Town Hall News

By Nick Carey LONDON (Reuters) – Self-driving startup Venti Technologies said on Tuesday it has raised $28.8 million in Series A funding to speed up the growth of its autonomous vehicle (AV) business for customers the logistics and supply chain industry. Investors in the funding round included LG Technology Ventures, the venture capital arm of LG Corp unit LG Group, and UOB Venture Management, the venture capital arm of Singapore’s […]

By Kevin Wurm NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) -A heavily armed 28-year-old fatally shot three children and three adult staffers on Monday at a private Christian school the suspect once attended in Tennessee’s capital city before police killed the assailant, authorities said. The motive was not immediately known, but the suspect had drawn detailed maps of the school, including entry points for the building, and left behind a “manifesto” and other writings […]

By Sandra Stojanovic NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) – Investigators seeking clues to the latest bout of mass gun violence in the U.S. pored over a “manifesto” and other writings uncovered after three children and three adults were shot dead at a Christian school by a 28-year-old former student. Police killed the perpetrator of Monday’s shooting in Nashville, Tennessee, identified by authorities as local resident Audrey Elizabeth Hale, when they stormed the […]

By Amanda Cooper LONDON (Reuters) -Global stocks rose and the dollar eased on Tuesday, after a deal backed by the U.S. regulator for First Citizens BancShares to buy up Silicon Valley Bank helped alleviate some of the recent concern about the health of the banking sector. U.S. banking regulators said on Monday they planned to tell Congress that the overall financial system remains on a solid footing after recent bank […]

By Catarina Demony and Miguel Pereira LISBON (Reuters) -At least two people were killed and several injured in a knife attack at the Ismaili Centre in Lisbon on Tuesday, Portuguese police said. An unidentified man carrying a large knife attacked the Shia Muslim centre in Lisbon just before 11 a.m. (1100 GMT) on Tuesday, a police statement said. The attacker was shot after refusing to lay down his weapon and […]

MADRID/CAIRO (Reuters) – A 27-year-old worker at a Madrid hotel hosting the Morocco team was arrested for an alleged hate crime after posting derogatory comments on Islam and racist slurs against the players on social media, Spanish police and the hotel said on Tuesday. Local police told Reuters the employee, a waiter at the Spanish capital’s five-star Eurostars Hotel Tower, asked players to take photographs with him. He then uploaded […]

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) -At least 39 migrants died after a fire broke out at a migrant facility in the Mexican northern border city of Ciudad Juarez, the government’s National Migration Institute (INM) said on Tuesday. In a statement, the INM said there were 68 adult men from Central and South America staying at the facility. Twenty-nine migrants were also injured in the blaze and were taken to four hospitals […]

HELSINKI (Reuters) – Finland is headed for a close-fought parliament election on April 2, with the three largest parties in a near dead heat, an opinion poll published by daily Helsingin Sanomat showed on Tuesday. Support for the right-wing opposition National Coalition Party declined by one percentage point from last week to 19.8%, narrowly ahead of the ruling Social Democrats and the nationalist Finns Party with support of 19.2% each. […]

By Caroline Valetkevitch NEW YORK (Reuters) – Further relief from the U.S. bank stocks rout may have to wait until banks report quarterly results starting next month, which strategists said could give more details about the sector’s overall health after the recent collapse of some big regional players. Bank shares rebounded Monday after First Citizens BancShares Inc said it would acquire the deposits and loans of Silicon Valley Bank, whose […]