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By Nathan Layne and Rich McKay PALM BEACH, Florida (Reuters) -A subdued former President Donald Trump lashed out on Tuesday at New York prosecutor Alvin Bragg for bringing criminal charges against him and declared himself the victim of election interference without offering evidence. “I never thought anything like this could happen in America,” Trump told supporters gathered at his Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach, Florida. “The only crime that I’ve […]

By Joseph Ax and Daniel Trotta (Reuters) -Wisconsin voters on Tuesday elected liberal Janet Protasiewicz to the state Supreme Court, flipping control to a liberal majority ahead of rulings on an abortion ban and other matters that could play a role in the 2024 presidential election. Protasiewicz defeated conservative candidate Daniel Kelly in what New York University’s Brennan Center for Justice called the most expensive judicial election in U.S. history. […]

(Corrects to remove replicated words in paragraph 8) By Ankur Banerjee SINGAPORE (Reuters) -The U.S. dollar was stuck near two-month lows on Wednesday as weak economic data bolstered views that the Federal Reserve is near the end of its tightening cycle, while the New Zealand dollar jumped after a larger-than expected interest rate hike. New Zealand’s central bank raised interest by 50 basis points (bps) to a more than 14-year […]

TAOYUAN, Taiwan (Reuters) – Foxconn founder Terry Gou said on Wednesday he would strive to be the presidential candidate for Taiwan’s main opposition KMT party in elections due early next year.   (Reporting by Ben Blanchard; Editing by Tom Hogue) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com

(Reuters) – Ukraine’s armed forces said they had repelled 45 Russian attacks over the past 24 hours as fighting raged in and around the city of Bakhmut, while Washington pledged more weapons to help Kyiv prepare for a spring counteroffensive. FINLAND JOINS NATO * Finland formally joined the NATO military alliance in a historic policy shift brought on by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, drawing a threat from Moscow of “counter-measures”. […]

By Lucy Craymer WELLINGTON (Reuters) – New Zealand’s central bank unexpectedly raised its cash rate by 50 basis points to a more than 14-year high of 5.25% on Wednesday, reiterating that inflation was still too high and persistent. Twenty-two of 24 economists in a Reuters poll had forecast the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) would raise rates by just 25 basis points. This is the eleventh straight hike since […]

By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – Fox News said Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Maria Bartiromo and other top on-air personalities will be available to testify as it defends itself against a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit claiming it lied about voter fraud in the 2020 U.S. presidential election. In a letter filed on Tuesday in Delaware Superior Court, Fox said the hosts are among 11 people the cable television network intends […]

By Brendan O’Brien and Dan Whitcomb CHICAGO (Reuters) – Brandon Johnson was elected Chicago mayor on Tuesday, according to the Associated Press, defeating Paul Vallas in a runoff between two Democrats to take over a city grappling with crime, an issue that dominated the race after incumbent Lori Lightfoot was eliminated in February. Johnson, a 47-year-old Cook County Commissioner, becomes the 57th mayor of the third-largest U.S. city. Vallas and […]

By Neil Jerome Morales and Enrico Dela Cruz MANILA (Reuters) – Philippine annual inflation eased for a second consecutive month in March on slower rises in food and transport costs, data showed on Wednesday, supporting the case for the central bank to consider a pause in its monetary tightening cycle. The consumer price index rose 7.6% in March, the statistics agency said, below an 8.0% forecast in a Reuters poll […]