By Helen Coster NEW YORK (Reuters) – The head of engineering for the company that operates former U.S. President Donald Trump’s Truth Social app told Reuters on Monday he had resigned, in a blow for the venture. Alex Gleason’s departure comes amid a period of prolonged uncertainty for Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), which…
By Chuck Mikolajczak NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. stocks ended higher to kick off the trading week on Monday, buoyed by gains in financial and technology shares as investors awaited the next round of quarterly results this week as earnings season gathers speed. Companies scheduled to report earnings this week include Tesla and Netflix, while…
By Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Restrictive abortion laws in states like Alabama are harming the U.S. military’s ability to retain service members and impacting morale, the White House said on Monday as the administration sought to increase pressure on the Senate over the issue. U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville, a Republican from Alabama, is blocking more…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden’s chief spokesperson sharply criticized Democratic presidential opponent Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for alleging in a recently released video that COVID-19 was targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people and that Jewish and Chinese people are most immune. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre joined a chorus of Democratic…
By Maria Alejandra Cardona MIAMI/KEY WEST, Florida (Reuters) – Rising temperatures in Florida’s waters due to climate change have sparked an extreme stressor for coral reefs causing bleaching, which has scientists concerned. “In the last year, it’s been really depressing because we’ve seen a lot of changes, and we’ve been monitoring sites from Miami for…
By Philip Pullella and Costas Pitas VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Italian Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, assigned by Pope Francis to help bring peace to Ukraine, will discuss repatriating children who Kyiv and others say have been deported by Russia with U.S. President Joe Biden in Washington as part of a three-day visit. Zuppi will meet Biden…
By Nathan Layne (Reuters) – Former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson, a Republican running for U.S. president, said on Monday that Donald Trump has “done great harm” to trust in federal law enforcement through “self-serving” attempts to undermine investigations of his conduct. Hutchinson, one of the few Republicans seeking the 2024 nomination who has criticized the…
By Deena Beasley (Reuters) -An experimental drug from Eli Lilly works best if Alzheimer’s patients are treated as early as possible, ideally before they develop symptoms of the brain-wasting disease, researchers said on Monday, in the latest promising development for treating the most common form of dementia. The drug, donanemab, has been shown to slow…
By Jorge Garcia and Brad Brooks DEATH VALLEY, California (Reuters) – An extreme heatwave peaked in the western United States on Sunday, with temperatures reaching 128 Fahrenheit (53 Celsius) in the California desert, while flash flooding continued to menace the Northeast, killing at least five people. Nearly a quarter of the U.S. population fell under…
By Rachel Nostrant (Reuters) – Three years after the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis and a month after federal investigators found widespread racial discrimination by city law enforcement officers, a Minnesota judge has approved a reform agreement between the state human rights department and the city’s police. The agreement approved July 13 by…
