By Farah Master, Albee Zhang and Casey Hall HONG KONG (Reuters) – Seeing Chinese authorities exercise extraordinary powers during a stringent COVID-19 lockdown in Shanghai earlier this year altered Claire Jiang’s life plans: she no longer wants to have…
Cold and hungry: Food inflation bites Canada’s north
By Rod Nickel IQALUIT, Nunavut (Reuters) – In Canada’s remote north, residents have long paid dearly for food, and rising prices have worsened an already dire situation, exposing the vulnerability of one of the world’s biggest exporters of grains and m…
Alex Jones lawyer could face legal consequences for phone records release — experts
(In Aug 6 story, corrects charge against Carmen Maria Montiel to interference with a flight crew attendant, paragraph 12) By Jacqueline Thomsen (Reuters) – The lawyer defending conspiracy theorist Alex Jones in a Texas trial drew his own national headl…
U.S. SEC proposes new rules for clearing houses
By Katanga Johnson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Monday proposed new rules aimed at preventing conflicts of interest in management and governance of clearing houses. Clearing houses provide essential plumbin…
DeSantis to campaign for Trump-endorsed candidates in key swing states
By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, widely seen as a potential leading Republican presidential contender, will campaign this month for party candidates endorsed by former President Donald Trump in swing states which wi…
U.S. tax bill may drag on earnings, cause buyback rush; gives some sectors a boost
NEW YORK (Reuters) -The climate, healthcare and tax bill passed by the U.S. Senate over the weekend could shave corporate earnings slightly and make companies pull forward their share repurchase plans, while giving a boost to some sectors like electric…
Biden tours flood damage in eastern Kentucky
By Nandita Bose LEXINGTON, Ky (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday surveyed the damaged houses, uprooted trees and mud-filled roads left by severe flooding in eastern Kentucky and linked the devastation to climate change. Extreme hot weather …
Father, son who murdered Ahmaud Arbery get life sentences for U.S. hate crime
By Rich McKay BRUNSWICK, Ga. (Reuters) -A judge sentenced white father and son Gregory and Travis McMichael to life in prison on Monday for a federal hate crime in the 2020 murder of Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man shot after jogging in a suburban Georgia n…
BioNTech expects Omicron-adapted vaccine deliveries as soon as October
BERLIN (Reuters) -BioNTech expects to begin deliveries of two Omicron-adapted vaccines as soon as October, which will help spur demand in the fourth quarter, the German biotech firm said on Monday as it reaffirmed its vaccine-revenue forecast for the y…
Pulitzer Prize-winning author David McCullough dies at 89
By Brendan O’Brien (Reuters) – David McCullough, best-selling author and renowned historian who won Pulitzer Prizes for his biographies of presidents John Adams and Harry Truman, has died at the age of 89, his publisher said on Monday. McCullough died …