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By Karen Freifeld (Reuters) – Former President Donald Trump is due back in New York to be questioned Thursday in a $250 million civil fraud lawsuit against him by the state’s attorney general, according to a person familiar with the matter.    But the deposition will take place behind closed doors and is unlikely to draw the kind of attention that his surrender on separate criminal charges did last week. […]

By Helen Coster (Reuters) – Jury selection in Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation lawsuit against Fox Corp. is expected to begin on Thursday, as the court seeks 12 Delaware residents from a heavily-Democratic county to decide whether Fox News knowingly aired false claims about vote rigging in the 2020 U.S. presidential election. Dominion says that Fox destroyed its business by knowingly airing debunked claims that its ballot counting machines were used […]

By Blandine Henault and Yann Tessier PARIS (Reuters) -France faced a new day of street protests on Thursday over President Emmanuel Macron’s plans to make people work longer for their pension, as striking workers disrupted garbage collection in Paris and blocked river traffic on part of the Rhine river. Trade unions urged a show of force on the streets a day before the Constitutional Council’s ruling on the legality of […]

By Helen Coster (Reuters) – Jury selection in Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation lawsuit against Fox Corp. is expected to begin on Thursday, as the court seeks 12 Delaware residents from a heavily-Democratic county to decide whether Fox News knowingly aired false claims about vote rigging in the 2020 U.S. presidential election. Dominion says that Fox destroyed its business by knowingly airing debunked claims that its ballot counting machines were used […]

A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan Relief at the pace of U.S. disinflation hasn’t stopped markets betting on one final Federal Reserve rate hike next month, but an ebbing dollar already assumes it will be the last. The dollar’s DXY index fell to its lowest in more than two months on Thursday, with European currencies leading the way. Spurred partly by geopolitical […]

By Diane Bartz WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Google will likely argue Thursday that the U.S. Justice Department’s allegations that it broke antitrust law to build and maintain its dominance of search are flawed and that its lawsuit should be thrown out, according to court filings. The government, which filed its lawsuit in the waning days of the Trump administration, will likely defend its complaint, which said that Alphabet’s Google acts illegally […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Half of U.S. Republicans think a federal court was motivated by politics when it ordered the suspension of government approval for a widely used abortion pill, a Reuters/Ipsos poll completed on Wednesday found. Fifty-one percent of self-identified Republicans in the poll said they agreed that the ruling last week – which would essentially make sales of the abortion pill mifepristone illegal – was politically motivated. Only 28% […]

By Rowena Edwards LONDON (Reuters) -Oil prices were stable on Thursday as the market weighed the prospect of tight supply against possible recession in the United States, the world’s largest oil consumer. Brent crude fell 7 cents, or 0.08%, to $87.26 a barrel by 0935 GMT. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) was unchanged at $83.26. Both benchmarks had risen 2% on Wednesday to their highest in more than a month […]

BEIJING (Reuters) – China will ban vessels from an area near Taiwan on Sunday because of the possibility of falling rocket debris, its maritime safety agency said on Thursday, as Japan sought details from Beijing on a reported no-fly zone in the same location. China has not commented on the no-fly zone but South Korea, which was also briefed on the plans, said it was due to a falling object […]