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May 5 (Reuters) – Westpac Banking Corp reported lower-than-expected first-half profit on Tuesday and warned that Middle East conflict was pressuring customers through higher energy prices. Australia’s second-largest mortgage lender reported a first-half net profit attributable of A$3.41 billion ($2.44 billion), missing the Visible Alpha consensus of A$3.47 billion, hurt by higher credit impairment charges and weaker Treasury income. The bank recorded a credit impairment charge of A$443 million, up […]

By Rajesh Kumar Singh CHICAGO, May 4 (Reuters) – The head of American Airlines’ pilots union told members that United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby’s merger idea showed the kind of “bold vision” the carrier needs, even as the union stopped short of endorsing a tie-up between the two airlines. In an email to pilots on Monday, seen by Reuters, Allied Pilots Association President Nick Silva said Kirby’s vision could be […]

By Jonathan Stempel, Douglas Gillison and Chris Prentice WASHINGTON/NEW YORK, May 4 (Reuters) – Elon Musk settled the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s civil lawsuit accusing the world’s richest person of waiting too long in 2022 to disclose his initial purchases of Twitter, now known as X. A trust in Musk’s name will pay a $1.5 million civil fine, under the settlement disclosed on Monday in the Washington, D.C., federal court. Musk […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Union board members representing television and movie actors are set this week to review a tentative contract deal with studios and streaming services. While an agreement was announced Saturday, it still must be approved by the board of the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, then ratified by a member vote. If both those things happen — as they’re expected to — the […]

JERUSALEM (AP) — Lag BaOmer is a festive day in the Jewish calendar that brings communities together in celebration and shared tradition. It falls on the 33rd day of a 49-day period between Passover and Shavuot, and marks a pause during a period of mourning. Across Israel, the holiday is most visible through bonfires that light up the night, as families and friends gather outdoors to sing, share food, and […]

EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Alberta separatists said Monday they have formally submitted almost 302,000 signatures to try to trigger a referendum on the province leaving Canada. The group needed 178,000 signatures to force the province to consider such a vote. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has said if the petition is verified, there will be a referendum. Smith has said she personally does not support the oil-rich province leaving Canada. Mitch […]

A partisan redistricting battle among states has accelerated ahead of the November midterm elections following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that weakened the federal Voting Rights Act and opened the way for states to try to eliminate voting districts drawn for racial minorities. Legislative voting districts typically are redrawn based on census data after the start of each decade. But an unusual spate of mid-decade redistricting broke out after President […]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A man who was shot multiple times during an arrest by immigration officers in central California pleaded not guilty on Monday to federal charges that he rammed his vehicle into two agents, prosecutors said. A federal grand jury on Friday indicted Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez, who has dual citizenship in El Salvador and Mexico, on two counts of assaulting a federal officer with a deadly weapon […]

NEW YORK (AP) — The expansion of government surveillance efforts in China — and the role that U.S. tech firms played in it — was the foundation of investigative stories from The Associated Press that won a Pulitzer Prize Monday for international reporting. The Pulitzer board recognized AP journalists Dake Kang, Garance Burke, Byron Tau and Aniruddha Ghosal, along with contributor and independent journalist Yael Grauer, for what it called […]