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Republican Speaker McCarthy opposes extending debt-ceiling through fiscal year
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy said on Tuesday he opposes the idea of extending the nation's debt-ceiling through the end of the fiscal year on ...
May 09, 2023
French Interior Minister wants to ban all ultra-right demonstrations
PARIS (Reuters) - France's interior minister said on Tuesday he had asked local prefects to ban all ultra-right demonstrations after authorities were criticized for allowing a march of far-right activ...
May 09, 2023
Fed’s Williams says inflation still too high, eyeing financial conditions
By Michael S. Derby NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Federal Reserve President John Williams said on Tuesday that inflation remains too high, noting that he'll be monitoring how the aftermath of recent b...
May 09, 2023
US wants WHO to invite Taiwan to observe May meeting -Blinken
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States strongly encourages the World Health Organization to invite Taiwan to participate as an observer at its annual meeting in Geneva from May 21-30, Secretary of S...
May 09, 2023
Rio de Janeiro to host G20 summit in 2024
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - The world' largest economies grouped in the G20 will hold their annual heads of state or government summit next year in Rio de Janeiro, state Governor Claudio Castro said. B...
May 09, 2023
Alphabet-backed Anthropic outlines the moral values behind its AI bot
By Stephen Nellis (Reuters) - Anthropic, an artificial intelligence startup backed by Google owner Alphabet Inc, on Tuesday disclosed the set of written moral values that it used to train and make saf...
May 09, 2023
Coinbase ex-manager sentenced to 2 years in prison in US insider trading case
By Jody Godoy NEW YORK (Reuters) - Ishan Wahi, a former Coinbase Global Inc product manager, was sentenced on Tuesday to two years in prison in what U.S. prosecutors have called the first insider trad...
May 09, 2023
Meloni opens talks on constitutional reform, long a mirage in Italy
By Angelo Amante ROME (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Tuesday began meetings with opposition parties to discuss her plans to reform the constitution and end chronic political inst...
May 09, 2023
Americans’ confidence in Powell hits a low mark for a Fed chief, poll shows
(Reuters) - Americans' confidence in Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell's economic stewardship has skidded to the lowest of any recent U.S. central bank head, according to a Gallup poll released Tues...
May 09, 2023
ISS backs all 4 ValueAct director candidates in Seven & I boardroom fight
By Svea Herbst-Bayliss NEW YORK (Reuters) - Proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) on Tuesday backed ValueAct Capital's boardroom challenge at Japanese convenience store operator...
May 09, 2023
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