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CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) — Delta Air Lines is extending its suspension of flights to Tel Aviv, Israel, saying it has halted its service there through March 29, 2024. Atlanta-based Delta previously operated flights to Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport from Atlanta, New York and Boston, but along with other …

CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) — The U.S. military said it shot down 14 drones in the Red Sea launched from Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen as attacks on commercial carriers continue from the Iranian-backed group, threatening havoc for world trade. Major shippers MSC Mediterranean Shipping Co. SA and CMA CG…

(Reuters) — A U.S. appeals court on Friday struck down a Federal Trade Commission order against Illumina’s purchase of cancer diagnostic test maker Grail, a former subsidiary, saying the agency had applied a wrong legal standard. The New Orleans-based panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Ap…

DURHAM, New Hampshire (Reuters) — Donald Trump, the Republican presidential frontrunner, said on Saturday that undocumented immigrants were “poisoning the blood of our country,” repeating language that has previously drawn criticism as xenophobic and echoing of Nazi rhetoric. Trump made…

(Reuters) — Just days after a Federal Reserve meeting that penciled in an ample course of interest rate cuts next year, which in turn unleashed a broad rally in financial markets, one of the U.S. central bank’s top policymakers pushed back on the ebullience on Friday. “We aren’t r…

(Reuters) — The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Friday defended its overhaul of rules for private funds, responding in a court filing to a lawsuit from six private equity and hedge fund trade groups. The trade lobbying groups in September sued the top U.S. markets regulator, saying…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. President Joe Biden’s top economic adviser said on Friday that recent data shows the “width of the runway for a soft landing has gotten much bigger” and that immigration had helped the U.S. labor force rebound. Lael Brainard, head of the White HouseR…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns said on Friday he had started talks with Beijing on renewing a landmark scientific cooperation agreement, and while the deal needed to be modernized, prospects for a new one were uncertain. Controversy over the renewal of the U.S.-China…

NEW YORK (Reuters) — Donald Trump on Friday appealed a gag order restricting the former U.S. president from publicly talking about court staff in his New York civil fraud trial to the state’s highest court. The judge overseeing the case, Justice Arthur Engoron, issued the gag order on Oct. 3 …