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BELGRADE (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of Serbians joined an anti-government protest in Belgrade on Friday for the sixth time since May 3, blaming a culture of violence for the deaths of 18 people in two mass shootings and calling on the interior minister to resign. Chanting “(Serbian President Aleksandar) Vucic out!” and holding a big banner reading “Students against violence,” the protesters gathered in front of the parliament and […]

PARIS (Reuters) -France’s finance ministry is working on plans to close a tax loophole benefiting short-term furnished rentals such as Airbnb, Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Friday. Many big French cities are facing housing shortages and renting flats to tourists on platforms such as Airbnb is often blamed for reducing the supply of housing. A trio of cross-party lawmakers last month called for rules regulating such rentals to […]

By Sarah N. Lynch and Jonathan Stempel WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. prosecutors unsealed a 37-count indictment against Donald Trump on Friday, accusing the former president of risking some of the country’s most sensitive security secrets after leaving the White House in 2021. Trump mishandled classified documents that included information about the secretive U.S. nuclear program and potential domestic vulnerabilities in the event of an attack, the federal indictment said. Trump also […]

(Reuters) – Here is a timeline of events that led to charges against former U.S. President Donald Trump and others over government records, some marked as highly sensitive, stored at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida after he left the White House in January 2021: Feb. 9, 2022: The National Archives and Records Administration asks the U.S. Justice Department to investigate Trump’s handling of government records, after Trump returned boxes of […]

By Jarrett Renshaw (Reuters) – The White House on Friday said electric-vehicle charging stations using Tesla standard plugs would be eligible for billions of dollars in federal subsidies as long as they included the U.S. charging standard connection, CCS, as well. The statement follows separate announcements by U.S. automakers Ford Motor and General Motors that they were adopting the Tesla model of charging, known as the North American Charging Standard […]

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – Indicted U.S. Representative George Santos on Friday appealed a ruling requiring that the identities of two people who guaranteed his $500,000 bail be disclosed, saying that releasing their names could threaten their safety. In a letter to U.S. District Judge Joanna Seybert, Santos’ lawyer Joseph Murray said the New York congressman and his staff have been subjected to a “media frenzy and hateful […]

By Julie Steenhuysen and Michael Erman (Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Friday it is seeking new suppliers to ease shortages of methotrexate, one of the most commonly used cancer drugs, building on its push to shore up two other scarce chemotherapy medicines. An FDA spokesperson told Reuters the agency is looking for temporary importation options for the drug, which has been in shortage since March. […]

(Reuters) – Traders who have sold Tesla Inc shares short have lost about $6.08 billion on a mark-to-market basis during the electric car maker’s current winning streak, according to the latest data from S3 Partners. Tesla’s current rally, which will span 11 sessions if it closes Friday’s session higher, has the stock up around 35% since May 24. Investors who sell securities ‘short’ borrow shares and then sell them, expecting […]

By Sarah N. Lynch and Jonathan Stempel WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. prosecutors unsealed an indictment against Donald Trump on Friday, accusing the former president of risking some of the country’s most sensitive security secrets with his handling of unclassified documents after leaving the White House in 2021. The Justice Department made the criminal charges public on a tumultuous day in which two of Trump’s lawyers quit the case. The indictment charges […]