By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) – Access to the abortion pill mifepristone must be restricted, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Wednesday, ordering a ban on telemedicine prescriptions and shipments of the drug by mail, though the decision will not immediately take effect. The New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals stopped short of ruling…
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — In a growing challenge to Russia’s grip on occupied areas of southeastern Ukraine, guerrilla forces loyal to Kyiv are killing pro-Moscow officials, blowing up bridges and trains, and helping the Ukrainian military by identifying key targets. The spreading resistance has eroded Kremlin control of those areas and threatened its plans to…
By Steve Keating ROCHESTER, New York (Reuters) – Brooks Koepka claimed a PGA Championship hat-trick and a landmark major win for LIV Golf on Sunday but the day also belonged to Michael Block, a 46-year-old club professional, who capped a golfing fairytale with a hole-in-one. Koepka, saying he had learned his lessons from last month’s…
(Reuters) – Here is a timeline of events that led to charges against former U.S. President Donald Trump and others over government records, some marked as highly sensitive, stored at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida after he left the White House in January 2021: Feb. 9, 2022: The National Archives and Records Administration asks the…
By Aditi Shah and Arpan Chaturvedi NEW DELHI (Reuters) -A union in India has sued General Motors’ local unit and its global CEO for failing to pay court-ordered compensation to sacked factory workers, deepening the U.S. automaker’s struggles to exit the country years after it shuttered local operations. GM stopped selling cars in India in…
(Reuters) -The holding company of U.S. insurer American International Group Inc’s life and retirement business, SAFG Retirement Services Inc, filed for an initial public offering in the United States on Monday. In the filing, SAFG reported total revenue of $23.39 billion for the year ended Dec. 31, up 55%. In the same period, adjusted after-tax…
By Raghav Mahobe (Reuters) -Ironwood Pharmaceuticals Inc said on Monday it would buy Switzerland-based drug developer VectivBio Holding AG for $1.15 billion, adding a promising treatment for digestive disorders to its portfolio. Ironwood has offered $17 per share for VectivBio, a premium of about 43% to the stock’s last close. VectivBio’s shares were at $16.21…
BERLIN/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -German Economy Minister Robert Habeck expressed optimism before departing on a trip to the United States on Monday that a European Union trade dispute with Washington can be resolved soon. Many EU leaders are worried the local content requirements of $369 billion of green subsidies in the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act will encourage…
By Lananh Nguyen, Saeed Azhar and Lawrence White NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) -Bankers in New York and London are bracing for year-end bonuses that recruiters estimate are 30% to 50% lower, while some may receive none at all as dealmaking sputters and economic gloom sets takes hold. Financiers face disappointment when their compensation awards land…
By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss NEW YORK (Reuters) – The dollar edged higher on Tuesday in choppy trading, with no clear direction, as investors kept an eye on debt ceiling talks to avert a possible default that could reverberate across asset markets and damage confidence in the world’s largest economy. The dollar index, a measure of the…
