealth and in-person abortion providers scrambled on Thursday to keep medication abortion services available after a federal appeals court ruled that the abortion pill mifepristone could be distributed amid ongoing litigation but with significant restrictions. The New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday upheld…
By Karen Freifeld NEW YORK (Reuters) – Former U.S. President Donald Trump returned to New York to answer questions under oath on Thursday in a $250 million business fraud lawsuit brought against him by the state attorney general. But the questioning took place behind closed doors, and Trump’s appearance for the civil case did…
By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday refused to halt a legal settlement that would erase more than $6 billion in debt owed by former students of colleges – many of them for-profit institutions – who have said they were misled by schools about academics and job prospects. The justices turned…
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The city of Minneapolis on Thursday settled two lawsuits brought by Black residents involving Derek Chauvin, the white former police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd, that alleged he had dealt with them similarly in the past. Minneapolis City Council members voted on Thursday to settle the federal civil…
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The White House on Thursday asked federal agencies to revise workforce plans as it aims to “substantially increase” in-person work by government employees at headquarters offices and improve services, according to a memo seen by Reuters. The memo to executive branch agencies from White House Office of Management and Budget…
