Harvard says federal demands violate academic freedom. REUTERS/Nicholas Pfosi/File Photo |
- Harvard rejected numerous demands from US President Donald Trump's administration that it said would cede control of the school to a conservative government that portrays universities as dangerously leftist. Within hours of Harvard taking its stand, the administration announced it was freezing $2.3 billion in federal funding to the school.
- Correspondent Tom Hals tells the Reuters World News podcast about the next steps in the case of the Maryland man wrongly deported to El Salvador after the country's president, Nayib Bukele, says he will not return him.
- The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's outside expert panel will convene after a nearly two-month delay and expects to review guidelines for several vaccines including recommendations for the next generation of COVID-19 shots. The meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices also plans to discuss the ongoing measles outbreak.
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- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that it was not easy to agree with the US on the key parts of a possible peace deal to end the war in Ukraine and that Russia would never again allow itself to depend economically on the West.
- Several French prisons were attacked overnight in response to government efforts to clamp down on drug trafficking, senior officials said, as authorities grapple with what they have called a "tsunami" of cocaine coming into the country.
- The United Nations human rights office is concerned about the protection of civilians in Lebanon as Israeli military operations have continued to kill civilians since the ceasefire.
- Scientists, consultants and a lawmaker who spoke to Reuters said high visa fees are making it harder to hire global talent to fill Britain's skills gap and undermining efforts to grow the economy.
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- At China's largest trade fair, the first held since Trump slapped tariffs in excess of 100% on China, most exporters Reuters spoke with said US orders have either been delayed or stopped coming. It is a bad sign for the world's second-largest economy, whose growth last year relied heavily on running a trillion-dollar trade surplus.
- Nissan will cut Japanese production of its top-selling US model, the Rogue SUV, over May-July, said a person familiar with the matter, becoming the latest global automaker to alter manufacturing plans in response to new US import tariffs.
- The Trump administration is proceeding with probes into imports of pharmaceuticals and semiconductors as part of a bid to impose tariffs on both sectors on grounds that extensive reliance on foreign production of medicine and chips is a national security threat, Federal Register filings showed.
- LVMH briefly lost its position as Europe's largest luxury company in terms of market capitalization after being overtaken by rival Hermes on investor pessimism after disappointing first-quarter revenue from the sector bellwether. Watch our daily rundown on financial markets.
- JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon has sold about $31.5 million worth of the bank's shares, according to a regulatory filing. Dimon had also offloaded some shares last year in his first such sale since taking over the top role in 2005.
- Britain said it could keep the country's last steel blast furnaces burning for at least the next few weeks after securing a delivery of fuel – the latest step in a last-gasp government scramble to save domestic virgin steel production.
- The world's dominant currency has survived devaluation, inflation, war, and many crises. Trump's return raises new doubts. In this episode of The Big View podcast, Paul Blustein talks about the secrets of the greenback's success and what could end its reign.
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A Reuters investigation has found that huge amounts of North Korean arms, combined with manpower, gave Russia a critical battlefield advantage in the war against Ukraine. North Korea's involvement in Ukraine has alarmed not only European capitals but also South Korea and its allies in Asia. |
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Barbie collector Noemi de Lama, known as 'Mistik', sits at her home in Gijon, northern Spain, April 12, 2025. REUTERS/Vincent West/ File Photo |
Surrounded by hundreds of Barbies at her home in the northern Spanish port of Gijon, TikTok influencer and collector Noemi de Lama has shared the news with her followers that US tariffs are likely to drive up the price of their favorite dolls. |
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