By Joseph Ax Oct 1 (Reuters) – Some New York lawmakers are urging a revamp of the state’s sexual assault statutes to make it easier to prosecute cases involving intoxicated victims, following renewed outrage over an alleged 2024 gang rape at a Cornell University fraternity…
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…
By Alexandra Alper WASHINGTON, Oct 1 (Reuters) – A Democratic lawmaker is warning that Beijing could steal AI model weights developed by OpenAI, Anthropic and other top US firms, erasing the US edge over China in the AI race and posing a risk to US national…
By Mireia Merino MADRID, Oct 1 (Reuters) – Spain’s King Felipe will visit the disputed North African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla this month, sources in the royal household said on Thursday, a move that could further strain tense relations between Madrid and Rabat following…
By Bo Erickson WASHINGTON, Oct 1 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump travels to Texas and Oklahoma on Thursday to begin a 32-day campaign blitz aimed at bolstering Republican candidates as his party fights to hold onto its slim congressional majorities in November’s midterm elections. Trump…
By Dawn Kopecki NEW YORK, Oct 1 (Reuters) – A super PAC backed by billionaire Ken Griffin has spent nearly $5 million on Florida’s US Senate race to bolster Republican candidate Ashley Moody, a sign that major donors and party leaders are scrambling to defend…
PHOENIX, Oct 1 (Reuters) – On Phoenix campaign signs, Arizona-wide TV ads and in debates for key US House races, one issue has bubbled to the top of politics in this drought-hit state: Water. Governor Katie Hobbs, a Democrat seeking reelection in the November 3…
By Saeed Azhar, Max A. Cherney, Isla Binnie and Stephen Nellis NEW YORK, Oct 1 (Reuters) – Nvidia’s mammoth financing plan has opened a debate on Wall Street about how much its advanced chips and the infrastructure around them are worth. The answer for banks…
By Maayan Lubell and Eman Abouhassira JERUSALEM/DUBAI, Oct 1 (Reuters) – Questions loomed on Thursday over the motives and background of a co-pilot who stabbed the captain of a passenger jet on its way to Israel, in what Israeli officials have said was an apparent attempt…
By Ian Ransom NAGOYA, Japan, Oct 1 (Reuters) – Alex Eala’s hopes of a maiden Asian Games gold medal and qualification for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics tennis tournament were crushed on Thursday as China’s unheralded Wang Xiyu rallied to a 3-6 6-3 6-2 win over…
