Part of a span of the collapsed bridge in Baltimore, March 26, 2024. US Army Corps of Engineers/Handout via REUTERS |
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- The pilot of the cargo freighter that knocked down a highway bridge into Baltimore Harbor had radioed for tugboat help and reported a power loss minutes earlier, federal safety officials said, citing audio from the ship's "black box" data recorder.
- President Joe Biden will get a boost from Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, along with Stephen Colbert, Lizzo and Queen Latifah, at a New York fundraiser slated to raise more than $25 million and add some oomph to his 2024 re-election campaign.
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- Israeli soldiers have been posting photos and videos of themselves toying with underwear found in Palestinian homes, creating a dissonant visual record of the war in Gaza as a looming famine intensifies world scrutiny of Israel's offensive. Estelle Shirbon joins the Reuters World News podcast with details about the investigation.
- Ireland said it would intervene in South Africa's genocide case against Israel, in the strongest signal to date of Dublin's concern about Israeli operations in Gaza since Oct. 7.
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- Russia has no designs on any NATO country and will not attack Poland, the Baltic states or the Czech Republic but if the West supplies F-16 fighters to Ukraine then they will be shot down by Russian forces, President Vladimir Putin said.
- The Philippines will implement countermeasures proportionate and reasonable against "illegal, coercive, aggressive, and dangerous attacks" by China's coastguard and maritime militia in the South China Sea, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said.
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- The US stock market is off to a soaring start in 2024, as optimism over the economy and interest rate cuts has combined with exuberance about the business opportunity in artificial intelligence to stir up a potent cocktail for equities.
- Sam Bankman-Fried, the former billionaire cryptocurrency wunderkind, is set to be sentenced over his conviction for stealing $8 billion from customers of the now-bankrupt FTX exchange he founded.
- The collapse of Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge is likely to lead to a multi-billion-dollar insurance loss, the chairperson of commercial insurance market Lloyd's of London said.
- China aims to be a strong driving force for the world economic recovery this year, opening its markets wider to foreign investors and promoting high quality growth, the country's top legislator Zhao Leji said.
- Official figures confirmed Britain's economy entered a shallow recession last year, leaving Prime Minister Rishi Sunak with a challenge to reassure voters that the economy is safe with him before an election expected later this year.
- The corporate exodus from Russia since its 2022 invasion of Ukraine has cost foreign companies more than $107 billion in writedowns and lost revenue, a Reuters analysis of company filings and statements showed.
- US intelligence officials in late February told senators working on a biotech security bill that Chinese pharmaceutical firm WuXi AppTec had transferred US intellectual property to Beijing without consent, according to two sources.
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Almost no matter the metric, the US oil and gas industry has flourished under President Joe Biden, even though his administration has pushed hard to transition the US economy toward a carbon-free future to fight climate change. Jarrett Renshaw has been digging into this counterintuitive oil boom and joins the Reuters World News podcast with details. |
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The Event Horizon Telescope collaboration has captured a new view of the massive object at the center of our Galaxy. European Southern Observatory/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo |
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Astronomers announced that they have detected a strong and organized magnetic field twisted in a spiral pattern around the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, revealing previously unknown qualities of the immensely powerful object lurking at the center of our galaxy. |
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