By Olena Harmash (Reuters) – Ukraine has been publicly cautious in counting gains in a counteroffensive it launched this month to reclaim territory occupied by Russian forces, and on Friday its president and a U.S. general acknowledged that progress is measured in blood. The top U.S. military officer, Army General Mark Milley, told an audience…
By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S Supreme Court handed President Joe Biden a painful defeat on Friday, blocking his plan to cancel $430 billion in student loan debt – a move that had been intended to benefit up to 43 million Americans and fulfill a campaign promise. The Democratic president denounced the 6-3 decision…
By Steve Holland and Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden on Friday announced new measures to provide student loan relief to Americans and condemned the U.S. Supreme Court for blocking a plan to cancel hundreds of billions of dollars in debt that was popular with his voters. Thwarted by the conservative-leaning court, Biden told…
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) – Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Saturday commenced his ruling party’s campaign for an election later this month – a poll that has been criticised as a sham after the main opposition party was prevented from running. The 70-year-old strongman, who has ruled the Southeast Asian nation of 16 million for…
By Will Dunham (Reuters) -Alan Arkin, a versatile and prolific American actor who thrived in both comic and dramatic roles and won an Oscar for playing a heroin-using grandfather in the 2006 film “Little Miss Sunshine,” has died at 89, his family said. “Our father was a uniquely talented force of nature, both as an…
(Reuters) – Swiss drugmaker Sandoz said on Saturday it had launched a biosimilar version of AbbVie Inc’s big selling arthritis treatment Humira, adding to U.S. competition for the drug that started in January. The Novartis-owned company said its drug, Hyrimoz, will be priced at a 5% discount off Humira’s current list price of $6,922 per…
By Brendan O’Brien CHICAGO (Reuters) – Half of the U.S. population was urged on Friday to take precautions when they are outdoors, either due to a relentless heat wave or poor air quality caused by Canadian wildfires ahead of the long Fourth of July weekend. Some 80 million people living in California, the Deep South…
(Reuters) – Walt Disney has been accused of systematically underpaying women in California in a lawsuit that alleges the company’s female employees in the state earned $150 million less than their male counterparts over an eight year period. The Friday filing in Los Angeles County Superior Court seeks to persuade the judge to certify a…
By Jonathan Landay WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. State Department report on Friday criticized the handling of the 2021 evacuation from Afghanistan, saying decisions by President Joe Biden and his predecessor Donald Trump to withdraw troops had “serious consequences for the viability” and security of the former U.S.-backed government. Adverse findings in the report also reflected…
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – A federal judge on Friday said Pilgrim’s Pride, Sanderson Farms, Tyson Foods and several other companies must face private antitrust litigation accusing them of conspiring to inflate broiler chicken prices by reducing supply. Restaurants, supermarkets, distributors and consumers have accused chicken producers of having conspired starting in 2008 to inflate…
