(Reuters) -New York City’s John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) will reopen its Terminal 1 for limited operations on Saturday, after it remained closed on Friday due to an electrical power outage. “Contingent on the completion of repairs and testing, we anticipate the start of limited operations at Terminal 1 on Saturday,” the Port Authority …
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(Reuters) – KKR-backed technology firm BMC Software has confidentially filed for an initial public offering in the United States, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters, offering an early sign of a thawing market after a virtual shutdown for most of last year. Spiraling global markets amid a widespread sell-off, particularly in the technology …
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By Joseph Ax (Reuters) -Some witnesses may have lied under oath during a grand jury probe of former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election defeat in Georgia, according to excerpts from the panel’s findings released on Thursday. The special grand jury also concluded there was no widespread fraud in the election, despite Trump’s false …
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By Nathan Layne HILLSDALE, Mich (Reuters) – Jon Smith, a local leader in rural Michigan of America First, a far-right Republican faction that denies the results of the 2020 election, wants to shift the entire party to the right – even if it means short-term losses at the ballot box. “We need to redefine what …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund on Friday said it reached a staff-level agreement with Ukraine, setting the stage for talks on a full loan program that would support Kyiv’s economy and its bid to join the European Union. The IMF said the agreement on the first and final review of a Program Monitoring …
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By Steve Holland and Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden said on Thursday he expects to speak with China’s president, Xi Jinping, about what the United States says was a Chinese spy balloon that a U.S. fighter jet shot down early this month after it transited the United States. “We are not looking for …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Democratic U.S. Senator John Fetterman, who flipped a Republican-held seat in last November’s elections just six months after suffering a near-fatal stroke, checked into a Washington-area hospital on Wednesday for treatment for clinical depression, his office said in a statement. The 53-year-old Pennsylvania senator was evaluated at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center …
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By Jonathan Landay and Andreas Rinke MUNICH, Germany (Reuters) – Nearly 50 lawmakers from both major U.S. political parties on Friday attended the start of Europe’s premier annual security conference to affirm bipartisan support for U.S. aid to Ukraine. Four delegations of Democratic and Republican leaders and members of the Senate and House converged as …
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By Maria Alejandra Cardona MEMPHIS, Tenn. (Reuters) -Five fired Memphis police officers on Friday pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder and other charges stemming from the beating of Tyre Nichols, a Black man whose death three days later stirred outrage and fresh calls for reform. Police video captured images of the officers beating and kicking …
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(Reuters) – The Federal Reserve will need to keep raising interest rates until it makes much more progress on bringing high inflation back down towards its 2% goal particularly in light of recent disappointing data, Fed Governor Michelle Bowman said on Friday. “I think there’s a long way to go before we reach our 2% …
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