By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. congressional committee probing the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol has sought in hearings this month to build a case that then-President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 electoral defeat …
Wall Street posts solid gains, as defensives, tech shine
By Lewis Krauskopf, Devik Jain and Sruthi Shankar (Reuters) – Wall Street’s main indexes posted solid gains on Thursday, fueled by strong performance from defensive and tech shares that outweighed declines for economically sensitive groups as worries p…
U.S. Supreme Court lets Republicans defend North Carolina voter-ID law
By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that Republican lawmakers in North Carolina can intervene in a lawsuit challenging a voter-ID law that they believed the state’s Democratic attorney general was unlikely to defend stro…
U.S. to cancel $6 billion in student loans for 200,000 defrauded borrowers
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States will cancel $6 billion in student loans for 200,000 borrowers who claimed they were defrauded by their colleges, the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden said. A settlement agreement betwe…
Biden administration proposes Title IX protections for transgender students
(Reuters) – The Biden administration on Thursday proposed new regulations to expand Title IX sex discrimination protections for transgender students as part of a broader effort to replace Trump-era rules it said had weakened safeguards for sexual haras…
U.S. Congress Jan. 6 panel shines light on Trump pressuring Justice Dept
By Richard Cowan, Moira Warburton and Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. congressional committee investigating Donald Trump’s role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol opened a hearing on Thursday focusing on the pressure he put on Jus…
Germany triggers gas alarm stage, accuses Russia of ‘economic attack’
By Holger Hansen and Vera Eckert BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany triggered the “alarm stage” of its emergency gas plan on Thursday in response to falling Russian supplies but stopped short of allowing utilities to pass on soaring energy costs to customers i…
Ukraine becomes EU membership candidate as battle in east enters ‘fearsome climax’
By Pavel Polityuk and Vitalii Hnidyi KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine became a candidate to join the European Union on Thursday, a bold geopolitical step triggered by Russia’s invasion that Kyiv and Brussels hailed as an “historic moment”. Starting on the long…
U.S. lawmakers to unveil bill barring U.S. data flows to high-risk countries
By Alexandra Alper and David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A bipartisan group of U.S. senators plans to introduce legislation on Thursday that would give the Biden administration the power to block exports of U.S. personal data to countries like Ch…
U.S. Supreme Court expands gun rights, strikes down New York law
By Andrew Chung and Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday declared for the first time that the U.S. Constitution protects an individual’s right to carry a handgun in public for self-defense, handing a landmark victory…