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MIAMI (Reuters) – Former U.S. President Donald Trump arrived at a Miami courthouse on Tuesday to face criminal charges that he unlawfully kept national security documents when he left office and lied to officials who sought to recover them. Trump was expected to be fingerprinted and to submit a plea at an arraignment scheduled for 3 p.m. EDT (1900 GMT). The hearing was to be closed to cameras and live […]

By Katie Paul NEW YORK (Reuters) – Meta Platforms said on Tuesday that it would provide researchers with access to components of a new “human-like” artificial intelligence model that it said can analyze and complete unfinished images more accurately than existing models. The model, I-JEPA, uses background knowledge about the world to fill in missing pieces of images, rather than looking only at nearby pixels like other generative AI models, […]

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexico’s president on Tuesday picked veteran U.N. diplomat Alicia Barcena to be the country’s new foreign minister after the incumbent resigned to campaign for the leftist ruling party’s candidacy in next year’s presidential election. A trained biologist, Barcena served for nearly 14 years as executive secretary of the United Nations’ Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), and has been Mexico’s ambassador to Chile since […]

(Refiling to remove errant word from headline) By Jacqueline Thomsen and Jack Queen MIAMI (Reuters) -Former U.S. President Donald Trump arrived at a Miami courthouse on Tuesday to face criminal charges that he unlawfully kept national security documents when he left office and lied to officials who sought to recover them. Trump was expected to be fingerprinted and to submit a plea at an arraignment scheduled for 3 p.m. EDT […]

(Reuters) – United Airlines Holdings Inc is offering its pilots a contract in excess of $8 billion in cumulative increases in pay and benefits over four years, in possibly the richest labor deal by a major American carrier, if ratified by the union. The move comes at a time when pilots in North America are pushing for better pay and working conditions in their talks with company managements over new […]

By Jacqueline Thomsen and Jack Queen MIAMI (Reuters) -Former U.S. President Donald Trump arrived at a Miami courthouse on Tuesday to face criminal charges that he unlawfully kept national security documents when he left office and lied to officials who sought to recover them. Trump was expected to be fingerprinted and to submit a plea at an arraignment scheduled for 3 p.m. EDT (1900 GMT). The hearing was to be […]

By Svea Herbst-Bayliss NEW YORK (Reuters) – Activist investor Sarissa Capital may have cleared a stumbling block in its push for board seats at Alkermes when one of its candidates resigned from the board of a company that has a commercial relationship with the drugmaker. The hedge fund’s founder, Alex Denner, one of three Sarissa candidates running for seats on Alkermes’ 11-member board, said this week that he will give […]

By Daphne Psaledakis, Simon Lewis and Nafisa Eltahir WASHINGTON/CAIRO (Reuters) -Sudan’s warring factions are not taking advantage of talks initiated by the United States and Saudi Arabia meant to yield a permanent ceasefire as they originally agreed, a senior U.S. State Department official said on Tuesday. The United States is consulting with Saudi Arabia and others in the Arab world and Africa about a path forward and hoped to announce […]

By Vitalii Hnidyi NESKUCHNE, Ukraine (Reuters) -Ukraine’s blue and yellow flag flew over a ruined grocery store and Russian soldiers lay dead in the street of the village of Neskuchne, reached by Reuters journalists on Tuesday in the first independent confirmation of Ukraine’s biggest advances for seven months against Russia’s invasion. Russia has not acknowledged any Ukrainian gains, and President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that for now he saw […]