Wall Street’s main indexes gained on Monday as recent hostilities between the U.S. and Iran eased, while Comcast shares soared on plans to split into two companies.
Italy and the Balkans felt the impact of a record-breaking heatwave that has caused hundreds of excess deaths and disrupted daily life across the continent for more than a week, with growing concerns over the spread of wildfires.
Residents of Caracas woke up to an aftershock that rocked their houses, while rescue teams continued their fourth day of round-the-clock work in the areas affected by last week’s powerful earthquakes in Venezuela.
A security deal between Israel and Lebanon risks entrenching a stalemate rather than resolving Israel’s underlying conflict with Hezbollah by tying Israel’s pullout from southern Lebanon to the Iran-aligned group’s disarmament, a condition regional analysts and politicians say is unattainable.
The U.S. Supreme Court backed on Monday state laws that allow mail-in ballots received after Election Day to be counted, rejecting a Republican-led challenge to a five-day grace period in Mississippi and dealing a setback to President Donald Trump.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday backed Donald Trump’s firing of a Democratic Federal Trade Commission member, expanding his powers over the government and overturning its 1935 precedent that had recognized the authority of Congress to protect leaders of certain regulatory agencies from presidential removal at will.
Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook was the first U.S. central banker to be targeted for firing by any president. She is no stranger to being first, or to being targeted.
The U.S. Supreme Court refused on Monday to let Donald Trump fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook as it stood firm to preserve the central bank’s cherished independence against an unprecedented challenge by the Republican president.
The Supreme Court declined to hear Trump’s bid to overturn a $5 million verdict in favor of E. Jean Carroll in a case in which a jury found him liable for sexually abusing the former magazine columnist and then defaming her.
Five people were shot and killed in a town in northern Germany on Monday, and police said they had detained two individuals, including the suspected shooter.