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(Reuters) – Former NFL player J.J. Watt and his wife, former U.S. international soccer player Kealia Watt, announced on Monday that they are investing in the English soccer club Burnley FC. Burnley secured automatic promotion back to the Premier League in early April after only one season in the second tier, finishing first in the Championship. The couple said they look forward to strengthening Burnley’s international presence as well as […]

DUBAI (Reuters) -Kuwait’s parliament was dissolved by royal decree on Monday, state news agency KUNA said, having only been reinstated in March based on a Constitutional Court ruling after a previous dissolution. Kuwait’s Crown Prince Sheikh Meshal al-Ahmad al-Sabah said last month the legislature would be dissolved and that new parliamentary elections would be held in coming months. The Gulf Arab state, an OPEC member, has seen prolonged bickering between […]

By Scott Murdoch and Niket Nishant (Reuters) -Jamie Dimon’s JPMorgan Chase & Co emerged as the winner of a weekend auction of First Republic Bank, in a deal that is meant to draw a line under a recent banking crisis but comes at the cost of making the largest U.S. bank even bigger.  JPMorgan will make a payment of $10.6 billion to the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC) as […]

DUBAI (Reuters) -Kuwait’s parliament was dissolved by royal decree on Monday, state news agency KUNA said, having only been reinstated in March based on a Constitutional Court ruling after a previous dissolution. Kuwait’s Crown Prince Sheikh Meshal al-Ahmad al-Sabah said last month the legislature would be dissolved and that new parliamentary elections would be held in coming months. The Gulf Arab state, an OPEC member, has seen prolonged bickering between […]

By Dawn Chmielewski (Reuters) -An oversight board appointed by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on Monday said it would file a countersuit against Walt Disney Co in state court, according to prepared remarks seen by Reuters. The decision, which further escalates tensions between Disney and the state of Florida, comes in response to a lawsuit Disney filed last week in federal district court against DeSantis and members of the Central Florida […]

TUNIS (Reuters) – A soccer fan wielding a chainsaw was arrested during riots at a CAF Champions League match in Tunis, a source at the Interior Ministry said on Monday. The return leg of the quarter-final between Tunisia’s Esperance and Algeria’s JS Kabylie at the Rades Stadium on Saturday was interrupted by violence, which caused a 40-minute delay to the second half. Esperance fans clashed with security forces and lit […]

By Dawn Chmielewski (Reuters) -An oversight board appointed by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on Monday said it would file a countersuit against Walt Disney Co in state court, according to prepared remarks seen by Reuters. The decision, which further escalates tensions between Disney and the state of Florida, comes in response to a lawsuit Disney filed last week in federal district court against DeSantis and members of the Central Florida […]

By Michael S. Derby (Reuters) – The Federal Reserve is planning new steps to ensure officials and top staff are complying with financial trading and ethics rules put in place last year, it said in a report on Monday. The report, released Monday by the central bank’s in-house watchdog, the Office of the Inspector General, or OIG, argued that more central bank staff should be covered by the rules. More […]

By Khushi Mandowara and Leroy Leo (Reuters) – Almost a third of the nurses in the United States are considering leaving their profession after the COVID-19 pandemic left them overwhelmed and fatigued, according to a survey. The survey of over 18,000 nurses, conducted by AMN Healthcare Services Inc in January, showed on Monday that 30% of the participants are looking to quit their career, up 7 percentage points over 2021, […]