WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Three Democrats in the Tennessee legislature who faced expulsion over their participation in gun control protests will visit the White House on Monday as U.S. President Joe Biden continues to press for an assault weapons ban, the White House said. Biden wants to “thank them for speaking out and standing their ground and…
By Ismail Shakil and Steve Scherer OTTAWA (Reuters) -About 155,000 federal workers in Canada walked off the job on Wednesday after failing to reach a deal for higher wages and work-from-home guarantees, a strike that affects a range of public services from tax returns to passport renewals. The Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) union…
By Dietrich Knauth (Reuters) -The Boys Scouts of America said on Wednesday it had emerged from bankruptcy after battling back appeals over its $2.46 billion settlement of decades of sexual abuse claims. The Boy Scouts’ three-year Chapter 11 bankruptcy case resulted in the largest sexual abuse settlement fund in U.S. history and resolves claims by…
KYIV (Reuters) – Russian forces are stepping up their use of heavy artillery and air strikes in the devastated eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, the commander of Ukraine’s ground forces said on Tuesday. Fighting in and around Bakhmut has for months been the epicentre of the war in Ukraine. “Currently, the enemy is increasing the…
By Manya Saini and Tatiana Bautzer (Reuters) – Morgan Stanley’s profit beat expectations as wealth management revenue climbed in the first quarter, offsetting slumps in investment banking and trading revenue. The bank earned $1.70 per share, beating analysts’ average estimate of $1.62 per share, according to Refinitiv data. Its stock edged 0.5% higher to $90.34 in…
(Reuters) -Lawyers for Tyre Nichols’ family filed a $550 million federal lawsuit against the city of Memphis on Wednesday, seeking damages in the beating death in January of the 29-year-old Black man at the hands of police, attorney Ben Crump said. The lawsuit and the massive award that the family is seeking are meant to…
By Emilio Parodi and Foo Yun Chee MILAN/BRUSSELS (Reuters) -European Union antitrust regulators have started inspecting a facility of luxury goods company Gucci as part of an EU investigation spanning several countries, Gucci’s French owner Kering said on Wednesday confirming a Reuters report. “The group is fully cooperating with the (European) Commission in the context…
LONDON (Reuters) – Pope Francis has gifted fragments believed to be from the True Cross on which Jesus was crucified to form part of a new processional cross which will be used at the coronation of Britain’s King Charles next month. The new cross, made from recycled silver along with Welsh slate and reclaimed wood,…
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Forty-two German associations and trade unions representing more than 140,000 authors and performers on Wednesday urged the European Union to beef up draft artificial intelligence rules as they singled out the threat to their copyright from ChatGPT. Trade unions for the creative sector Verdi and DGB and associations…
By Akhtar Soomro KARACHI (Reuters) – Women pedal sewing machines, deftly lining up seams and pleats as they assemble brightly coloured dresses for young girls at an orphanage in Pakistan, in preparation for Eid al-Fitr, which ends the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. Yet as an economic crisis forces people to tighten their belts, fewer…
