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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The FBI lacked “actual evidence” to investigate Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and relied too heavily on tips provided by Trump’s political opponents to fuel the probe, U.S. Special Counsel John Durham concluded in a report released on Monday. The report marks the end of a four-year probe launched in May 2019 when then-Attorney General William Barr appointed Durham, a veteran prosecutor, to probe potential missteps by […]

By Chuck Mikolajczak NEW YORK (Reuters) – The S&P 500 and the Dow ended with modest gains on Monday after manufacturing data raised concerns about a slowing U.S. economy amid ongoing debt ceiling negotiations, while a rise in Meta shares helped lift the Nasdaq. The New York Federal Reserve’s “Empire State” index, a gauge of manufacturing activity in New York State on current business conditions, tumbled to a reading of […]

By Andrew Goudsward (Reuters) – Exxon Mobil Corp on Monday settled a long-running human rights lawsuit with villagers who claimed soldiers Exxon hired to guard a natural gas facility in Indonesia committed murder and torture. The two sides said in a Washington, D.C., federal court filing that they had resolved the 2001 case. Agnieszka Fryszman, a lawyer for the Indonesian villagers at law firm Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll, said […]

By Michael S. Derby NEW YORK (Reuters) -Americans’ appetite for taking on new mortgages slowed substantially during the first quarter, data released by the New York Fed on Monday showed, amid a modest gain in overall household borrowing levels at the start of the year. Overall household debt levels rose by 0.9% to $17.05 trillion during the first three months of the year, the bank said in its latest Quarterly […]

By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The FBI lacked “actual evidence” to investigate Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and relied too heavily on tips provided by Trump’s political opponents to fuel the probe, U.S. Special Counsel John Durham concluded in a report released on Monday. The report marks the end of a four-year probe launched in May 2019 when then-Attorney General William Barr appointed Durham, a veteran prosecutor, to probe […]

KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine’s state security agency has served businessman Dmytro Firtash and top managers of companies he controls with “notices of suspicion” of embezzlement, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said in a statement on Monday. The SBU said that, acting with the Economic Security Bureau (BEB), it had uncovered the alleged theft of up to $485 million between 2016 and 2022 as part of a “large-scale scheme” involving Ukraine’s […]

By Caroline Valetkevitch NEW YORK (Reuters) – First-quarter U.S. company results are winding down, but investors will get one last blast of reports in coming days from some top retailers, which could offer further details on the outlook for earnings and how consumers are faring. Investors are anxious to see whether the last results of the earnings season may be enough to turn the estimate for S&P 500 first-quarter earnings […]

(Reuters) -Britain promised Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy long-range attack drones when he visited the country on Monday as part of European tour aimed at securing new weapons for a counteroffensive against Russia. DIPLOMACY AND ECONOMY * A top Chinese envoy, Li Hui, was due to begin a tour of Ukraine, Russia and other European countries on Monday in a trip Beijing says is aimed at discussing a “political settlement” to […]

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The personal information of 237,000 current and former federal government employees has been exposed in a data breach at the U.S. Transportation Department (USDOT), sources briefed on the matter said on Friday. The breach hit systems for processing TRANServe transit benefits that reimburse government employees for some commuting costs. It was not clear if any of the personal information had been used for criminal […]