By Mike Stone WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden is expected to ask Congress for more than $770 billion for his U.S. defense budget for the next fiscal year as the Pentagon seeks to modernize the military, according to three sources familiar wi…
U.S. agency refers 80 unruly airplane passengers for potential prosecution
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A total of 80 unruly airplane passengers have been referred to the FBI for potential criminal prosecution, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said on Wednesday, as onboard disruptions rose sharply in 202…
Pennsylvania’s moderate Democrat Lamb distances himself from Manchin
By Jarrett Renshaw JENKINTOWN, Pa. (Reuters) – Congressman Conor Lamb has a message to Pennsylvania Democrats who wonder whether he is liberal enough to represent them in the U.S. Senate: He is no Joe Manchin. Locked in a tight nominating race with the…
Canadian police warn truckers to leave downtown Ottawa or face arrest
By David Ljunggren and Julie Gordon OTTAWA (Reuters) – Police in the Canadian capital Ottawa on Wednesday started warning truck drivers blockading the downtown core that they should depart or face arrest, part of a promised crackdown to end a three-wee…
Gold, oil rise on Ukraine crisis; U.S. stocks end flat
By Herbert Lash NEW YORK (Reuters) – Oil and gold rose on Wednesday after NATO and the United States said Russia was increasing its troop build-up near Ukraine, while a dovish reading of minutes from the last Federal Reserve meeting helped stocks close…
Carson Block’s Muddy Waters among short sellers being probed by U.S. Justice Dept
By Jody Godoy, Svea Herbst-Bayliss and Chris Prentice (Reuters) -U.S. short seller Carson Block is being probed by the Justice Department as part of a wide-ranging investigation into short-sellers and hedge funds focused on suspected coordinated manipu…
Wall Street pares losses, gyrates after release of Fed minutes
By Stephen Culp NEW YORK (Reuters) – Wall Street bounced off session lows and seesawed on Wednesday after the U.S. Federal Reserve released the minutes from its most recent monetary policy meeting, which showed the while the central bank intends to beg…
Senior schools reopen in India’s Karnataka state amid hijab row
By Sunil Kataria UDUPI, India (Reuters) -Senior schools reopened in the Indian state of Karnataka on Wednesday a week after authorities closed them in the face of protests against a ban on female students wearing the hijab Muslim head covering in class…
Biden allows Jan. 6 panel access to Trump’s White House visitor logs
By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden has rejected former President Donald Trump’s executive privilege claims and ordered White House visitor logs to be released to the panel investigating the deadly Jan. 6, 2021 attack, accor…
In joust with Putin, Germany’s Scholz displays more assertive style
(Corrects year in paragraph 5) By Sarah Marsh and Madeline Chambers MOSCOW/BERLIN (Reuters) -German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has been accused of weak leadership in the Ukraine crisis and being soft on Russia. Yet on his visit to the Kremlin on Tuesday, h…