By Moira Warburton, Lawrence Hurley and Andrew Chung WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Joe Biden’s U.S. Supreme Court nominee, on Tuesday defended her past legal representation of Guantanamo Bay detainees, rejected Republican accus…
Wall Street stocks, Treasury yields rise on hawkish Fed comments
By Lawrence Delevingne BOSTON (Reuters) – U.S. stocks regained ground on Tuesday, while Treasury yields and Brent crude oil prices continued to climb, as investors adjusted their expectations for interest rate hikes following hawkish comments from the …
‘Cowboys for Trump’ founder guilty of breaching U.S. Capitol in win for prosecutors
By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A New Mexico county commissioner who founded a group called “Cowboys for Trump” was found guilty by a judge on Tuesday of breaching the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021 riot, a second consecutive win at trial for …
Wall Street gains, with tech, growth shares in the lead
By Caroline Valetkevitch NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. stocks ended higher on Tuesday, led by a 2% gain in the Nasdaq, as shares of technology and other big growth names rebounded from recent losses and Nike rose after it reported upbeat results. Financial…
Shanghai’s local COVID cases hit daily record as Jilin outbreak persists
BEIJING (Reuters) -China’s financial hub Shanghai on Tuesday reported a fifth consecutive daily record for locally transmitted COVID-19 asymptomatic cases as the highly infectious Omicron variant complicates efforts to stop the virus spreading. Althoug…
Arab attacker kills four in Israel and is fatally shot, police say
JERUSALEM (Reuters) -An Arab assailant killed at least four people in Israel’s southern city of Beersheba on Tuesday in the deadliest such attack in years, before he was fatally shot by a passer-by, police said. Police identified the attacker as an Ara…
Italian study shows ventilation can cut school COVID cases by 82%
ROME (Reuters) – An Italian study published on Tuesday suggests that efficient ventilation systems can reduce the transmission of COVID-19 in schools by more than 80%. An experiment overseen by the Hume foundation think-tank compared coronavirus contag…
Dancing Musk hands drivers first Teslas from new German gigafactory
By Victoria Waldersee and Nadine Schimroszik GRUENHEIDE, Germany (Reuters) -Elon Musk was cheered as he oversaw the handover of Tesla’s first German-made cars at its Gruenheide plant on Tuesday, marking the start of the U.S. automaker’s inaugural Europ…
Europe struggles to meet mounting needs of Ukraine’s fleeing millions
By Anna Wlodarczak-Semczuk, Pawel Florkiewicz and Luiza Ilie WARSAW/BUCHAREST (Reuters) – More than 3.5 million people have fled abroad from the war in Ukraine, United Nations data showed on Tuesday, leaving Eastern Europe scrambling to provide them wi…
Kremlin critic Navalny rallies supporters after new nine-year sentence
(Reuters) -Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny urged his supporters to show their opposition to the Russian government after a court sentenced him to nine years in prison on Tuesday for fraud and contempt. The 45-year-old was already serving a two-and…