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By Timothy Aeppel CHICAGO (Reuters) – For Matthew Prange, it’s easy to see why the inflation surge of the last two years has proven so difficult for the Federal Reserve to tame. “When prices go up, it tends to stick,” said Prange, who oversees $3 billion worth of purchases of electronic parts, plastics, and metal as the top supply chain manager at Milwaukee Tool, a venerable Wisconsin toolmaker owned by […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A group of U.S. Senate Democrats including Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren urged President Joe Biden in a letter on Thursday to prepare to invoke the Constitution’s 14th Amendment to avoid a debt default if negotiations fail. (Reporting by Jasper Ward and Paul Grant; Editing by Doina Chiacu) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com

ROME (Reuters) – U.S. rock legend Bruce Springsteen came under criticism in Italy for going ahead with a concert in Ferrara on Thursday evening after the northern Emilia-Romagna region was battered by floods that left at least nine people dead. Fans of “The Boss” took to social networks to urge him and its staff to reconsider in a sign of respect for the eleven dead and the thousands evacuated from […]

(Reuters) – Google will pay Washington state $39.9 million to resolve a lawsuit accusing the company of misleading consumers about its location tracking practices, state Attorney General Bob Ferguson said on Thursday. The settlement also requires Google, a unit of Alphabet Inc, to implement reforms that increase transparency about its location tracking settings. (Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A group of U.S. Senate Democrats including Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren urged President Joe Biden in a letter on Thursday to prepare to invoke the Constitution’s 14th Amendment to avoid a debt default if negotiations fail. (Reporting by Jasper Ward and Paul Grant; Editing by Doina Chiacu) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com

(Reuters) -Holder Rafa Nadal will miss the French Open after failing to regain full fitness from a hip injury suffered at the Australian Open in January, and the 14-times Roland Garros winner added he expects to retire following the 2024 season. Nadal, who has dominated the claycourt season for close to two decades, has competed at Roland Garros every year since claiming the first of his 22 majors in Paris […]

By Ivan Lyubysh-Kirdey NEAR BAKHMUT, Ukraine (Reuters) -The Ukrainian military and Russia’s Wagner private army both reported further Russian retreats around the city of Bakhmut on Thursday, as Kyiv pressed on with its biggest advance for six months ahead of a planned counteroffensive. Ukrainian troops near the front line said Russia was bombarding access roads to slow the Ukrainian assault, which has shifted momentum after months of slow Russian gains […]

By Rami Amichay JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Tens of thousands of Israeli nationalists marched through the Muslim quarter of Jerusalem’s walled Old City on Thursday in an annual event that has drawn condemnation from the Palestinians and stirred fears of renewed violence. The parade is the main celebration on Jerusalem Day, when Israel marks its capture of Jerusalem in the 1967 Middle East war. The event has increasingly become a show of […]

(Reuters) – Slovakia’s parliament is expected to vote soon on a legal change that would make it impossible for transgender people to change their gender on official documents, removing legal recognition that has been in place for over half a century. The proposal, which sailed through a first reading in March, would allow change in gender on documents only on the basis of a genetic test showing it had been […]