Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Make it stop! Voters in US swing states frazzled by ads blitz
By Costas Pitas (Reuters) - Libby Brouwer was so fed up with political advertisements interrupting her YouTube viewing in the battleground state of Michigan that she opted to pay $13.99 per month to g...
Oct 30, 2024
Director Steve McQueen shows war through child's eyes in new film 'Blitz'
By Hanna Rantala LONDON (Reuters) - Oscar winner Steve McQueen had long wanted to make a movie about the Blitz - Germany's wartime aerial bombing of British cities - but it was seeing a photo of a Bla...
Oct 30, 2024
US shippers avoid East Coast ports on risk of second strike
By Lisa Baertlein, Doyinsola Oladipo and Jessica DiNapoli (Reuters) - U.S. shippers are steering clear of East and Gulf Coast ports amid worries the 45,000 dockworkers at those trade hubs will go on s...
Oct 30, 2024
In U.S. swing states, officials brace for conspiracy theories and violence
DETROIT (Reuters) - With the U.S. election days just away, officials in the most competitive battleground states are bracing for misinformation, conspiracy theories, threats and possible violence. In ...
Oct 30, 2024
Lawn-sign wars: US voters use trackers, cameras to deter political theft
By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Tired of her Kamala Harris signs disappearing from her Springfield, Missouri, front yard, Laura McCaskill taped a tracking device to one to see where it might e...
Oct 30, 2024
Bankman-Fried's ex-deputy Singh to be sentenced over crypto fraud
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former cryptocurrency executive Nishad Singh is set to be sentenced on Wednesday for his role in his imprisoned former boss Sam Bankman-Fried's theft of about $8 bill...
Oct 30, 2024
Explainer-Who in the US benefits from $35 insulin?
By Ahmed Aboulenein WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vice President Kamala Harris on the campaign trail has frequently touted capping the price of insulin at $35 a month as a major accomplishment of the Biden a...
Oct 30, 2024
China's big banks post rise in Q3 profits, squeeze on NIM
BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) -China's largest lenders posted a rise in third-quarter profits on Wednesday, although margins were slimmer for some. The frontrunner was Agricultural Bank of China Ltd (AgB...
Oct 30, 2024
Volvo Cars seeks to oust Northvolt from EV battery venture
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Volvo Cars said on Wednesday it will invoke a right to acquire Northvolt's shares in their Swedish battery joint venture, NOVO Energy, after Northvolt decided to no longer provid...
Oct 30, 2024
Stellantis to recall over 33,000 Ram trucks, NHTSA says
(Reuters) - Chrysler parent Stellantis will recall about 33,777 Ram 1500 pickup trucks in the U.S., over a concern related to the electronic stability control system, the National Highway Traffic Safe...
Oct 30, 2024
