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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a broad reading of the authority of the Securities and Exchange Commission to recoup ill-gotten gains from people who engage in securities fraud. The justices ruled unanimously against Ongkaruck Sripetch, who was sentenced to 21 months in prison after pleading guilty to selling unregistered securities as part of a scheme involving high-risk penny stocks. The Los Angeles resident had challenged a […]

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Royal Navy said Wednesday that three of its members died in a helicopter crash earlier in southwest England during a training exercise. The helicopter went down in a field in the county of Devon in England just before 4 a.m. The navy’s head General Gwyn Jenkins, said in a statement that he was “deeply saddened to share the news that three crewmembers onboard a Royal Navy […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate is beginning a long series of votes Thursday on legislation to fund President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement agencies, moving toward passage of a three-year fix as Democrats have blocked the money for months in protest. The roughly $70 billion bill to fund U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Border Patrol would end the blockade by Democrats who demanded policy changes after the fatal shootings […]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A man carrying what authorities described as an explosive device powerful enough to damage a plane, as well as a torch lighter, knife, zip ties and other items, was arrested after trying to pass through a Sacramento International Airport security checkpoint over the weekend, federal prosecutors said. The 49-year-old from Sacramento was wearing a scarf covering his face and latex gloves, U.S. Attorney Eric Grant said […]

ZURICH, June 4 (Reuters) – The chairman of Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche hit out at U.S. tariff policies on Thursday, likening them to “blackmail”, and said protectionism by the United States and China was the firm’s biggest geopolitical concern. Severin Schwan was asked about the agreement his firm struck with the Trump administration late last year to slash prices for medicines in the United States after U.S. officials had threatened […]

By Johan Ahlander STOCKHOLM, June 4 (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in May Ukraine would buy 20 of Saab’s Gripen E fighter jets and Sweden will gift another 16 of an older model, to help Ukraine in the war against Russia. The two countries signed a letter of intent last year paving the way for Sweden to sell up to 150 jets and Ukraine has allocated €2.5 billion […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans filing for jobless aid hit their highest level in four months last week, but layoffs remain historically low despite ongoing economic uncertainty brought on by the war in Iran. U.S. applications for unemployment benefits for the week ending May 30 increased by 13,000 to 225,000, the Labor Department reported Thursday. That’s the most since early February, before the U.S. and Israel launched attacks […]

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — Israel and Lebanon have agreed to renew their shaky ceasefire, with an aim to continue talks later this month for a comprehensive peace deal. The U.S.-brokered agreement, announced in a joint statement by the U.S., Israel and Lebanon Wednesday, comes after Israeli forces made their deepest incursion into Lebanon in more than a quarter century. But it includes several contentious points, including the creation of “pilot” […]

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — A small plane crashed in Croatia on Thursday, killing at least four people, police said. The plane crashed near Medulin, a town on the Istria peninsula, a statement said. The official HINA news agency reported that it was a German plane that took off from Austria. Photos from the scene showed the plane wreckage in a field and police and firefighters at the scene. Local pilot […]