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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Republican legislators in Kansas have enacted what may be the most sweeping transgender bathroom law in the U.S. on Thursday, overriding the Democratic governor’s veto of the measure without having a clear idea of how their new law will be enforced. The vote in the House was 84-40, giving supporters exactly the two-thirds majority they needed to override Gov. Laura Kelly’s action. The vote in the […]

MADRID (Reuters) – A Spanish Navy ship tasked with updating nautical charts to make navigation safer got stranded on Thursday near the island of Ibiza in the Mediterranean, the Navy said. The vessel Malaspina was exploring an area of shallows to the west of the island and got stuck on one of them. Rescue teams have been sent to help remove the vessel from the ground, the Navy said in […]

(Reuters) – ‘Pele’ is now a word to describe ‘someone out of the ordinary’ as the three-time World Cup winner’s name was included as a new adjective in the Portuguese edition of the Michaelis dictionary. Earlier this month, the Pele Foundation and Sportv launched the “Pele in the dictionary” campaign to pay tribute and recognise his legacy in other fields besides sport. Having reached more than 100,000 signatures, the name […]

By Simon Jessop and Valerie Volcovici (Reuters) – The leaders of France, Spain, Barbados and Sierra Leone were among those to back a new coalition on Thursday aiming to accelerate the flow of climate-related finance to the world’s poorest countries. The “Power Our Planet: Act Today. Save Tomorrow” campaign led by non-profit group Global Citizen, said it was seeking to mobilize ordinary citizens to pressure leaders for a “seismic shift” […]

(Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc reported first-quarter revenue above Wall Street estimates on Thursday, helped by resilient demand for online shopping and its cloud services businesses. The world’s biggest online retailer net sales of $127.4 billion in the first three months of the year, compared with expectations of $124.55 billion, according to Refinitiv. (Reporting by Akash Sriram in Bengaluru and Jeffrey Dastin in Palo Alto, California; Editing by Arun Koyyur) Brought […]

By Aditya Soni (Reuters) – Meta Platforms Inc is a Wall Street darling again. The company’s shares extended their winning streak on Thursday, surging nearly 14% after Meta’s focus on AI and cost-cutting cheered investors whose enthusiasm has already helped the social media behemoth nearly double in value in 2023. Meta, whose stock was trading at an over one-year high, is set to add around $80 billion to its market […]

By Jack Queen and Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -E. Jean Carroll, a writer accusing Donald Trump of raping her in the mid-1990s, forcefully denied on the witness stand that her failure to scream meant the rape never happened, or that she waited more than two decades to come forward to sell more copies of her 2019 memoir. Under cross-examination on Thursday in Manhattan federal court, Carroll said she went […]

By Philip Blenkinsop BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Commission proposed rules on Thursday to govern patents increasingly in demand for technologies used in smart devices such as drones, connected cars and mobile phones, to try to reduce litigation. The Commission said the system for what are known as standard-essential patents (SEPs), was fragmented, lacked transparency, led to lengthy disputes and that self-regulation had not worked. SEPs protect technology such as for […]

By Deena Beasley (Reuters) – Amgen Inc on Thursday reported lower first-quarter profit as expenses rose and a 2% increase in sales of its own drugs was offset by lower revenue from its deal to manufacture COVID-19 antibody treatments for Eli Lilly and Co. Product sales by volume grew 14% from a year earlier, but was partially offset by a 5% decline in net selling prices due to unfavorable foreign […]