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By Andrew Chung and John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday made it easier to challenge the regulatory power of federal agencies in two important rulings backing Axon Enterprise Inc’s bid to sue the Federal Trade Commission and a Texas accountant’s gripe with the Securities and Exchange Commission. A 9-0 ruling by the justices revived Axon’s lawsuit contesting the constitutionality of the FTC’s structure in a […]

By Alexandra Ulmer INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana (Reuters) – White House Republican hopefuls including Donald Trump descend on Indianapolis for the annual NRA conference on Friday, highlighting the gun lobby’s continued political potency even as the U.S. reels from the latest spate of mass shootings. The conference of the National Rifle Association, the country’s leading gun-rights advocacy group, is taking place at a key moment in the Republican presidential campaign. A number […]

(Reuters) – Tottenham Hotspur must treat every Premier League game like a ‘final’ if they are to secure a top-four finish and qualify for the Champions League, interim manager Cristian Stellini said on Friday. Spurs, who were knocked out of the FA Cup and Champions League last month, have only a top-four league finish to challenge for this season. But the north London side are fifth in the league standings […]

By Nupur Anand, Tatiana Bautzer and Saeed Azhar NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. banking heavyweights reaped windfalls from higher interest payments in the first quarter, brushing off a sector shake-down and taking the opportunity to set aside billions of dollars in case loans turn sour as the economic outlook dims. First-quarter 2023 earnings from JPMorgan Chase & Co, Citigroup Inc and Wells Fargo & Co beat Wall Street expectations on […]

By Humeyra Pamuk, Francesco Guarascio and David Brunnstrom HANOI (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Vietnam on Friday hoping for progress towards upgrading relations with a key trade partner that shares U.S. worries about China’s growing might. For Hanoi, it will be a delicate test: how to show openness to the United States without angering China, a giant neighbor that supplies key inputs for Vietnam’s vital […]

NAIROBI (Reuters) – Fifteen “radicalised” Kenyan Christians were rescued on Friday from a fast which began after they were told they were going to meet their maker, but four died during the rescue mission, police said. All 15 were members of the Good News International Church in the coastal county of Kilifi, police said. “In the process of rescuing the victims, four of them died,” police said in an incident […]

By Riham Alkousaa BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany will pull the plug on its last three nuclear power stations by Saturday, ending a six-decade programme that spawned one of Europe’s strongest protest movements but saw a brief reprieve due to the Ukraine war. The smoking towers of Isar II, Emsland and Neckarwestheim II reactors were to shut forever by midnight on Saturday as Berlin enacts its plan for fully-renewable electricity generation by […]

(Fixes typo in first paragraph) By Joice Alves LONDON (Reuters) – European banks surged on Friday, rising to a one-month high, gaining support from U.S. lenders, which reported better-than-expected results in the first quarter. The STOXX 600 index of European banks gained as much as 3% to reach its highest since mid-March after JPMorgan, Citigroup and Wells Fargo beat estimates. Banks largely outperformed the broader market, with the STOXX 600 […]

BEIJING (Reuters) – China and Brazil agreed on Friday to set up a working group to pursue cooperation on semiconductors as the South American nation strengthens ties with Beijing in areas of sensitive technology. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva met with Chinese leader Xi Jinping and their governments signed 15 agreements or MoUs that include the building of a sixth satellite used to monitor the Amazon, and the […]