NEW YORK (Reuters) – Former movie producer Harvey Weinstein was convicted of sexual assault and rape in a New York court on Monday and taken off to jail in handcuffs, a victory for the #MeToo movement that inspired women to publicly accuse powerful men of misconduct. Once one of Hollywood’s most influential producers, Weinstein, 67,
BEIJING/SEOUL (Reuters) – The coronavirus death toll climbed to seven in Italy on Monday and several Middle East countries were dealing with their first infections, sending markets into a tailspin over fears of a global pandemic even as China eased curbs with no new cases reported in Beijing and other cities. While health experts have
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Harvey Weinstein’s day began with expensive coffee and Acqua Panna mineral water at a breakfast meeting with his lawyers in a Four Seasons hotel near Manhattan’s criminal courts. Film producer Harvey Weinstein arrives at New York Criminal Courtroom during his ongoing sexual assault trial in the Manhattan borough of New York
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A gallery of basketball legends joined thousands of Kobe Bryant fans in Los Angeles on Monday to pay tribute to the transcendent NBA star, his daughter and seven others who died in a helicopter crash last month that shocked the world of sports and beyond. The “Celebration of Life” memorial at
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The widow of Los Angeles basketball great Kobe Bryant filed a wrongful death lawsuit on Monday against the operator of the helicopter that crashed in foggy weather last month, killing her husband, their 13-year-old daughter and all seven others aboard. FILE PHOTO: A man polishes the mural in memory of Kobe
WINNIPEG, Manitoba/OTTAWA (Reuters) – Teck Resources Ltd’s surprise decision to cancel a planned C$20.6 billion ($15.6 billion) oil sands mine in northern Alberta, citing uncertainty about Canada’s climate policy, underscores a global struggle to balance energy growth with environmental concerns. FILE PHOTO: Visitors pass a logo of Teck Resources Ltd mining company during the Prospectors
CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) – Democratic presidential hopeful Michael Bloomberg on Monday clashed with front-runner Bernie Sanders over vandalism at Bloomberg’s Chicago office and their gun control stances, while centrist rival Pete Buttigieg was heckled at a labor march. Democratic U.S. presidential candidate and former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg marches with striking McDonald’s workers while
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Scientists have spotted in rocks from northern China what may be the oldest fossils of a green plant ever found, tiny seaweed that carpeted areas of the seafloor roughly a billion years ago and were part of a primordial revolution among life on Earth. A green seaweed fossil from China dating back
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Trump administration rolled out a new immigration policy on Monday that bars people deemed likely to require government benefits such as housing and food assistance from obtaining permanent residency in the United States. FILE PHOTO: A Mexican Federal Police observes through the border gate as the U.S. Border Patrol agents
BOSTON (Reuters) – The former men’s tennis head coach of the University of Texas at Austin was sentenced on Monday to six months in prison after admitting he accepted $100,000 in bribes as part of a vast U.S. college admissions fraud scheme. Michael Center, the former head coach of the men’s tennis team at the
New York (Reuters) – Wall Street’s three major averages plunged on Monday as investors ran for safety after a surge in coronavirus cases outside China fanned worries about the global economic impact of a potential pandemic. Investors sold riskier assets and rushed to traditionally safer bets such as gold and U.S. Treasuries after countries including
BEIJING/SEOUL (Reuters) – The coronavirus death toll climbed to seven in Italy on Monday and several Middle East countries were dealing with their first infections, sending markets into a tailspin over fears of a global pandemic even as China eased curbs with no new cases reported in Beijing and other cities. The virus had put
FILE PHOTO: A man walks into the JP Morgan at Canary Wharf in London May 11, 2012. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez/File Photo NEW YORK (Reuters) – JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N) executives plan to announce new climate-change initiatives on Tuesday, including restrictions on financing coal mining and Arctic drilling, as well as a $200 billion target to
CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) – Democratic presidential hopeful Mike Bloomberg on Monday called on front-runner Bernie Sanders to denounce vandals who scrawled the word “oligarch” on Bloomberg’s Chicago office, and moderate rival Pete Buttigieg was heckled at a march with labor activists. Democratic U.S. presidential candidate and former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg marches with striking
FILE PHOTO: Supporters laugh as U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Senator Elizabeth Warren holds a “Canvass Kickoff” event at her campaign field office in North Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. February 20, 2020. REUTERS/David Ryder/File Photo WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Turnout for the Nevada Democratic caucuses was 105,195, the Nevada State Democratic Party said on Monday, surpassing the
GENEVA (Reuters) – The coronavirus outbreak can still be beaten, the World Health Organization said on Monday, insisting it was premature to declare it a pandemic even though it had the potential to reach that level. “The key message that should give all countries hope, courage and confidence is that this virus can be contained,