By Joe Skipper, Steve Gorman and Joey Roulette CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida, Oct 1 (Reuters) – A SpaceX rocket lifted off from Florida on Thursday with a crew of two US astronauts, a Canadian astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut headed to the International Space Station for a science mission devoted to huma
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, Oct 1 (Reuters) – AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon have appointed wireless industry veteran Paul Roth as interim chief executive of their new joint venture aimed at expanding satellite-enabled mobile coverage, the companies said on Thursday. The largest U.S. wireless compan
(Nashville, TN) — Tennessee’s first woman slated for execution in over 200 years is still alive this morning. Christa Pike was scheduled to be put to death on Wednesday by lethal injection, but the procedure failed, and Pike was still breathing after receiving two doses. She was taken to a hospital
Oct 1 (Reuters) – A growing number of people think social media manipulates and divides people and harms democracy, Pew Research Center said on Thursday, echoing rising concern and tighter scrutiny across the world. Companies running popular social platforms, including Meta, Snap and TikTok, have fa
By Steven Scheer JERUSALEM, Oct 1 (Reuters) – Israel’s three largest airlines said on Thursday they planned to resume flights to Dubai after what Israeli officials have said was an apparent attempt to crash a flydubai flight to Tel Aviv the previous day. Dubai has been one of the most popular destin
(SRN NEWS) – “Global Landscape,” a standout feature from SRN News, is a concise two-minute audio segment that delivers a snapshot of the day’s top religion-related news stories from around the world. This engaging feature provides listeners with timely insights into significant developments, cultura
(SRN NEWS)- ( ) A federal judge is siding with a Jewish charter school seeking access to Oklahoma’s public funding. U.S. District Judge David Russell has ruled that the state cannot exclude the National Ben Gamla Jewish Charter School Foundation from funding solely because of its religious character
(SRNN NEWS)-The federal statue outlaws sex discrimination in the schools and was designed to make sure that girls get the opportunity to play sports, amongst other things. The Biden administration decided that lawmakers who passed Title Nine back in 1972 intended it to cover transgenderism, allowing
(SRN NEWS)-Democrat Andy Beshear is considering a run for president in 2028 and a number of party insiders think he’s got a good chance of winning the nomination. But Beshear won’t back down in his support for transgenderism, despite polls that indicate most Americans, including a lot of Democrats,
(SRN NEWS)-The Centre for Social Justice says marriage is good for kids. It has released a study indicating that family stability is greatly enhanced when moms and dads marry because those who do are a lot less likely to split up than those who just live together. The CSJ points out that when parent
By Leo Marchandon and Gianluca Lo Nostro Oct 1 (Reuters) – HyPrSpace has opened its first mass production factory in France, it said on Thursday, targeting 100 rocket engines a year as the French space startup gears up for a planned test flight next year. HyPrSpace is one of several European space s
By Saqib Iqbal Ahmed NEW YORK, Oct 1 (Reuters) – The recent stock market rally has left some systematic trading strategies so heavily exposed to equities that even a modest market pullback could force them to dump billions of dollars of shares, amplifying any potential selloff. Volatility control fu
By Suzanne McGee PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Oct 1 (Reuters) – Investors usually treat quarter-end rebalancing of their portfolios as a routine chore, but the quarter just ended on Wednesday is expected to have seen outsized action after a steep bond selloff left many portfolios out of whack, analysts
Oct 1 (Reuters) – U.S. asset manager Nuveen said on Thursday it had completed its acquisition of British fund manager Schroders, creating a combined company with over $2.6 trillion in assets under management and a presence across more than 40 markets. Schroders will continue to operate separately wi
AMSTERDAM, Oct 1 (Reuters) – The European Commission has suspended its financial aid to Sierra Leone over the country’s refusal to arrest and hand over European cocaine kingpin Jos Leijdekkers, Dutch Justice Minister David van Weel said on Thursday. • The decision to suspend €18 million ($20 million
By Kate Abnett, Jarrett Renshaw and John Irish WASHINGTON/BRUSSELS/PARIS, Oct 1 (Reuters) – The Trump administration has told Germany and France to draw down emergency diesel inventories to help to ease global fuel prices or face a potential US diesel export ban, said three people close to the discu
OSLO, Oct 1 (Reuters) – Nokia and Iceye will develop satellite communications systems for governments and defence contractors, supporting missions from military and border security to emergency services and disaster response, the companies said on Thursday. The partnership will deliver secure, sover
TOKYO, Oct 1 (Reuters) – Japan’s biggest power generator JERA will partner with Dell Technologies and UK-based AI infrastructure developer RHAELM to accelerate the development of AI infrastructure in Japan, the three companies said on Thursday. They signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to deve
BANGKOK, Oct 1 (Reuters) – German chipmaker Infineon Technologies opened a new facility in Thailand on Thursday, as Southeast Asia’s second-largest economy pushes to attract investment into the semiconductor industry amid rising regional competition. • The new facility near Bangkok is a backend manu
Oct 1 (Reuters) – EU officials are questioning crypto platform Binance over its use of a legal exemption to continue serving customers in the region despite an order to wind down its business in the bloc, the Financial Times reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. Reuters could
Sept 30 (Reuters) – China’s Tencent has signed its largest overseas lease deal with US cloud provider Oracle to access about 100,000 advanced AI chips that were not available in China, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. Reuters could not immediately ve
By Che Pan and Eduardo Baptista BEIJING, Oct 1 (Reuters) – Huawei Technologies unveiled its Mate 90 smartphone series on Thursday, betting on its in-house operating system and redesigned chip architecture to boost its performance in the face of US curbs on shipments of advanced semiconductors. Speak
By David Lawder MILWAUKEE, Sept 30 (Reuters) – US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer on Wednesday called for G20 major economies to refrain from coercive actions on food trade, tackle industrial overcapacity and re-examine the prevailing post-World War Two tariff system. In opening remarks to a Gro
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, Sept 30 (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday Israel will get to the “root” of the co-pilot who engaged in a foiled attempt to crash an Israel-bound flydubai flight and that Israel will “possibly” be participating in the probe into the
By Leika Kihara TOKYO, Oct 1 (Reuters) – Factory activity across Asia expanded in September thanks to the global AI boom, private surveys showed on Thursday, offering some relief to policymakers who are concerned about nagging cost pressures attributable to the US-Israeli war on Iran. While a renewe
Sept 30 (Reuters) – AI agents tried to hack into a Canadian government website, an AI research firm said on Wednesday. The agents attempted to access Library and Archives Canada on May 8 and on June 9, AI research firm Transluce said in a blog post. Transluce said it disclosed the attack to the Cana
By Ankur Banerjee SINGAPORE, Oct 1 (Reuters) – Asian technology stocks rose on Thursday boosted by blockbuster earnings from AI chipmaker Micron, although US bonds struggled after their sharpest quarterly selloff in more than three decades as inflation risks from elevated energy prices linger. Stall
Oct 1 (Reuters) – New Zealand’s Parliament was dissolved on Thursday, marking the official start of campaigning for next month’s national election, which is shaping up to be a tight contest between the ruling centre-right coalition and a Labour-led left bloc. Parliament held its final sitting on Sep
By Sethuraman N R and Yuka Obayashi NEW DELHI/TOKYO, Oct 1 (Reuters) – Oil prices fell 1% on Thursday as recovering crude exports from the Gulf and a surprise rise in US inventories eased supply concerns, while investors weighed renewed US-Iran diplomatic efforts to end their conflict in the Middle
By Rae Wee SINGAPORE, Oct 1 (Reuters) – The dollar touched a more than three-month high on Thursday, supported by an extended rise in US Treasury yields that has been partly driven by concerns about persistent global price pressures stemming from the US-Israeli war on Iran. Data showing US inflation
