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PacWest shares extend recovery on sale of real-estate lending unit
(Reuters) - Shares of PacWest Bancorp climbed 6.4% in premarket trading on Wednesday after the U.S. mid-sized lender agreed to sell its property lending unit in the second asset sale this week to bols...
May 24, 2023
Exclusive-Russian hypersonic scientist accused of betraying secrets to China – sources
By Filipp Lebedev, Lucy Papachristou and Mark Trevelyan LONDON (Reuters) - The director of a top Russian science institute, arrested on suspicion of treason along with two other hypersonic missile tec...
May 24, 2023
Soccer-Argentina to visit Indonesia for national team friendly
JAKARTA (Reuters) - World Cup winners Argentina will visit Indonesia next month for a friendly against its national team, its top football official said on Wednesday, in a boost for a country that has...
May 24, 2023
Factbox-Who’s who in the Supreme Court’s affirmative action cases
By Gabriella Borter (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court is due to rule by the end of June on the legality of race-conscious admissions policies at colleges and universities, a practice called affirmati...
May 24, 2023
Explainer-What happens if the US Supreme Court bans affirmative action?
By Joseph Ax (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court is set to rule by the end of June on whether colleges and universities can continue to consider race as part of their student admissions decisions, a pr...
May 24, 2023
US colleges game out a possible end to race-conscious student admissions
By Gabriella Borter WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In 1998, the year a voter-approved measure barring the use of race-conscious admissions policies for public colleges and universities in California took effe...
May 24, 2023
AI startup Figure raises $70 million to build humanoid robots
By Krystal Hu (Reuters) - Figure, a startup that wants to build general-purpose humanoid robots, has raised $70 million from investors led by Parkway Venture Capital in its first external round, the c...
May 24, 2023
Ron DeSantis to make 2024 U.S. presidential bid official with Musk on Twitter
By James Oliphant WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is expected to make his long-awaited foray into the 2024 presidential race on Wednesday in an unusual manner - at an event with b...
May 24, 2023
Halle Bailey soaks up good vibes for Ariel role in ‘Little Mermaid’
By Danielle Broadway and Rollo Ross LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - As the second Black Disney princess in history, Halle Bailey, who plays Ariel in the new "The Little Mermaid" movie, says she has been moved...
May 24, 2023
Futures dip as debt ceiling talks drag on
(Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures slipped on Wednesday as yet another round of talks between the White House and Republican representatives over raising the debt ceiling failed to make a breakthrou...
May 24, 2023
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