A voting machine at the Beverly Hills City Hall voting center. REUTERS/Daniel Cole/File Photo |
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President Donald Trump’s election-security czar last year sought to ban voting machines used in more than half of US states by asking whether the Commerce Department could declare their components national-security risks.
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US Senate Republicans abandoned plans to vote on funding for immigration enforcement in a revolt against Trump's $1.8 billion fund for victims of government "weaponization," including those convicted of violent crimes during the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021.
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Bowing to pressure from within its ranks, the Democratic National Committee released its long‑withheld "autopsy" of Kamala Harris’ loss to Trump in the 2024 presidential race - only to quickly disavow it. Joseph Ax tells the Reuters World News podcast why that’s frustrated the party.
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Iran's leaders are splashing propaganda posters across Tehran boasting of national unity and victory over a global superpower, just months after crushing protests with mass killings and as war worsens economic pain for their people.
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Trump surprised NATO allies by pledging to send an additional 5,000 troops to Poland, only hours before Secretary of State Marco Rubio was to meet alliance ministers in Sweden.
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Turkey's political opposition dug in to resist an unprecedented court ruling that ousted its leader and annulled its congress, inflaming a political crisis that critics say aims to further prolong President Tayyip Erdogan's 23-year rule.
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Hundreds of people protested outside Ireland's parliament to express outrage at the death of a Congolese-born man after he was restrained outside a Dublin department store in an incident some compared to the 2020 killing of George Floyd.
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Protesters set fire to tents for Ebola patients after Congolese authorities refused to give them the dead body of a victim they wanted to bury themselves, a beloved local footballer, Reuters witnesses said.
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SpaceX Starship V3 sits at the launch pad in Texas. REUTERS/Gabriel V. Cardenas |
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SpaceX scrubbed the launch of its 12th Starship rocket from Texas and said it will attempt the high-stakes test flight again today, as Elon Musk's space company nears a record-breaking public listing.
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Kevin Warsh, whose broad criticism of current Federal Reserve officials, playbook for rate cuts and ties to Trump elevated him past other contenders to lead the central bank, will be sworn in as Fed leader today.
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Samsung Electronics workers in South Korea began voting on a pay deal that ensures huge bonuses for its memory chip workers, but other employees who didn't fare as well said they plan to oppose it.
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A strong rally in tech stocks has largely gone under the radar against a darkening backdrop for European equity markets. Two baskets of AI-related shares account for more than two-thirds of the positive performance in stocks over the past month and a half.
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China launched a crackdown on cross-border activities that illegally channel domestic money into overseas securities, futures and fund products.
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Italy's financial police said they had busted a sophisticated streaming piracy network that caused roughly $348 million in damages to rights holders such as Sky, DAZN, Netflix, Disney+ and Spotify.
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A host of central banks brace for their next moves and inflation data piles the pressure on US and Japanese policymakers.
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Results from Salesforce, Best Buy and Costco could shed more light on the AI trade and the health of consumer spending, as a robust first-quarter earnings season that has boosted US stocks winds down.
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Here's your heads-up on the coming week in financial markets.
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The upheaval AI could wreak on jobs across finance is in focus after Standard Chartered said it would eliminate almost 8,000 jobs by replacing what its CEO Bill Winters called "lower-value human capital" with technology.
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Pope Leo will address the rise of AI in his first in-depth text outlining his concerns. The document, known as an encyclical, is likely to decry the use of AI in warfare and address how the technology is challenging workers' rights.
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India's job engine strains as Iran war hits trade |
A worker at a leather factory in Kanpur, India. REUTERS/Bhawika Chhabra |
The war in the Middle East is squeezing two pillars of Indian employment, forcing Gulf-based workers home and crushing demand for the country's manufactured exports, from leather goods to glassware.
For decades, work in the Middle East and global demand for labor-intensive manufacturing in sectors such as footwear and garments gave a generation of Indians stable, and in some cases lucrative, incomes.
Now, the foreign conflict has dealt a double blow to the economy, heightening the risk of social unrest as unemployment grows. |
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