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By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – A $117 million settlement has been reached with former PG&E Corp executives and directors who were accused in a lawsuit of lax oversight of the utility’s safety measures prior to the 2017 North Bay and 2018 Camp wildfire…

By Brad Brooks and Brendan O’Brien VENICE, Fla. (Reuters) -Emergency crews raced on Thursday to reach stranded Florida residents as Hurricane Ian trained its sights on the Carolinas after cutting a coast-to-coast path of destruction across Florida, lea…

By Susan Mathew and Ankika Biswas (Reuters) – U.S. stock indexes slipped on Thursday as worries of a global economic downturn from aggressive central bank rate hikes and risks of potential contagion from a turmoil in UK markets turned investors risk av…

By Stephanie van den Berg THE HAGUE (Reuters) -A U.N. tribunal in The Hague opened the genocide trial on Thursday of a Rwandan businessman captured two years ago after decades on the run, with judges saying the hearing must go on despite the suspect’s …

By Francesco Canepa and Balazs Koranyi VILNIUS/FRANKFURT (Reuters) -ECB policymakers continued to line up on Thursday behind another big interest rate hike as inflation in the euro zone’s biggest economy hit double digits, blasting past expectations an…

By Andrew Chung (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court last March rebuffed an emergency request by North Carolina Republicans to allow the use in November’s congressional elections of an electoral map they drew that a lower court invalidated for unlawfully…

By Trevor Hunnicutt and Hyonhee Shin PANMUNJOM, South Korea (Reuters) -U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris said North Korea is a country with a “brutal dictatorship”, an illegal arms programme and rampant human rights violations, issuing unusually strong…

By Yew Lun Tian BEIJING (Reuters) – China signalled on Thursday no let-up in its combative approach to foreign policy in a third term for Xi Jinping as leader despite criticism from many Western diplomats that the so-called Wolf Warrior stance has been…

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – Donald Trump is seeking a quick end to the defamation lawsuit by an author who claims he raped her more than a quarter century ago. A lawyer for the former U.S. president asked a federal judge in Manhattan on We…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday voted to advance a bill that would update fees companies pay for merger reviews and strengthen state attorneys general in antitrust fights, according to Majority Leader Steny Hoyer’s …