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By Mike Scarcella WASHINGTON, June 5 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration will ask an appeals court on Friday to allow construction of a $400 million ballroom on the site of the White House’s demolished East Wing, pitting Trump against preservationists in a case testing the limits of presidential authority. The East Wing, part of the White House complex in Washington, traditionally housed the offices of the first lady and […]

By John Kruzel WASHINGTON, June 5 (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court in a pair of rulings backing the power of federal agencies has reaffirmed limits it previously imposed on government regulators but rejected bids by challengers to push those constraints into new territory. The court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, issued decisions on Thursday in two cases that went in favor of the Federal Communications Commission and Securities […]

By Doyinsola Oladipo NEW YORK, June 5 (Reuters) – In April, Travis Arcamone was named flight attendant of the year at Spirit Airlines’ Orlando, Florida, base. A month later, he was out of a job, after the company failed to find a way out of a second bankruptcy and collapsed in early May. Spirit’s demise has left thousands of employees scrambling for work in an industry where getting rehired can […]

June 5 (Reuters) – Lululemon Athletica shares dropped 12% in premarket trade on Friday after bleak quarterly and annual profit outlooks deepened concerns over the yoga apparel maker’s turnaround amid slowing U.S. demand, competition and tariff costs. The stock is on track to lose more than $1.7 billion from its market value of $14.44 billion if losses hold. The weak forecasts intensified pressure on the stock, which has lost nearly […]

BUNIA, Congo (AP) — The rare Bundibugyo type of Ebola that Congo is battling took locals by surprise after weeks of spreading unnoticed. Hundreds of cases were suspected when the outbreak was declared in May, but many dismissed the news as a “Western conspiracy.” Congolese authorities announced the new Ebola outbreak on May 15. As of Wednesday, at least 62 people had died from 363 confirmed cases. Yet the outbreak […]

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A woman accused of enslaving a Yazidi teenager in Syria would agree to wear an electronic monitoring ankle bracelet and undergo religious counseling if she were freed on bail, her lawyer told a court Friday. Zeinab Ahmad, 31, continued an application for bail in the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on two slavery charges. Her application was heard on Thursday and Friday. It will continue on June 15 […]

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, June 5 (Reuters) – After five decades of trying, astronomers have finally discovered the wind emanating from the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, though it turns out it is more of a gentle breeze than a hurricane. Using data from the Chile-based ALMA telescope and NASA’s orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory, the researchers viewed the cosmic neighborhood around the black hole […]

June 5 (Reuters) – New Zealand will directly raise China’s “entirely inappropriate” ban on four lawmakers who visited Taiwan with Beijing, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said on Friday. Three backbenchers from New Zealand’s centre-right coalition, Laura McClure, David Wilson and Maureen Pugh, along with Duncan Webb from the Labour party, visited Taipei last month for five days. The Chinese embassy informed lawmakers the group had been banned from entering China, […]

By Alexander Cornwell, Rami Ayyub and Steve Holland JERUSALEM/WASHINGTON, June 5 (Reuters) – Benjamin Netanyahu has long portrayed himself to the Israeli public as being uniquely adept in dealing with Donald Trump, capable of winning and sustaining the U.S. president’s backing. But an acrimonious phone call this week where the president called the prime minister “fucking crazy”, first leaked to the media and later publicly confirmed by Trump himself, laid […]