By Jeff Mason and Doug Palmer WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama tapped Mike Froman and Penny Pritzker for the last two vacant Cabinet slots on his economic team on Thursday, turning to a law school classmate who is already one of his chief advisers and a billionaire businesswoman who...
By Edward McAllister NEW YORK (Reuters) - When the conversation between President Barack Obama and his newly elected Mexican counterpart Enrique Pena Nieto turns to the controversial topic of energy during their meeting this week, both are apt to step carefully. The two countries have abruptly...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Private employers added 119,000 jobs in April, well below economists' expectations in the latest piece of data to suggest the economy is encountering a soft patch, a report by a payrolls processor showed on Wednesday. Economists surveyed by Reuters had forecast the ADP...
By Jon Herskovitz JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's police anti-corruption unit said on Friday it had opened an investigation at state oil company PetroSA, which reported "deviations" in financial procedures that a newspaper said involved millions of dollars of irregular payments. In an...
By Patricia Zengerle, Samuel P. Jacobs and Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON/CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (Reuters) - U.S. intelligence was alerted when one of the Boston bombing suspects traveled to a volatile region of Russia last year, U.S. officials said on Wednesday, raising new questions about the...
ROME (Reuters) - Silvio Berlusconi's center-right indicated on Tuesday that it would consider backing the young center-left mayor of Florence Matteo Renzi as Italian prime minister after his name was suggested by the center-left Democratic Party (PD). Renzi, 38, who opinion polls indicate as the...
Bob Leonard and his family were Boston Marathon veterans and he preferred a spot not too far from the finish line to shoot runners as they concluded their 26.1-mile run. The area was less congested and over the years he learned that the men and women in the lead there usually went on to win...
CAIRO (Reuters) - The retrial of ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on charges of complicity in the killing of demonstrators in the uprising that ousted him will start on May 11, a Cairo appeals court said on Wednesday. The retrial collapsed last Saturday when the presiding judge withdrew...
By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Consumer prices fell in March for the first time in four months and factory output slipped, strengthening the argument for the Federal Reserve to maintain its monetary stimulus to speed up economic growth. Other data on Tuesday suggested the housing...
By Khalid Abdelaziz and Andrew Green JUBA (Reuters) - Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir said on Friday he wanted normal ties with his nation's old adversary South Sudan on his first visit there since southern secession in 2011. The neighbours agreed in March to resume cross-border oil...
By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - Child deaths from pneumonia and severe diarrhoea, mainly among the poor in Africa and South Asia, could be virtually eliminated by 2025 under an "integrated" strategy that includes better sanitation and newer vaccines, U.N. agencies said on Friday. The...
By Yeganeh Torbati and Marcus George DUBAI (Reuters) - A powerful earthquake struck close to Iran's only nuclear power station on Tuesday, killing 37 people and injuring 850 as it destroyed homes and devastated two small villages, Iranian media reported. The 6.3 magnitude quake totally destroyed...
Michigan advances to play Louisville in the NCAA championship game after beating Syracuse 61-56 in the Final Four. Earlier, Louisville beat Wichita State, 72-68.
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