By Kate Abnett, Gloria Dickie and William James SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Reuters) – Government ministers and negotiators from nearly 200 countries on Tuesday began the hard slog of finding common ground for a deal at the annual U.N. climate summit, as h…
What to watch on Tuesday at COP27
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Reuters) – With COP27 climate summit negotiations grinding over political points and technical details, delegates were hoping the G20 summit starting Tuesday in Indonesia offers a boost to ambition for global action on fighting …
Australians rescued from rooftops as torrential rain ravages rural towns
By Renju Jose SYDNEY (Reuters) – Hundreds of residents in flood-ravaged Australia’s southeast were rescued by helicopter and boat after rivers rose rapidly on Tuesday, cutting off entire towns and inundating houses, highways, bridges and farms. Emergen…
Oscar-winner Paul Haggis ordered to pay $7.5 million in civil rape case
By Jack Queen (Reuters) -A New York jury on Thursday found Oscar-winning screenwriter and director Paul Haggis liable for raping a publicist at his Manhattan apartment in 2013, ordering him to pay at least $7.5 million in damages in the civil case, an …
Ex-special master in Giuliani case named watchdog of Trump Organization
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) – Barbara Jones, a retired U.S. federal judge who also served as a special master in a case involving Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, was appointed on Monday by a New York judge as a watchdog of the former …
Marketmind: Listen to Lael
By Jamie McGeever (Reuters) – A look at the day ahead in Asian markets from Jamie McGeever. With U.S. inflation looking increasingly likely to have peaked, debate is raging on how the Federal Reserve pivot will play out – when and how policymakers slow…
Tesla driver’s criminal trial in California delayed
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – California prosecutors have asked a court to delay a trial for a Tesla Model S driver who faces manslaughter charges over a 2019 crash that left two people dead, according to court documents. The trial, originally scheduled to…
Wall Street ends lower as investors gauge Fed’s policy path
By Lewis Krauskopf, Ankika Biswas and Amruta Khandekar (Reuters) – Wall Street’s main indexes ended lower on Monday, with real estate and discretionary sectors leading broad declines, as investors digested comments from U.S. Federal Reserve officials a…
Comedian Jay Leno suffers burns in car fire in his L.A. garage
By Danielle Broadway (Reuters) – Comedian Jay Leno was taken to Grossman Burn Center after his face was burned in his Los Angeles garage when one of his cars burst into flames.. The left side of former “The Tonight Show” host’s face was burned, but Len…
Google to pay nearly $400 million to settle U.S. location-tracking probe
By Diane Bartz, David Shepardson and Karen Freifeld WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Alphabet’s Google will pay $391.5 million to settle allegations by 40 states that the search and advertising giant illegally tracked users’ locations, the Michigan attorney gener…