U.S mortgage rates soar to highest in more than 23 years ( www.reuters.com )
Microsoft in talks to sign on Amazon as customer in $1 bln cloud tools deal ( www.reuters.com )
Oct 17 (Reuters) - Microsoft (MSFT.O) is preparing to bring Amazon.com (AMZN.O) as a customer for its 365 cloud productivity tools in a deal worth over $1 billion, news site Insider reported on Tuesday, citing an internal document and a person familiar with the matter....
US Nobel-winning poet Louise Gluck dies at 80 ( www.reuters.com )
Deadly humid heat could hit billions, spread as far as US Midwest, study says ( www.reuters.com )
US prisons rife with human rights abuses, especially against Black people, UN says ( www.reuters.com )
Practices that are routine in U.S. prisons, like shackling women during childbirth and unpaid forced labor, are an “affront to human dignity,” and represent the “worst version of a racist criminal legal system” that perpetuates slavery to the present day, according to the U.N. report.
[News] Republicans reject own funding bill, US government shutdown imminent ( www.reuters.com )
WASHINGTON, Sept 29 (Reuters) - Hardline Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday rejected a bill proposed by their leader to temporarily fund the government, making it all but certain that federal agencies will partially shut down beginning on Sunday....
US House passes bipartisan bill to avoid government shutdown ( www.reuters.com )
Detroit Three automakers enter final hours to avoid wider UAW strike ( www.reuters.com )
The Detroit Three automakers and the union representing the companies' U.S. hourly workers on Friday entered the final hours to reach new labor agreements before the current coordinated strike expands to include more plants.
[News] Trump urges government shutdown in unlikely bid to 'defund' his criminal prosecutions ( www.reuters.com )
Sept 21 (Reuters) - Former President Donald Trump has urged fellow Republicans in Congress to shut down the government to thwart the federal prosecutions against him, although any funding lapse was unlikely to stop the cases from being pursued....
Toyota says plant shutdown last week due to Zero disk space ( www.reuters.com )
I’m sending this to my boss to remind him why monitoring disk space is vital.
Georgia grand jury recommended charging Lindsey Graham, other Trump allies ( www.reuters.com )
A Georgia grand jury recommended criminal charges against Republican U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham and other allies of Donald Trump as part of its investigation into efforts to overturn Trump’s 2020 presidential defeat, said a report released on Friday....
Ex-Proud Boys leader sentenced to 22 years for role in US Capitol attack ( www.reuters.com )
Exclusive: US to send depleted-uranium munitions to Ukraine ( www.reuters.com )
Top US Senate Democrat Schumer warns against Republican 'brinkmanship' on spending ( www.reuters.com )
“We cannot afford the brinkmanship or hostage-taking we saw from House Republicans earlier this year when they pushed our country to the brink of default to appease the most extreme members of their party,” Schumer said in an open letter to colleagues on Friday....
[News] US Supreme Court's Thomas flew on GOP donor's jet, cites security risks ( www.reuters.com )
WASHINGTON, Aug 31 (Reuters) - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas accepted flights by private jet last year and cited security concerns around the court's controversial abortion decision to justify some of the private travel, according to a disclosure form released on Thursday....
Biden plan would guarantee overtime pay for 3.6 million workers ( www.reuters.com )
The administration of U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday moved to extend mandatory overtime pay to 3.6 million salaried workers, going even further than an Obama-era rule that was struck down in court....
Workers stage Japan's first strike in decades over department store sale ( www.reuters.com )
Tropical Storm Idalia expected to hit Florida as hurricane ( www.reuters.com )
In battleground Arizona, key independent voters decry Trump, support Georgia election indictment ( www.reuters.com )
As Trump was arrested yet again on Thursday following his fourth indictment this year - and the second related to his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden - his support among Republican voters has been surging....
US Central states, Texas in danger of power shortages in heat wave ( www.reuters.com )
[News] Giuliani heads to Georgia as others surrender in Trump election subversion case ( www.reuters.com )
ATLANTA, Aug 23 (Reuters) - Rudy Giuliani, who served as Donald Trump's personal lawyer, said he was traveling to Georgia on Wednesday to surrender over state criminal charges that he sought to overturn the former U.S. president's 2020 election loss....
US judge blocks Georgia ban on treatment for transgender youth ( www.reuters.com )
A U.S. judge has blocked the state of Georgia from enforcing a new Republican-backed law that bars doctors from providing hormone replacement therapy to treat gender dysphoria in transgender children under age 18....
Trump's lawyers propose 2026 trial date in federal election case ( www.reuters.com )
Russia fines Reddit for first time over 'banned content,' RIA says ( www.reuters.com )
Russia on Tuesday fined social media site Reddit for the first time for not deleting "banned content" that it said contained "fake" information about Russia's military campaign in Ukraine, RIA reported on Tuesday, citing a Moscow court....