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By Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden will tell Colombian President Gustavo Petro in White House talks on Thursday that he is willing to further ease sanctions on Venezuela only in return for concrete steps toward free elections there, a senior administration official told Reuters. Previewing the leaders’ first meeting, the official said Biden would reiterate to Petro, who has called for lifting sanctions on Venezuela, that he […]

By Doyinsola Oladipo NEW YORK (Reuters) -Las Vegas Sands Corp on Wednesday reported quarterly revenue that surpassed Wall Street estimates as March visitation levels accelerated gaming volumes, retail sales and hotel occupancy. The Las Vegas-based casino operator said traffic is rebounding in Singapore and Macao, and it expects further improvement in travel and tourism spending from China and Hong Kong as airline and ferry capacity rebounds. Shares of the casino […]

By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -A former prosecutor who once led the Manhattan district attorney’s criminal investigation into former U.S. President Donald Trump must testify before a congressional committee, a U.S. judge held on Wednesday. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, a Democrat who got Trump indicted in the first ever criminal charges against a former president, last week sued Republican Representative Jim Jordan to block a subpoena for testimony […]

NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A former employee at the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) sent confidential records relating to hundreds of thousands of consumers and several financial institutions to their personal email account, the agency said on Wednesday. The bureau found personally identifiable information relating to customers of seven institutions that had been forwarded by a staffer who is no longer employed at the CFPB, it said in a […]

By Anna Mehler Paperny TORONTO (Reuters) – Officials with soccer’s international governing body FIFA criticized Canada’s decision not to recognize documents FIFA and a Canadian senator had given to female athletes and others who were scrambling to flee Afghanistan after the Taliban took over in 2021. Canada refused to accept “visa facilitation letters” FIFA and Canadian Senator Marilou McPhedran handed out based on a template provided by a Canadian Department […]

By Dietrich Knauth (Reuters) -U.S. veterans and members of the military on Wednesday urged a judge to dismiss 3M’s bid to use the bankruptcy of its subsidiary Aearo Technologies to shield itself from nearly 260,000 lawsuits over military-issue earplugs that former users allege were defective and damaged their hearing. 3M and Aearo say the earplug litigation has spiraled out of control. But attorney Adam Silverstein, who represents veterans suing 3M […]

MILAN (Reuters) – Inter drew 3-3 with Benfica on Wednesday to win their Champions League quarter-final 5-3 on aggregate and will face city rivals AC Milan for the right to be the first Italian team to reach the final for six years. It will be Inter’s first semi-final appearance since they won the European Cup for the third time in 2010, the last Italian Champions League triumph with Juventus losing […]

By Brendan O’Brien (Reuters) -Three Alabama teenagers have been taken into custody and charged with murder in last week’s shooting at a “Sweet 16” birthday party that left four dead and 32 wounded, state police said on Wednesday. Two suspects – Ty Reik McCullough, 17, and Travis McCullough, 16 – both from Tuskegee, were arrested on Tuesday night and charged with four counts of reckless murder, Sergeant Jeremy Burkett of […]

MILAN (Reuters) -Inter drew 3-3 with Benfica on Wednesday to win their Champions League quarter-final 5-3 on aggregate and will face city rivals AC Milan for the right to be the first Italian team to reach the final for six years. It will be Inter’s first semi-final appearance since they won the European Cup for the third time in 2010, the last Italian Champions League triumph with Juventus losing the […]