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Americas Gold and Silver Corp reports fatality at Idaho mining complex

(Reuters) – Americas Gold and Silver Corp said on Wednesday an underground miner died at its Galena mining complex in Idaho. Operations have been suspended and an investigation is underway, the Canadian mining company said, adding that it was working with the Mine Safety and Health Administration and local authorities who were onsite. The fatality …

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Access, printouts and glue: Tracing the source of leaked US secrets

By Idrees Ali, Jonathan Landay and Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A probe into the leak of secret U.S. documents likely will require investigators to examine those who had access and scrutinize details like objects captured in photos of the materials, former U.S. officials told Reuters, as pressure grows to find the person or …

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Tennessee Democrats push to bring second expelled lawmaker back to House

By Sandra Stojanovic and Omar Younis NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) -Tennessee Democrats on Tuesday will press for the reinstatement of a second state representatives who was expelled for leading a gun policy protest on the floor of the statehouse, after the first was reinstated on Monday. Justin Jones pumped his fist and declared “power to the …

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US banks to set aside reserves after shoring up First Republic -sources

By Nupur Anand and Lananh Nguyen (Reuters) -Banks that contributed the bulk of $30 billion in deposits to First Republic Bank plan to set aside about $100 million each in first-quarter earnings in case of potential losses, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter said. JPMorgan Chase & Co, Wells Fargo & Co, Citigroup …

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Judge says Fox News has ‘credibility problem’ after Murdoch disclosure

By Tom Hals WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) -A judge said Fox News had a “credibility problem” just days before a $1.6 billion defamation trial after the company disclosed for the first time in nearly two years of litigation that Rupert Murdoch was an officer of the company. Superior Court Judge Eric Davis called the delayed disclosure …

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Emerson Electric nears $8-billion deal for National Instruments – sources

By David Carnevali and Anirban Sen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Industrial conglomerate Emerson Electric is in advanced talks to acquire National Instruments Corp in a deal that could value the measurement equipment maker at about $8 billion, people familiar with the matter said on Tuesday. Emerson outbid other bidders including Fortive Corp and Keysight Technologies Inc …

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Macquarie Group hires Credit Suisse’s top Australian dealmaker – memo

By Scott Murdoch SYDNEY (Reuters) -Macquarie Group has hired Credit Suisse’s top Australian dealmaker Dragi Ristevski, according to a memo from the bank. Ristevski has been Credit Suisse’s head of investment banking and capital markets. He will join Macquarie as the investment bank’s head of financial sponsors for Asia Pacific, the memo said. A Macquarie …

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Kentucky police video shows desperate rush to stop mass shooting, save lives

By Sharon Bernstein and Julia Harte (Reuters) – The desperate rush by a rookie policeman and his training officer to bring a mass shooting at a Kentucky bank to a halt was captured in spare but dramatic detail in footage from their body cameras, released by authorities on Tuesday. The footage, shown by the Louisville …

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Fed’s Kashkari: Recession possible, but high inflation would be worse

(Reuters) – Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank President Neel Kashkari on Tuesday said the Fed’s interest-rate hikes and a possible pullback in lending after two bank failures last month could trigger a recession, but allowing inflation to stay high would be even worse for the labor market. “It could be that our monetary policy actions and …

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Manhattan’s top prosecutor sues to stop Republican ‘intimidation’ in Trump case

By Luc Cohen and Kanishka Singh NEW YORK (Reuters) -Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Tuesday sued Republican U.S. Representative Jim Jordan to stop what Bragg called a “campaign of intimidation” against the criminal prosecution of former President Donald Trump in New York. The lawsuit aims to block a subpoena of Mark Pomerantz, a former …

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