By Jarrett Renshaw and James Oliphant PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) -Top rivals for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination on Friday addressed the national conference of Moms for Liberty, appealing to the conservative parents-rights advocacy group with vows to bolster education and keep discussion of gender identity out of the classroom. “Don’t mess with America’s moms,” former President…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – CIA Director William Burns called Russian spy chief Sergei Naryshkin after last week’s aborted mutiny in Russia to assure the Kremlin that the United States had no role in it, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. Burns’ phone call with Naryshkin, the head of Russia’s SVR…
By Andrew Chung (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative-majority ruling letting certain businesses refuse to provide services for same-sex marriages could impact an array of customers beyond LGBT people, according to the court’s liberal justices. But experts were divided over how far this ripple effect could spread. Friday’s ruling protected Denver-area web designer Lorie…
By Sinéad Carew, Sruthi Shankar and Johann M Cherian (Reuters) – Wall Street’s three major indexes advanced solidly on Friday, with the tech-heavy Nasdaq boasting its biggest first-half gain in 40 years as inflation showed signs of cooling while Apple closed with a $3 trillion market valuation for the first time. Apple Inc breached the…
By Saeed Azhar, Tatiana Bautzer and Nupur Anand NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. banks including JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley hiked their third-quarter dividends on Friday after sailing through the Federal Reserve’s annual health check, which showed they have enough capital to weather a severe economic downturn. JPMorgan, the biggest U.S….
By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) – A U.S. B-52 strategic bomber took part in military exercises with South Korea on Friday, Seoul officials said, in the latest show of force amid tension over North Korea’s failed launch of a spy satellite. The U.S. military also flew its F-16 and F-15 fighters alongside the bomber for…
(Reuters) – Nokia said on Friday it had signed a new long-term patent license agreement with Apple, as the current license between the companies expires at the end of 2023. While terms of the agreement remain confidential between the companies, it covers Nokia’s inventions in 5G and other technologies. Nokia said the company expects to…
(Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court has issued a series of important rulings during its term that began last October on issues including affirmative action, student loans, free speech, LGBT rights, voting rights, immigration and environmental regulation. Here is a look at some of the rulings issued by the court this term. AFFIRMATIVE ACTION The…
By John Kruzel and Andrew Chung WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court has wrapped up another term in which its conservative justices flexed their muscles, following up major abortion and gun decisions last year with rulings that rejected affirmative action in college admissions, curbed LGBT rights and blocked President Joe Biden’s student debt relief…
By Lewis Krauskopf NEW YORK (Reuters) -The U.S. stock market has powered higher in the first half of this year despite numerous obstacles, from banking sector turmoil to recurring doubts about the economy’s health. The S&P 500 is up 15.9% in 2023 – a rebound that surprised many analysts after equities’ brutal 2022 decline. The…
