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By Sharon Bernstein (Reuters) – Abortion rights supporters expressed relief on Friday after the U.S. Supreme Court preserved access to a widely used abortion pill but warned of a long fight ahead as a legal challenge to the medication continues. The move by the court to halt new restrictions on the drug set by lower courts was welcome news less than a year after its conservative majority upended U.S. abortion […]

By Karen Freifeld (Reuters) – Michael Cohen on Monday asked a U.S. appeals court to revive his lawsuit against Donald Trump and other government officials, seeking damages for sending him back to prison in retaliation for publishing a tell-all memoir criticizing the former U.S. president. Lawyers for Cohen said in a filing with the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan that the judiciary has a responsibility to remediate […]

By Karen Freifeld (Reuters) – Michael Cohen on Monday asked a U.S. appeals court to revive his lawsuit against Donald Trump and other government officials, seeking damages for sending him back to prison in retaliation for publishing a tell-all memoir criticizing the former U.S. president. Lawyers for Cohen said in a filing with the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan that the judiciary has a responsibility to remediate […]

By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Consumer Organisation (BEUC) has joined the chorus of concern about ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence chatbots, calling on EU consumer protection agencies to investigate the technology and the potential harm to individuals. The growing popularity of Microsoft-backed Open AI’s ChatGPT, which can mimic humans and create text and images based on prompts, has spurred others such as Alphabet’s Google, Amazon’s cloud […]

By Jibran Ahmad PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) -Two explosions in a counter-terrorism ammunition depot in northwest Pakistan killed at least 13 people and wounded over 50 on Monday, police said. Provincial police chief Akhtar Hayat said the explosions rocked the counter-terrorism office in northwestern Swat valley, which was previously long controlled by Islamist militants before they were flushed out in a military operation in 2009. His spokesman said in a statement […]

By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden will veto congressional efforts to overturn his solar tariff waiver for four Southeast Asian nations for two years, the White House said on Monday. In June, Biden waived tariffs on solar panels from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam in an effort to create a “bridge” while U.S. manufacturing ramps up enough to supply the domestic projects needed to achieve climate […]

By Rich McKay (Reuters) – The former Minneapolis-area police officer convicted of killing Daunte Wright was released from prison on Monday after serving part of her sentence for the fatal shooting that took place while another white officer was on trial for George Floyd’s murder in a nearby courtroom. Kimberly Potter, now 50, was found guilty of first- and second-degree manslaughter in the 2021 shooting of Wright, a 20-year-old Black […]

By Sinéad Carew, Sruthi Shankar and Ankika Biswas (Reuters) – The Nasdaq underperformed the S&P 500 and the Dow on Monday, pressured by high-profile megacaps as investors awaited results from companies including Microsoft while Tesla shares fell on concerns about its spending plans. Tesla Inc slid 2% after the automaker raised its 2023 capital expenditure forecast to ramp up output, weighing down consumer discretionary stocks. It was the second biggest […]

By Tatiana Bautzer NEW YORK (Reuters) – Climate protesters spray painted graffiti on Citigroup Inc and Bank of America Corp. offices in New York’s Bryant Park on Monday, accusing the banks of being “climate criminals” a day before the lenders are scheduled to hold their annual shareholder meetings. “The largest banks in the world invest hundreds of billions of dollars in new fossil fuel infrastructure,” said Jim Gordon, one of […]