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By Steve Keating TORONTO (Reuters) – All National Hockey League players do no need to be activists and do not have to wear a rainbow jersey or hat to support the LGBTQ+ community,” former Norris trophy-winning defenseman PK Subban said on Friday. NHL Pride Night events have been under an unwelcome spotlight in recent months as some teams and a handful of players have objected to participating for reasons that […]

(Reuters) – European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is in the running to be the new head of NATO, The Sun reported on Friday, citing a diplomatic source. (Reporting by Maria Ponnezhath in Bengaluru; Editing by Chris Reese) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com

By Ross Kerber (Reuters) -Republican attorneys general from 21 U.S. states raised fresh concerns with asset managers over their consideration for environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors in the votes cast at U.S. corporate annual meetings getting under way this spring. The top state legal officers issued their challenge via a letter, provided by the office of Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen on Friday, sent to 53 of the largest […]

By Ivan Lyubysh-Kirdey and Gleb Garanich BUCHA, Ukraine (Reuters) -President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday Ukraine would never forgive Russian troops responsible for atrocities in Bucha, as the town near Kyiv marked the anniversary of its recapture after 33 days of occupation. Ukrainian forces took back control of the small towns of Bucha and Irpin to the northwest of Kyiv in late March last year as Russian invasion forces abandoned […]

By Caroline Valetkevitch NEW YORK (Reuters) – Wall Street rallied more than 1% on Friday and the Nasdaq notched its biggest quarterly percentage gain since June 2020, as signs of cooling inflation bolstered hopes the Federal Reserve might soon end its aggressive interest rate hikes. The S&P 500 closed at its highest level since Feb. 15 and posted a second straight quarter of gains, led by the technology sector’s 21.5% […]

By Brendan O’Brien and Steve Gorman (Reuters) -A fierce tornado blasted through Little Rock, Arkansas, on Friday, ripping away roofs and walls from many buildings, uprooting trees and flipping over vehicles, injuring at least a couple of dozen people. The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences hospital, the state’s only major trauma center, declared a level-1 mass casualty alert after the tornado struck Little Rock on Friday, according to Andrea […]

By Blake Brittain (Reuters) – Apple Inc on Friday convinced a U.S. appeals court to throw out a $502 million verdict for patent licensing company VirnetX Inc in a long-running fight over internet privacy technology. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said the verdict could not stand after the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board canceled the virtual private network (VPN) patents VirnetX accused Apple of infringing. […]

By Jorge Otaola and Rodrigo Campos BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) -The International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved Argentina’s fourth review under its $44 billion loan program on Friday, unlocking the disbursement of $5.4 billion to the indebted country, the lender said in a short statement. The IMF made no mention of Argentina’s request for easing reserve targets that have becoming increasingly difficult to meet amid a historic drought hitting the country’s grains […]

By Dietrich Knauth (Reuters) -A Johnson & Johnson company cannot delay a court order dismissing its bankruptcy, a U.S. court said on Friday, despite the company’s planned Supreme Court appeal to use bankruptcy to resolve tens of thousands of lawsuits over its talc products. J&J sought to use the bankruptcy of its subsidiary company, LTL Management, to halt more than 38,000 lawsuits alleging the company’s Baby Powder and other talc […]