NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Friday authorized a Rudy Giuliani associate indicted on campaign finance charges to turn over documents and the contents of his iPhone to a House panel as part of the impeachment process against President Donald Trump. FILE PHOTO: Ukrainian-American businessman Lev Parnas, an associate of President Donald Trump’s
Month: January 2020
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Trump administration will send a big contingent of senior officials to an annual technology gathering in Las Vegas next week as the tech industry faces increased scrutiny in Washington. FILE PHOTO: The logos of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google are seen in a combination photo from Reuters files. REUTERS/File Photo Transportation
FILE PHOTO: Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Senator Cory Booker attends an event as part of his bus tour in Sioux City, Iowa, U.S. December 20, 2019. Picture taken December 20, 2019. REUTERS/Brenna Norman WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Cory Booker raised $6.6 million in the last three months of 2019 for his bid to win
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iran promised vengeance after a U.S. air strike in Baghdad on Friday killed Qassem Soleimani, Tehran’s most prominent military commander and the architect of its growing influence in the Middle East. Soleimani, a 62-year-old general who headed the overseas arm of the Revolutionary Guards, was regarded as the second most powerful figure
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Tesla Inc’s (TSLA.O) short sellers have suffered $3 billion in losses since the end of 2018, including a $500 million hit on Friday after the electric carmaker’s quarterly deliveries beat investors’ expectations and drove its stock to a record high. Traders shorting Tesla have lost about $900 million in just the
(Reuters) – Harvey Weinstein, who transformed the independent film world with award-winning movies such as “Shakespeare in Love” and “The English Patient”, faces criminal sexual assault charges before a jury trial in New York state court to begin next week. FILE PHOTO: Film producer Harvey Weinstein exits following a hearing in his sexual assault case
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Denis Shapovalov won the battle of the next generation against Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas to help Canada to an emphatic 3-0 victory in the inaugural ATP Cup men’s team event in Brisbane on Friday. Tennis – ATP Cup – Queensland Tennis Centre, Brisbane, Australia – January 3, 2020 Canada’s Denis Shapovalov reacts during
(Reuters) – Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) beat Wall Street estimates for annual vehicle deliveries and met the low-end of its own target, sending shares to a record high in a vindication for Chief Executive Elon Musk after a few turbulent years. FILE PHOTO: China-made Tesla Model 3 vehicles are seen at the Shanghai Gigafactory of the
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel’s prime minister defended a U.S. decision to launch an air strike on Friday that killed powerful Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani and the Israeli military was put on high alert, after Iran threatened revenge. An Israeli soldier walks next to a line of tanks in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights January 3, 2020.
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Renewable energy’s share of Germany’s overall power supply mix rose by 5.4 percentage points last year to 46%, data from Europe’s biggest state-funded research and development service showed. FILE PHOTO: Power-generating wind turbines are seen near the city of Halle, Belgium, November 19, 2019 REUTERS/Yves Herman/File Photo Europe’s biggest economy is aiming
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. appeals court judges on Friday appeared skeptical about broad legal arguments made by President Donald Trump’s administration in seeking to block former White House Counsel Don McGahn from testifying to a congressional committee as part of the impeachment effort against Trump. FILE PHOTO: White House Counsel Don McGahn listens to Supreme
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Friday began hearing arguments in a bid by President Donald Trump’s administration to block former White House Counsel Don McGahn from testifying to a congressional committee as part of the impeachment effort against Trump. FILE PHOTO: White House Counsel Don McGahn listens to Supreme Court nominee Brett
FILE PHOTO: Justin Bieber performs at iHeartRadio Jingle Ball concert at Staples Center in Los Angeles, Californiam U.S., December 2, 2016. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni LONDON (Reuters) – Canadian pop star Justin Bieber released his first solo single in four years on Friday, kicking off a career comeback that will see him release a new album, go
ISTANBUL/TOKYO (Reuters) – A Turkish private jet operator said on Friday that ex-Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn used two of its planes illegally in his escape from Japan, with an employee falsifying lease records to exclude his name from the documents. FILE PHOTO: Former Nissan Motor Chariman Carlos Ghosn leaves the Tokyo Detention House in Tokyo,
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian sports stars, sparked in part by a call to action from tennis player Nick Kyrgios, have rallied to raise funds in support of relief and recovery efforts for victims of the country’s bushfire catastrophe. FILE PHOTO: Australia’s Nick Kyrgios in action against Germany’s Jan-Lennard Struff on Jan 3, REUTERS/Tracey Nearmy/File Photo
BEIJING (Reuters) – China has decided to keep its inflation target unchanged this year at around 3%, sources say, suggesting policymakers will continue to roll out more economic support measures while avoiding aggressive stimulus. FILE PHOTO: A vendor is seen in her store at a supermarket in downtown Beijing, China, May 23, 2019. REUTERS/Jason Lee
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia will carry out cloud seeding on Friday in a bid to prevent further rainfall over the capital Jakarta, after deadly flash floods and landslides following some of the heaviest rains ever recorded. FILE PHOTO: Youth sits on a car at an area flooded after heavy rains in Jakarta, Indonesia, January 2,
SYDNEY (Reuters) – The Australian village of Thredbo in the Snowy Mountains region has been evacuated and is under threat from fast-approaching fires that have razed bushland in the country’s east. A mural is seen on the side of a building in Jindabyne, a township affected by the Dunns Road bushfire, in New South Wales,
FILE PHOTO: A China-made Tesla Model 3 vehicle is seen at a delivery ceremony in the Shanghai Gigafactory of the U.S. electric car maker in Shanghai, China December 30, 2019. REUTERS/Yilei Sun SHANGHAI (Reuters) – U.S. electric vehicle maker Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) cut the starting price for its China-made Model 3 sedans by 16% to
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – White House hopeful Elizabeth Warren said on Thursday that raising the minimum hourly wage to $15 and ending a program that allow employers to pay disabled workers much less than the minimum would be among steps she would take to ensure financial security for individuals with disabilities. FILE PHOTO: U.S. democratic presidential
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate is due to hold a trial to consider whether President Donald Trump should be removed from office, after the House of Representatives voted in December to impeach him for pressuring Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden, a potential rival in the 2020 presidential election. U.S. Speaker of
FILE PHOTO: Iranian Revolutionary Guard Commander Qassem Soleimani stands at the frontline during offensive operations against Islamic State militants in the town of Tal Ksaiba in Salahuddin province March 8, 2015. Stringer via REUTERS/File Photo BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iranian Major-General Qassem Soleimani, head of the elite Quds Force, and Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal urged organisers of the ATP Cup and Davis Cup Finals to consider a possible merger, saying it makes little sense to have two men’s team competitions on the tennis calendar. FILE PHOTO: Winner Novak Djokovic (R) of Serbia and runner-up Rafa Nadal of Spain attend the award
FILE PHOTO: Shoppers make their way as Christmas lights illuminate Regent Street in London, Britain, December 7, 2019. REUTERS/Lisi Niesner LONDON (Reuters) – British shop prices fell in December for the seventh month running as retailers ramped up discounts to attract shoppers in the run-up to Christmas, an industry survey showed on Friday. Store prices
FILE PHOTO: Dominic Cummings, special adviser for Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson is seen at Downing Street in London, Britain October 23, 2019. REUTERS/Toby Melville LONDON (Reuters) – The senior adviser to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who plotted Brexit and steered his boss to last month’s election triumph, is on the lookout for “weirdos and
BATEMAN’S BAY, Australia/Sydney (Reuters) – The Australian navy on Friday began the evacuations of some of the thousands of people stranded on the east coast of the fire-ravaged country as a searing weather front was set to whip up more blazes across the states of Victoria and New South Wales (NSW). At the peak of
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Global stock markets jumped on the first day of trading in 2020 as a shot of Chinese stimulus and economic data drove a gauge of world equity performance to the latest in a series of record highs, while the dollar snapped a four-day losing streak. Wall Street’s three major indexes closed
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Newly passed legislation will push the U.S. State Department to disclose how it polices the sale of cyber tools and services abroad. FILE PHOTO: A man types on a computer keyboard in this illustration picture taken February 28, 2013. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel The move followed a Reuters investigation which revealed that American intelligence
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A cousin of the starfish that resides in the coral reefs of the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico lacks eyes, but can still see, according to scientists who studied this creature that expands the boundaries of the sense of sight in the animal kingdom. A red brittle star, Ophiocoma wendtii, is seen
FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivers remarks on human rights in Iran at the State Department in Washington, U.S., December 19, 2019. REUTERS/Erin Scott WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States imposed sanctions on Thursday on Cuba’s defense minister, accusing him of human rights violations and supporting socialist Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, Secretary