By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States Postal Service (USPS) is hiking the price of first-class mail stamps to 66 cents from 63 cents effective Sunday. This is the latest in a series of price increases to help offset inflationary pressures and declining first-class mail volumes. USPS in January boosted stamp prices to…
By Guy Faulconbridge OSIPOVICHI, Belarus (Reuters) – A Belarusian town with a turbulent past may hold some haunting new secrets: an empty camp that mutinous Russian mercenaries have yet to use and perhaps even a storage facility for tactical nuclear weapons Russia says it has deployed in Belarus. In a former military camp surrounded by…
LONDON (Reuters) – Weight-loss drug Wegovy helped Rebecca Vogt achieve a major goal – shedding the weight she had not managed to drop since giving birth. But, after a particularly brutal day in the bathroom suffering from vomiting and diarrhoea, she called it quits. “The nausea is just so awful with this medication,” said Vogt,…
By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) -Employers cannot be held liable when workers contract COVID-19 on the job and spread it to their household members, California’s top court has ruled, siding with business groups that warned of a potential flood of litigation. The seven-member California Supreme Court on Thursday ruled unanimously that allowing so-called “take-home COVID” claims…
(Reuters) – Eisai Co Ltd and Biogen Inc’s Leqembi emerged as the first Alzheimer’s treatment to win the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s standard approval on Thursday, a milestone in drug development for a disease that has seen multiple failures in the past. The following is a list of companies that are currently developing treatments…
NABLUS, West Bank (Reuters) -Israeli security forces on Friday killed two Palestinians who carried out a shooting attack against police this week, Israel’s military said. Israeli forces raided the occupied West Bank town of Nablus, the military said, and “both terrorists were killed following an exchange of fire.” The official Palestinian news agency WAFA said…
By David Brunnstrom and Simon Lewis WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Washington hopes to rally Southeast Asian nations to take tougher action against Myanmar’s military junta and to push back on China’s actions in the South China Sea as top U.S. diplomat Antony Blinken heads to the region for meetings next week, a State Department official said…
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – A former U.S. Army financial counselor from New Jersey was criminally charged on Friday with defrauding grieving military families out of life insurance payments, causing millions of dollars of losses while reaping big commissions for himself. The U.S. Department of Justice charged Caz Craffy, 41, of Colts Neck, New Jersey,…
(Reuters) -Baltimore police arrested a 17-year-old male on weapons charges on Friday in connection with a mass shooting at a neighborhood block party in the Maryland city, but they did not charge the suspect with murder and said their investigation was ongoing. The teenage suspect, whom the Baltimore Police Department did not name, is being…
By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. added fewer jobs than anticipated in June but still-strong wage growth and a slight drop in the unemployment rate will likely keep the Federal Reserve on track to raise interest rates at the upcoming July meeting. The 209,000 payroll jobs added in June continued a steady climb down…
