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May 29 (Reuters) – Global investors returned to equity funds in the week to May 27 after a week of outflows, as a rally in AI-linked stocks revived demand, though caution over U.S.-Iran peace negotiations kept buying in check. Investors bought a net $457.57 million in global equity funds, compared with a net outflow of $6.56 billion the previous week, LSEG Lipper data showed. MSCI’s World Index hit a record […]

WASHINGTON, May 29 (Reuters) – The U.S. trade deficit in goods contracted in April as a surge in exports more than offset rising imports, a trend that if sustained could see trade contributing to economic growth in the second quarter. The goods trade gap narrowed 3.4% to $82.4 billion last month, the Commerce Department’s Census Bureau said on Friday. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast the goods trade deficit at […]

(SRN NEWS)-The nation’s largest abortion business has launched a campaign with the slogan “Just In Case”, urging women to lay in a supply if abortifacients on the off chance that they won’t be able to get them easily in their state.  Pro-life critics point out that the pills cost several hundred dollars, depending on where in the country you buy them, and the stock-up campaign is sure to put a […]

(SRN NEWS)-The pontiff caused a stir around the world this month with his encyclical on artificial intelligence, in which he warns about its dangers to humanity.  But an examination of the document’s text indicates that AI wrote at least some of it.  Posting on substack, researcher Lynch Zhang says he put Pope Leo’s text through an AI detector and it concluded that some parts were 100% generated by AI, though […]

(SRN NEWS)-According to the latest poll from the Pew Research Center, abortion is the topic that most often comes up in a sermon these days — 35% of regular churchgoers say they have heard a message about it in the last few months.  Israel is the second most common political or social issue to be addressed from the pulpit — 34% have heard about that.  Next comes homosexuality, immigration and […]

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenyan police arrested eight female students on suspicion of arson, authorities said Friday, after a fire destroyed a dormitory at a boarding school, killing 16 children and injuring dozens of others. The motive remained under investigation. The girls were arrested for planning and carrying out a suspected arson attack at Utumishi Girls School in central Kenya, according to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations, or DCI, a […]

BRUSSELS (AP) — Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar will meet Friday for the first time since taking office with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in Brussels in a bid to unlock billions of euros frozen over the democratic backsliding of his predecessor. Partly by campaigning on forging stronger ties with the European Union, Magyar’s earthquake success in the April election ended the 16-year rule of Viktor Orbán, who […]

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Philippine anti-graft court ordered the arrest of a prominent senator on Friday over allegations he pocketed a kickback of millions of dollars in a flood-control project, in the latest crisis to entangle the Senate. Sen. Jinggoy Estrada surrendered and posted bail before the Sandiganbayan court, allowing him to remain free while the case proceeds. The court barred Estrada from leaving the country while facing the […]

LAKE OZARK, Mo. (AP) — An Associated Press investigation finds that private, for-profit residential treatment centers that care for adopted kids at exceptionally high rates are often funded by taxpayer dollars, but are subject to little oversight and few consequences after allegations of abuse and neglect. The investigation looks deeply at a facility in rural Missouri called Calo Programs, or Change Academy at Lake of the Ozarks, which costs as […]