President-elect Trump sued for defamation
On Tuesday, January 17, 2017, Attorney Gloria Allred holds a press conference to unveil a new defamation lawsuit being brought against President-elect Donald Trump.
On Tuesday, January 17, 2017, Attorney Gloria Allred holds a press conference to unveil a new defamation lawsuit being brought against President-elect Donald Trump.
The settlement with the Realtors' association ended guaranteed commissions but could impose new costs on buyers already struggling to break into the market.
Companies are getting bolder in their battles to beat back proposals requiring them to disclose more about everything from environmental policies to AI.
British consumer goods giant Unilever announced Tuesday that it will separate its ice cream unit, whose top-selling products include Ben & Jerry's and Magnum, as a standalone business.It added: "After separating Ice Cream and implementing the productivity programme, Unilever will have a structurally higher margin."
Images taken by miniature drones from deep inside a badly damaged reactor at the Fukushima nuclear plant show displaced control equipment and misshapen materials but leave many questions unanswered, underscoring the daunting task of decommissioning the plant. The 12 photos released by the plant's operator are the first from inside the main structural support called the pedestal in the hardest-hit No. 1 reactor’s primary containment vessel, an area directly under the reactor's core. Officials had long hoped to reach the area to examine the core and melted nuclear fuel which dripped there when the plant's cooling systems were damaged by a massive earthquake and tsunami in 2011.
Illegal profits from forced labor worldwide have risen to the “obscene” amount of $236 billion per year, the U.N. labor agency reported Tuesday, with sexual exploitation to blame for three-fourths of the take from a business that deprives migrants of money they can send home, swipes jobs from legal workers, and allows the criminals behind it to dodge taxes. The International Labor Organization said the tally for 2021, the most recent year covered in the painstaking international study, marked an increase of 37%, or $64 billion, compared with its last estimate published a decade ago. Forced labor can encourage corruption, strengthen criminal networks and incentivize further exploitation, ILO said.
The yen weakened and Tokyo stocks rose Tuesday after the Bank of Japan hiked interest rates for the first time in 17 years as it shifted away from its long-running ultra-loose monetary policy.While the moves were a major change from a long-running policy, Japanese stocks rose as the BoJ's comment that conditions would remain accommodative tempered fears of more hikes.
Fed officials are expected this week to discuss a strategy for how to slow the shrinking of their massive balance sheet, another tool used to tighten financial conditions over the last two years.
Japan welcomed 2.79 million visitors in February, a record for the month and the most for any month since the COVID-19 pandemic began, boosted by travel during Lunar New Year holidays. The number of foreign visitors for business and leisure was up from 2.69 million in January, data from the Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO) showed on Tuesday. For all of 2019, Japan welcomed a record 31.9 million visitors before the pandemic struck.
Japan's central bank pulled the plug Tuesday on its ultra-aggressive monetary stimulus programme, hiking rates for the first time since the global financial crisis. The US Federal Reserve and other central banks yanked up rates to rein in inflation after Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet forget they used to be in love in a wonderfully inventive and moving reminder of why romantic pain is an important thing to remember
The Senate was the key stumbling block in recent years when Washington confronted Big Tech. The question is whether that will change as it weighs the fate of TikTok in the US.
The Bank of Japan announced a seismic change in direction on Tuesday, hiking interest rates for the first time in 17 years."Having failed to achieve the target within a committed two-year period, the BoJ had no other choice than to pursue further stimulative measures including the negative interest rate," Momma told AFP. - Spur lending - The negative interest rate of -0.1 percent -- hiked to between zero and 0.1 percent on Tuesday -- had been in place since 2016, effectively charging banks to ke
Authorities in Tennessee are searching for a 22-year-old college student who vanished after leaving a downtown Nashville bar 10 days ago.
The entire population of Gaza is experiencing "severe levels of acute food insecurity", US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday, underscoring the urgency for increasing the delivery of humanitarian aid into the Palestinian territory."According to the most respected measure of these things, 100 percent of the population in Gaza is at severe levels of acute food insecurity.
FRANKFURT (Reuters) -Bayer said on Tuesday that it would request regulatory approval for its menopause drug after the daily pill was shown to ease hot flashes in a third late-stage trial, providing some relief for its pharmaceuticals unit that is reeling from a recent development setback. Germany's Bayer said in a statement that a third Phase III trial with its elinzanetant drug candidate provided supporting data on efficacy and long-term safety. Together with data from two earlier studies, Bayer would file requests for approval for the treatment of moderate to severe vasomotor symptoms, also known as hot flashes, associated with menopause.
Nvidia on Monday announced a major expansion of its collaboration with world-leading BYD and other Chinese electric car makers, including on the development of autonomous AI-boosted vehicles.Nvidia said other major Chinese EV firms, including XPeng, Li Auto, ZEEKR and GAC Aion have also adopted the Thor platform, which was first announced in 2022.
Is Oprah Winfrey taking Ozempic? The talk show host says she's using a weight-loss drug after appearing much slimmer at "The Color Purple" premiere.
Britain's deputy prime minister defended on Tuesday Israel's right to protect itself amid growing tension between the Middle Eastern country and its biggest backers, but called for an "immediate ceasefire" in Gaza on humanitarian grounds. Oliver Dowden said the British government was "continuously" urging Israel to abide by international humanitarian law and had also raised concerns about getting aid into Gaza, where a humanitarian crisis is raging after six months of fighting.
Oprah Winfrey returned to TV with a special focused on how weight-loss drugs like Wegovy and Zepbound are changing the health of people with obesity.
(Reuters) -AstraZeneca said on Tuesday it will buy clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company Fusion Pharmaceuticals Inc for about $2 billion in cash as the Anglo-Swedish drugmaker bets on next-generation cancer treatments. The deal is AstraZeneca's second this month after it agreed last week to buy Amolyt Pharma for $1.05 billion to shore up its rare disease portfolio. The drugmaker will pay $21 per Fusion share, a premium of more than 97% to the U.S.-listed company's closing price on Monday.