By Brendan O’Brien (Reuters) – Darrell Brooks, a Wisconsin man who killed six people and injured dozens of others when he drove his SUV into a Christmas parade near Milwaukee last year, was found guilty on Wednesday of intentional murder and other char…
Remains of U.S. citizen killed in Ukraine being returned to family -State Dept
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The remains of a U.S. citizen killed in fighting in Ukraine have been identified and released to Ukrainian authorities and will soon be returned to the person’s family, a State Department spokesperson said on Wednesday. State Dep…
PGA Tour, U.S. Golf Association, Augusta National Golf Club under DOJ probe -report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Augusta National Golf Club, the U.S. Golf Association and PGA of America are included in the U.S. Justice Department’s antitrust investigation into professional golf, according to a Wall Street Journal report on Wednesday that cit…
Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows ordered to testify in Trump Georgia probe
By Joseph Ax (Reuters) – Mark Meadows, Donald Trump’s former White House chief of staff, was ordered by a South Carolina judge on Wednesday to testify in a Georgia criminal probe investigating whether the former president and his allies broke the law b…
Bank of Canada surprises with 50 bps hike, says slight recession possible
By Julie Gordon and David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) – The Bank of Canada announced a smaller-than-expected interest rate hike on Wednesday and made clear more increases were still needed, even as it forecast that the economy could soon slip into a sli…
New frontline of U.S. abortion battles emerges in New Mexico
By Brad Brooks CLOVIS, New Mexico (Reuters) – The new frontline of the U.S. abortion battle is on the remote plains of New Mexico, where two conservative towns are set to outlaw the medical procedure despite it remaining legal in the state after Roe v….
U.S. alleges Seagate broke export rules to sell Huawei hard drives -source
By Karen Freifeld (Reuters) -Seagate Technology Holdings said in a filing on Wednesday that it has been warned by the U.S. government that the company may have violated export control laws by providing hard disk drives to a customer on a trade blacklis…
First plane repatriating Venezuelan migrants in Mexico departs for Caracas, sources say
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – A first flight carrying Venezuelan migrants voluntarily returning to their homeland from Mexico departed on Tuesday, according to two Mexican officials. Mexico is dealing with a major increase in the number of Venezuelans fleein…
Kremlin says Griner prisoner swap must be negotiated behind closed doors
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin on Wednesday said that a potential prisoner exchange with the United States to free U.S. WNBA basketball star Brittney Griner, who is serving a nine-year prison sentence in Russia on drug smuggling charges, can only be ne…
UK PM Rishi Sunak delays fiscal statement to Nov. 17
By William James and Sachin Ravikumar LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Wednesday delayed the announcement of a plan to repair the country’s public finances until Nov. 17, two-and-a-half weeks later than originally planned….