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By Caroline Valetkevitch NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Dow and S&P 500 were higher in afternoon trading Monday as a deal for Silicon Valley Bank’s assets helped investor confidence in banks, while the Nasdaq edged lower. The S&P 500 banks index was up 2.8%, while the KBW regional banking index was up 1.1%. Shares of JPMorgan Chase & Co were up 2.9%, helping to support the S&P 500 along with […]

By Andreas Rinke and Sarah Marsh BERLIN (Reuters) – The three parties in Germany’s governing coalition on Monday ended 20 hours of talks without resolving disputes over spending and other issues although Chancellor Olaf Scholz said they achieved “very good progress.” Amid worries about policy gridlock in Europe’s largest economy, Germany’s first coalition at the federal level, which joins Scholz’s Social Democrats, the Greens and pro-business Free Democrats (FDP), has […]

By Dan Peleschuk KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine shut the eastern town of Avdiivka to non-military personnel on Monday, describing it as a post-apocalyptic wasteland, as Kyiv tried to break the back of Russia’s flagging winter offensive before a counter-assault of its own. A Ukrainian general said Kyiv was planning its next move after Moscow appeared to shift focus from the small city of Bakhmut, which Russia has failed to capture […]

By Andrew Chung and John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices on Monday appeared inclined to uphold a federal law that made it a crime to encourage illegal immigration, signaling agreement with President Joe Biden’s administration that the measure does not violate constitutional free speech protections. The justices heard arguments in the administration’s appeal of a lower court’s decision in a case from California to strike down the […]

By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) – Arab broadcasters carried rolling coverage of Israeli protests, strikes and political chaos on Monday, drawing the rapt attention of viewers to the internal fight over government plans to overhaul the judiciary. The crisis featured far and wide, from the pan-Arab channel Al Jazeera, whose ticker was dominated by a stream of news from Israel, to al-Manar, run by the Iran-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah, which […]

By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) – Arab broadcasters carried rolling coverage of Israeli protests, strikes and political chaos on Monday, drawing the rapt attention of viewers to the internal fight over government plans to overhaul the judiciary. The crisis featured far and wide, from the pan-Arab channel Al Jazeera, whose ticker was dominated by a stream of news from Israel, to al-Manar, run by the Iran-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah, which […]

By Maayan Lubell JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday delayed a decision on bitterly contested plans for a judicial overhaul amid fears that Israel’s worst national crisis in years could fracture his coalition or escalate into violence. It was unclear how far the bill’s delay to next month’s new parliamentary session, after mass protests and growing labour strikes, will satisfy either side or cool a crisis the army […]

By Andrew Hay (Reuters) -A New Mexico judge on Monday told the district attorney overseeing the “Rust” movie-set shooting case that she could not appoint a new special prosecutor and remain on the case herself, marking another potential setback for the prosecution. The comments by district court Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer came after the armorer charged in the 2021 shooting filed a motion to block appointment of a new special […]

(Reuters) -A female shooter killed three children and three adults at a private Christian school in Nashville, Tennessee, on Monday before police shot her dead. The assailant appeared to be a teenage girl, police said. Police began receiving calls at 10:13 a.m. of a shooter at The Covenant School, which teaches children up to 6th grade. Officers could hear gunfire coming from the school’s second floor, Don Aaron, a spokesperson […]