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By Helen Coster WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) -The trial in the $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit by Dominion Voting Systems against Fox Corp and Fox News will proceed with jury selection resuming on Tuesday rather than on Monday as previously scheduled, a judge said on Monday. Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric Davis did not provide a reason for the delay in the trial, stemming from Fox’s airing of false claims that the […]

BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s industrial output rose 3.9% in March year-on-year, official data showed on Tuesday, accelerating from a 2.4% increase in the first two months but missing expectations slightly amid a post-COVID economic recovery. Retail sales rose 10.6%, beating forecasts for a 7.4% increase by a large margin. It was also faster than the 3.5% increase in January-February. Fixed asset investment in January-March slowed to 5.1% growth year-on-year, versus […]

SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Chinese electric vehicle makers should brace for the possibility of protectionist policies being leveled against them by foreign governments as they seize on their cost advantages to expand exports, the founder of Chinese EV maker Nio said. William Li told reporters on the sidelines of the Shanghai Autoshow that he estimated his firm and peers making EVs in China had as much as a 20% cost advantage […]

By Jasper Ward (Reuters) -Prosecutors charged an 84-year-old white Kansas City man with two felonies on Monday in the shooting of a Black teenager who was wounded after walking up to the wrong house when going to pick up his younger twin brothers. Andrew Lester was charged with first-degree assault, which could bring a sentence of life in prison, and armed criminal action for shooting Ralph Yarl, 16, on the […]

By Jasper Ward (Reuters) – A Kansas City man was charged with two felonies on Monday in the shooting of a Black teenager who was wounded after walking up to the wrong house when going to pick up his younger twin brothers. Andrew Lester, an 84-year-old white man, was charged with first degree assault and armed criminal action for shooting Ralph Yarl, 16, on the doorstep of his suburban home […]

SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Premium electric vehicle (EV) maker Polestar, founded by Volvo and Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, said on Tuesday it expects production of its Polestar 4 to begin later this year in Hangzhou Bay. Speaking at the Shanghai auto show, Chief Executive Officer Thomas Ingenlath also said pre-orders for the Polestar 4 would be available in China from today and all other markets in 2024. (Reporting by Casey Hall; […]

By Hyunjoo Jin and Sheila Dang SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -Billionaire Elon Musk said on Monday he will launch an artificial intelligence (AI) platform that he calls “TruthGPT” to challenge the offerings from Microsoft and Google. He criticised Microsoft-backed OpenAI, the firm behind chatbot sensation ChatGPT, of “training the AI to lie” and said OpenAI has now become a “closed source”, “for-profit” organisation “closely allied with Microsoft”. He also accused Larry […]

(Officials corrected the suspect’s age to 84 from 85. The error also appeared in previous stories of this series.) By Jasper Ward (Reuters) -A Kansas City man was charged with two felonies on Monday in the shooting of a Black teenager who was wounded after walking up to the wrong house when going to pick up his younger twin brothers. Andrew Lester, an 84-year-old white man, was charged with first […]

By Scott Murdoch SYDNEY (Reuters) – Asia’s share markets were in a cautious mode on Tuesday as global investors waited to see whether China recorded a first quarter bounceback from its punishing pandemic lockdowns that led to a major economic slowdown. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was down 0.4%, after U.S. stocks ended the previous session with mild gains. The index is up 1.1% so far this […]