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Film academy condemns Will Smith slap, starts review of Oscars incident
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the group that hands out the Oscars, said in a statement on Monday that it condemned Will Smith's slap of presenter Chris Rock ...
Mar 28, 2022
S&P Global forecasts 8.5% contraction in Russia’s economy in 2022
(Reuters) - S&P Global cut its 2022 GDP growth estimate for Russia by more than 11 percentage points to an 8.5% contraction, while its forecasts for Poland and Turkey were shaved by more than 1 percen...
Mar 28, 2022
In detecting alien life on a faraway planet, methane may be the key
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - For humankind, evidence for life beyond Earth is unlikely to be as dramatic as an alien spaceship landing, say, next to the Eiffel Tower in Paris. It is more like...
Mar 28, 2022
U.S. exchanges defeat high-frequency trading lawsuit
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge on Monday dismissed long-running litigation accusing seven U.S. stock exchanges of defrauding ordinary investors by quietly allowing high-frequ...
Mar 28, 2022
U.S. trade officials to consider tariffs on solar imports from Southeast Asia
By Nichola Groom (Reuters) - U.S. trade officials on Monday said they will launch an investigation into whether to impose tariffs on solar energy equipment from four Southeast Asian nations, a blow to...
Mar 28, 2022
Bayer shareholder Union Investment says CEO should stay on
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Bayer shareholder Union Investment on Monday came out in support of the drugmaker's chief executive serving out his full term after the CEO came under renewed pressure over the c...
Mar 28, 2022
Stoller keeps heat on Democrats regarding COVID-19 debt repayment plan
PEORIA, Ill. – Republican leaders in the Illinois Senate are continuing to say the way Democrats are spending federal COVID-19-related money to pay down various debts, including in the stateR...
Mar 28, 2022
President Biden pitches minimum tax on billionaires in new budget
By Pete Schroeder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Monday proposed imposing a minimum tax on the nation's richest people to challenge the "indefensibly low tax rates" the wealthy can engineer...
Mar 28, 2022
Factbox-Biden budget would hire thousands to fight forest fires, help veterans
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden's $5.79 trillion budget plan released on Monday calls for the federal government to hire thousands more workers to fight forest fires, provide medical c...
Mar 28, 2022
U.S. Commerce Department says it will investigate solar imports from four Asian countries
(Reuters) - U.S. trade officials will investigate whether imports of solar energy equipment from four Southeast Asian nations are circumventing tariffs on goods made in China, the Commerce Department ...
Mar 28, 2022
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