By David Randall NEW YORK (Reuters) – Investors suffering through a bruising year for markets are hoping that recent signs of wobbling economic growth will force the Federal Reserve and other global central banks to take their foot off the gas in the f…
Factbox-Nine U.S. House races to watch in the midterm election
By Moira Warburton WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Control of the U.S. House of Representatives is at stake in the Nov. 8 midterm elections, with Republicans favored by nonpartisan forecasters to win a majority in the chamber, which would allow them to block Pr…
Exclusive-Biden to nominate U.S. surgeon general to join WHO executive board -official
By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden intends to nominate Surgeon General Vivek Murthy to be the U.S. representative on the World Health Organization’s executive board, administration officials told Reuters on Tuesday. Murthy has serv…
Pressure on Germany as energy crunch revives EU divisions over joint debt
By Jan Strupczewski and Gabriela Baczynska BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Two top European Union officials on Tuesday called for joint borrowing to help the 27-nation bloc navigate the energy crunch together, after Germany faced criticism for going its own way w…
Doctors urge U.S. FDA to add miscarriage management to abortion pill label
By Ahmed Aboulenein WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Obstetricians, gynecologists, other medical professionals, and abortion rights advocates petitioned the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Tuesday to urge Danco Laboratories to seek approval of mifepri…
Wall St closes up as data, RBA move lifts hope of Fed easing
By Herbert Lash, Ankika Biswas and Bansari Mayur Kamdar (Reuters) -Wall Street rallied for a second straight day to end higher on Tuesday after softer U.S. economic data and a smaller-than-expected interest rate hike by the Australian central bank stir…
U.S. FAA mandates new flight attendant rest time rules
ARLINGTON, Virginia (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Tuesday finalized new rules requiring airline flight attendants receive at least 10 hours of rest time between shifts, an action that Congress directed in 2018. The FAA f…
Lula, Bolsonaro seek new allies for tight Brazil runoff
By Anthony Boadle and Ricardo Brito BRASILIA (Reuters) -Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and his leftist challenger were hunting endorsements on Tuesday, party officials said, as they fine tuned their campaigns for a runoff in an election that has pr…
Nobel physics prize goes to sleuths of ‘spooky’ quantum science
By Johan Ahlander, Ludwig Burger and Niklas Pollard STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Scientists Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics for experiments in quantum mechanics that laid the groundwork for rapidly-developing …
Truss faces new challenge over UK welfare payments
By Andrew MacAskill and Kylie MacLellan BIRMINGHAM, England (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Liz Truss triggered a new row in her party on Tuesday by suggesting she could limit increases in benefit payments by less than soaring inflation as she seeks …