WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden has nominated Virginia Solicitor General Andrew Ferguson and Utah Solicitor General Melissa Holyoak to fill Republican slots at the Federal Trade Commission, the White House said on Monday. If confirmed by the Senate, the two Republicans will not change the balance of power at the FTC, which enforces antitrust…
BERLIN (Reuters) – Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz called on Monday for the extension of a deal allowing the safe export of grain and fertilizers from three Ukrainian Black Sea ports, an official said. The two made the call during a phone conversation, Scholz’s spokesperson said. Zelenskiy, in his nightly video…
By Daniel Trotta and Brendan Pierson (Reuters) – In state after state, conservative lawmakers this year have banned medical procedures for transgender youth. Now, a growing number of federal judges are blocking those laws from taking effect. U.S. district court judges have halted such laws in six states – Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Kentucky and…
By Ali Sawafta JENIN, West Bank (Reuters) -Israeli forces hit the city of Jenin with drone strikes on Monday in one of the biggest West Bank operations in 20 years, killing at least eight Palestinians and involving hundreds of troops in sporadic gun battles that continued into the evening. Gunfire and explosions were heard throughout…
KYIV (Reuters) -A Russian drone attack killed at least two people and injured 19 in the northern Ukrainian city of Sumy on Monday, prompting President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to call for a major upgrade of anti-aircraft defences. An official building and two residential buildings were damaged in an attack carried out with four drones, the Sumy…
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Police in Washington are offering a reward of up to $20,000 for information that could lead to the arrest of those involved in three explosions within a 15-minute span at retail outlets in the U.S. capital on Sunday. No one was killed or injured in the early hour blasts in…
(Reuters) -American ambassador to Russia Lynne Tracy was granted access on Monday to jailed Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, the U.S. State Department said, in the second such visit since his pre-trial detention in March on espionage charges he denies. Tracy met with Gershkovich at Lefortovo Prison in Moscow in what was the first…
By Pavel Polityuk KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine said on Monday its troops had regained more ground along eastern and southern fronts in what President Volodymyr Zelenskiy described as progress in a “difficult” week for Kyiv’s counteroffensive against Russian forces. Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Maliar also noted a surge in fighting around the shattered eastern city of…
By Sinéad Carew NEW YORK (Reuters) – Wall Street stock indexes ended Monday’s shorter session up slightly along with U.S. Treasury yields, as investors weighed up a mixed bag of economic data ahead of second-quarter earnings and uncertainty over the direction of central bank policy. On Wall Street, Nasdaq led gains while the Dow was…
By Valerie Volcovici (Reuters) – The Biden administration’s climate agenda is facing an unexpected challenge in drought-prone Corpus Christi, Texas, where a proposed clean hydrogen hub would require the installation of energy-intensive, expensive and potentially environmentally damaging seawater desalination plants. The Gulf Coast port is in the running for up to $1 billion available under…
