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Las Vegas campus gunman described as struggling academic with ‘target list’

By Steve Gorman (Reuters) -The gunman who killed three professors and wounded one at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, was a financially struggling academic whose job applications were rejected by several higher-education institutions in Nevada, police said on Thursday. Anthony James Polito, 67, also had mailed nearly two dozen suspicious letters to faculty at …

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Citigroup reorganization to be completed in first quarter, CFO says

(This Dec. 6 story has been corrected after Citigroup clarified that the $1 billion figure does not relate only to the reorganization recently announced in paragraphs 1, 2, 3 and 6) By Tatiana Bautzer and Niket Nishant (Reuters) – Citigroup Chief Financial Officer Mark Mason said the company will book $1 billion in costs that …

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Two months of war in Gaza leave elderly and newborns destitute and displaced

GAZA (Reuters) – After two months of war in Gaza, most of its people are homeless, crammed by a pounding Israeli bombardment into yet smaller areas of an already tiny enclave where the elderly and newborns live alike in tents amid the rubble. Three women pushed from their homes in the Gaza Strip over 61 …

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Hunter Biden hit with federal charges for tax evasion scheme

By Costas Pitas and Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -The Department of Justice on Thursday filed new criminal charges against U.S. President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, accusing him of failing to pay $1.4 million in taxes while spending millions of dollars on a lavish lifestyle. Hunter Biden was hit with three felony and six misdemeanor …

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Australia ‘heartened’ as US Congress expected to pass AUKUS provisions

By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s government on Friday welcomed signs that a U.S. defense spending bill which would authorise the sale of nuclear submarines to Australia is set to pass Congress after a compromise between Republicans and Democrats. The sale is part of AUKUS – a pact with the United States and Britain …

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Yen bulls spy a ray of hope in BOJ policy hint

By Amanda Cooper LONDON (Reuters) -Investors in Japan’s yen have jumped at what they see as the clearest sign yet from the country’s monetary authorities that the end of ultra-low interest rates is fast approaching, opening the floodgates to a rush of buyers. The yen surged over 2% to a multi-month high against the dollar …

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Peru prosecutor suspended while anti-govt protests spread

LIMA (Reuters) – Peru’s justice oversight board suspended Attorney General Patricia Benavides amid an anti-corruption probe and as protesters on Thursday called on President Dina Boluarte to resign on the anniversary of her first year in office. Prosecutors allege that over the last six months, Benavides led a team of officials who were coordinating a …

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Trump fake electors buckle in Wisconsin, get charged in Nevada

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Nevada charged six Republican fake electors in connection with a scheme to overturn Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss to President Joe Biden, while 10 false electors reached a legal settlement in Wisconsin that affirmed the Democrat’s victory. WHY IT’S IMPORTANT Wednesday’s actions marked the latest legal developments in a 2020 plan to …

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Woodside in talks with Santos to form $52 billion Australian gas giant

By Scott Murdoch, Emily Chow and Lewis Jackson SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s Woodside Energy and Santos said on Thursday they were in preliminary talks to create an A$80 billion ($52 billion) global oil and gas giant, as consolidation among international energy firms intensifies. Combining two of Australia’s largest oil and gas producers would be the …

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UPS fires about 35 newly organized US workers, Teamsters union says

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -The Teamsters union that represents U.S. workers at United Parcel Service on Thursday said it would respond to the firing of about 35 newly organized workers at the delivery company by filing unfair labor practice charges and potentially striking. The roughly three dozen affected specialist and administrative workers at UPS’s Centennial hub …

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