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By Brendan O’Brien (Reuters) – Five people were dead and six others were wounded after a shooting attack on Monday at a bank in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, the city’s police department said. A short while after confirming the attack, police said the shooter was dead, without giving further details. It was unclear whether the death toll of five people included the shooter. “We do not know exactly the circumstance of […]

OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada on Monday said it will continue to work with its Five Eyes intelligence-sharing alliance, and declined to confirm or deny any information from U.S. intelligence documents leaked on social media. “We do not comment, whether to confirm or deny, on allegedly leaked intelligence,” a spokesperson for Canada’s Public Safety ministry said in a statement. “As a member of the Five Eyes intelligence network, Canada has a […]

(Adds dropped word ‘impacted’ in first paragraph) (Reuters) – Vodafone on Monday said it resolved an outage that impacted thousands of its home broadband service users in the United Kingdom, after hours of downtime. “We have now fixed the issue impacting just over 1% of our home broadband customers today. Customers should already be seeing their connectivity return,” the company told Reuters in an emailed statement. Vodafone has about 1.2 […]

By Nate Raymond (Reuters) – The federal judge who on Friday suspended approval of the abortion pill mifepristone is a former Christian legal activist whose small courthouse in Amarillo, Texas, has become a go-to destination for conservatives challenging Biden administration policies. U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, an appointee of former Republican President Donald Trump, had a long track record of opposing abortion and LGBTQ rights before the U.S. Senate confirmed […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken plans to accompany President Joe Biden on his visit to the United Kingdom and Ireland this week before traveling to Vietnam and Japan, the State Department said on Monday. Biden will visit the UK and Ireland from Tuesday to Friday. Blinken will go on to Hanoi, where he will hold talks with Vietnamese officials and celebrate the 10th anniversary of the […]

By Clara Denina and Mrinalika Roy (Reuters) -Canada’s Teck Resources on Monday reinforced its rejection of an unsolicited $22.5 billion bid from Glencore, calling it “an illusion” and telling shareholders that its proposed restructuring is the only option on the table. Glencore’s offer, made public on April 3, includes a plan to simultaneously spin off the companies’ thermal and steelmaking coal businesses and rebrand the remaining company as GlenTeck. Talking […]

By Brendan O’Brien (Reuters) – A shooting on Monday in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, near Slugger Field, resulted in multiple casualties, the city’s police department said on Twitter. “We are confirming reports of an active aggressor in the 300 block of East Main. Please stay out of the area,” it said. The FBI said its agents have responded to the scene. Police activity was seen near a bank in the downtown […]

(Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) plans to hold a meeting of its outside experts in June to discuss full approval of the Alzheimer’s drug developed by Eisai Co Ltd and Biogen Inc, according to a federal filing on Monday. The drug, Leqembi was granted accelerated approval by the FDA in January for patients in the earliest stages of the mind-wasting disease. The U.S. health regulator grants […]

By Karen Brettell NEW YORK (Reuters) – The dollar gained after a solid jobs report for March on Friday added to expectations that the Federal Reserve will hike rates again in May, while the Japanese yen weakened as Japan’s new central bank governor Kazuo Ueda indicated that he was in no hurry to dial back its massive stimulus. U.S. employers maintained a strong pace of hiring in March, adding 236,000 […]