(Reuters) – Donald Trump’s lawyers on Monday will try to persuade a federal judge to throw out a series of lawsuits by Democratic lawmakers and two police officers alleging that the former president incited the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol.Slideshow ( 2 images )The three lawsuits, by Democratic U.S. representatives including Eric Swalwell and Jerry Nadler, […]

FILE PHOTO: U.S. Senator John Thune (R-S.D.) questions Deputy Treasury Secretary nominee Adewale Adeyemo during his Senate Finance Committee nomination hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 23, 2021. Greg Nash/Pool via REUTERSWASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Republican Senator John Thune announced on Saturday that he planned to seek re-election in 2022, boosting chances this his party would retain the South Dakota […]

Treasuries moved to the downside during trading on Thursday, extending the sell-off seen throughout the New Year. Bond prices moved lower early in the session and remained stuck in the red throughout the day. As a result, the yield on the benchmark ten-year note, which moves opposite of its price, rose by 2.8 basis points to 1.733 percent. The ten-year […]

By Clancy Yeates “When I first took on the role, it really felt like walking into a wall of fire,” says former Queensland premier Anna Bligh, recounting her move to the corporate world. We are overlooking Sydney’s Balmoral beach on a warm December day and Bligh is talking about her 2017 move to a job representing Australia’s banks at a […]

Hong Kong (CNN Business)Stocks in Asia Pacific were unsteady Thursday after a major sell-off on Wall Street, as investors continued to grapple with Omicron headlines and concerns that the US Federal Reserve may need to take a more hawkish stance in the coming months. Some markets in the region fell sharply, with Japan’s benchmark Nikkei (N225) and Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 […]

Markets kicked off the New Year with a bang, each of the major averages was posting a solid gain for the day. Typically the first trading week of the year is fairly positive. Over the past 13 years, the S&P 500 has ended this week on a positive note 12 times. Investors are also looking forward to Friday to see […]

KHARTOUM (Reuters) -Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok said on Sunday he was resigning, six weeks after returning to his post in a deal with military coup leaders he argued could save a transition toward democracy. Hamdok, who had failed to name a government as protests continued against the military takeover in October, said a roundtable discussion was needed to produce […]

(Reuters) -Top U.S. infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci said there was still a danger of a surge in hospitalization due to a large number of coronavirus cases even as early data suggests the Omicron COVID-19 variant is less severe.FILE PHOTO: Dr. Anthony Fauci speaks about the Omicron coronavirus variant during a press briefing at the White House in Washington, U.S., […]