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Soaring costs, loss of benefits top Americans' healthcare worries: Reuters/Ipsos poll
(Reuters) - For over a year now, Americans have listed healthcare as the most important problem facing the country, according to Reuters/Ipsos polling.
Futures slide as U.S. readies China tariffs
(Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures fell on Friday as the Trump administration prepared to impose tariffs on Chinese goods worth $50 billion that could trigger a countermove from Beijing and escalate trade tensions between the two largest economies.
Brexit law compromise respects plans to leave EU - PM May's spokeswoman
LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Theresa May's government's new amendment to her Brexit blueprint on giving parliament a greater role on the exit process respects the public's desire to leave the European Union, her spokeswoman said o...
Former Trump campaign chief Manafort to ask judge not to jail him
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort is set to ask a federal judge on Friday not to revoke his bail and send him to jail pending trial after Special Counsel Robert Mueller filed new charges of wi...
Stocks fall, dollar hits seven-month high as U.S. readies China tariffs
LONDON (Reuters) - World shares fell and were set to end the week in the red on Friday while the dollar climbed to a seven-month high, as investors braced for a list of Chinese goods targeted in a first round of announced tariffs by the United States...
As trade war with China looms, U.S. readies second wave of duties
BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has nearly completed a second list of tariffs on $100 billion in Chinese goods, as President Donald Trump prepares to enact an initial round of duties that is expected to trigger an in-kind response fr...
UK to use 'Brexit dividend' to boost health spending by £4 billion - Daily Telegraph
LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Theresa May will increase spending on Britain's state-run National Health Service (NHS) by 4 billion pounds a year, funded by borrowing, income tax and a "Brexit dividend", the Daily Telegraph newspape...
Trump approves disaster aid for Hawaii's volcano-stricken Big Island
HONOLULU (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday approved federal emergency housing aid and other relief for victims of the six-week-old Kilauea Volcano eruption on Hawaii's Big Island, where hundreds of homes have been destroyed, st...
Asian shares falter as U.S. readies China tariffs, euro at two-week low on ECB
TOKYO (Reuters) - Asian shares wobbled on Friday as investors braced for U.S. tariffs against China, while the euro flirted with two-week lows after a cautious European Central Bank indicated it would not raise interest rates for some time.
Report rebukes Comey, but says no bias in Clinton email case
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former FBI Director James Comey made a "serious error of judgment" when he announced shortly before the 2016 U.S. presidential election that he was reopening an investigation into candidate Hillary Clinton's use...
Report rebukes Comey, but says no bias in Clinton email case
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former FBI Director James Comey made a "serious error of judgment" when he announced shortly before the 2016 U.S. presidential election that he was reopening an investigation into candidate Hillary Clinton's use...
Trump ready to impose tariffs on about $50 billion in Chinese goods: official
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Trump has made up his mind to impose "pretty significant" tariffs on Chinese goods, an administration official said on Thursday, as Beijing warned that it was ready to respond if Washington chose to rat...
AT&T closes $85 billion deal for Time Warner
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - AT&T Inc, the No. 2 wireless carrier, on Thursday closed its $85 billion deal to acquire media company Time Warner Inc after it reached an agreement with U.S. antitrust regulators.
Pompeo says North Korea sanctions to remain until complete denuclearisation
SEOUL/BEIJING (Reuters) - Tough sanctions will remain on North Korea until its complete denuclearisation, the U.S. secretary of state said on Thursday, apparently contradicting the North's view that the process agreed at this week's summit...
Nasdaq hits new closing high, S&P 500 gains after ECB decision, U.S. data
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The S&P 500 edged up and the Nasdaq reached another record closing high on Thursday after the European Central Bank said it would avoid raising interest rates until mid-2019, and data showed U.S. economic strength.
May's Brexit compromise hits snag, wrangling to continue
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May failed on Thursday to win around pro-EU lawmakers in her party over parliament's role in the Brexit process, raising the risk of defeat in lower house votes next week.
S&P 500, Nasdaq edge higher as ECB puts off rate hike
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The S&P 500 and Nasdaq rose on Thursday after the European Central Bank said it would not raise interest rates until mid-2019, a day after the U.S. Federal Reserve increased its key rate and hinted at two more hikes by the en...
New York sues Trump and his charity over 'self-dealing'
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York state attorney general sued U.S. President Donald Trump, three of his children and his foundation on Thursday, saying he illegally used the nonprofit as a personal "checkbook" for his own benefit, including...
S&P inches higher as ECB signals gradual rate hikes
(Reuters) - U.S. stocks ticked higher on Thursday, after the European Central Bank signaled that any interest rate hike was still far away, even as it moved to end its 2.55 trillion euro stimulus program by the end of the year.
Government has changed position on Brexit law compromise - MP
LONDON (Reuters) - Pro-EU MP Anna Soubry said on Thursday the government had changed its position after agreeing a compromise deal on handing parliament a "meaningful vote" on any Brexit deal, and that the new proposal had not been agreed b...