By Saqib Iqbal Ahmed NEW YORK (Reuters) -The safe-haven dollar rose to a fresh four-week high against a basket of currencies on Monday, supported by fears of a global economic slowdown and bets on steep interest rate hikes by the U.S. Federal Reserve. …
Top Tony awards for ‘A Strange Loop,’ ‘Lehman Trilogy’ in Broadway season after pandemic
By Lisa Richwine (Reuters) – “A Strange Loop,” the story of a Black gay man and his mental struggles as a playwright, won the Tony award for best new musical on Sunday as Broadway honored its first season since the long pandemic shutdown. “The Lehman T…
Report casts doubt on net-zero emissions pledges by big global companies
By Gloria Dickie and Simon Jessop LONDON (Reuters) – Corporate plans to slash greenhouse gas emissions fall short of what is needed to combat climate change, with “major credibility gaps” found among the world’s largest companies, according to a new st…
Golf-PGA Tour commissioner labels LIV an exhibition series of free-riders
By Steve Keating TORONTO (Reuters) – PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan visited the players on the front line of golf’s feud with the LIV Golf Invitational Series at the Canadian Open on Sunday, and blasted those who have jumped to the Saudi-backed vent…
Biden to travel to Saudi Arabia, Israel next month -source
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden will travel to Saudi Arabia and Israel next month and the White House is planning to announce the trip this week, a source familiar with the planning said on Sunday. Biden’s trip, which is expected to take…
Canadian police probe possible bomb threat to parliament – source
By Steve Scherer OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canadian police are investigating a possible risk to national security that forced parliament to lock down for several hours on Saturday after border agents warned of a bomb threat, a government source said on Sunday…
Former Trump campaign manager, ex-Georgia official to testify at Jan. 6 panel’s ‘Big Lie’ hearing
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A former campaign manager for ex-President Donald Trump and former officials from Atlanta and Philadelphia will testify on Monday to the U.S. congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on …
Astra’s NASA mission suffers failure, loss of weather satellites
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Rocket firm Astra Space’s mission to send tiny storm-monitoring NASA satellites to orbit on Sunday failed after a second-stage booster engine shut down early in space. The failure occurred roughly 10 minutes after…
Argentina grounds Iran-linked Venezuelan cargo plane, lawmakers seek probe
DUBAI/BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) -Argentine authorities have grounded an Iran-linked Venezuelan Boeing 747 cargo plane, a local opposition lawmaker and Iranian state media said on Sunday, in an unfolding drama that is throwing a spotlight on political unde…
Factbox-What’s in, and what’s out, of the U.S. Senate’s gun safety framework
(Reuters) – A bipartisan group of U.S. senators said on Sunday they had reached an agreement on a framework for gun safety legislation, potentially the first significant new U.S. gun law in decades, following a string of recent high-profile mass shooti…