By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Documents marked as classified were discovered at former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence’s Indiana home last week, and he has turned those classified records over to the FBI, his attorney said in letters seen by Reuters on Tuesday. The attorney, Greg Jacob, sent a letter to the National Archives on …
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By Chavi Mehta (Reuters) – Texas Instruments forecast first-quarter revenue and profit largely below Wall Street targets on Tuesday, as an economic downturn threatens to shackle demand from the chipmaker’s so far resilient markets. Smartphones and personal computing products were the first to feel the pinch of customers cutting back on discretionary spending as interest …
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By Lucy Craymer WELLINGTON (Reuters) – New Zealand’s consumer inflation held near three-decade highs last quarter but came in below the central bank’s forecast, prompting some analysts to bet that cash rate increases over the coming months might be less aggressive than previously thought. Annual inflation ran at 7.2% in the fourth quarter unchanged from …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Senator Josh Hawley, a Republican and China hawk, said on Tuesday that he would introduce a bill to ban the short video app TikTok in the United States. TikTok, whose parent is the Chinese company ByteDance, already faces a ban that would stop federal employees from using or downloading TikTok on government-owned …
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By Stephen Culp NEW YORK (Reuters) – The S&P 500 ended nominally lower on Tuesday at the close of a rocky session marked by a raft of mixed earnings and a technical malfunction at the opening bell. A spate of NYSE-listed stocks were halted at the top of the session due to an apparent technical …
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By Steve Scherer OTTAWA (Reuters) -Canadian Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Tuesday her approach to this year’s budget, due out sometime this spring, would be carefully calibrated due to a high level of uncertainty in the global economy. “There is still a lot of uncertainty in the world economy, and that means that we …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Any agreement to address the U.S. debt ceiling and avoid a first-ever default by Washington will have to come from President Joe Biden and House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy, the top Senate Republican said on Tuesday. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who has played an integral role in debt ceiling negotiations …
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By Joseph Ax (Reuters) -A Georgia prosecutor investigating Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn his defeat in the state’s 2020 presidential election told a judge on Tuesday that decisions on whether to bring criminal charges are “imminent.” Fani Willis, the Fulton County district attorney, spoke at a hearing on whether to publicly release the final report …
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By Steve Holland, Nandita Bose and Jarrett Renshaw WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The White House said on Monday that a search by the Justice Department of President Joe Biden’s home on Friday had been carried out after a “voluntary, proactive offer” by his personal lawyers to the department. The White House Counsel’s Office also said it was …
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By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democratic and Republican U.S. lawmakers praised Ukraine’s government on Tuesday for taking swift action against corruption and insisted that U.S. military and humanitarian aid to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s government should continue. A slew of senior Ukrainian officials were dismissed on Tuesday in Ukraine’s biggest political shake-up of the war …
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