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US regulator withdraws appeal of rule on Treasury markets

By Carolina Mandl NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has decided to withdraw its appeal of a decision by a federal judge late last year to vacate an overhaul of Treasury dealer rules, according to a court document filed on Wednesday. In a statement, the SEC said it decided to dismiss the […]

Business & Finance

DOJ drops appeal against co-defendants

Walt Nauta, personal aide to former U.S. President Donald Trump who faces charges of being Trump’s co-conspirator in the alleged mishandling of classified documents, walks with Trump during a LIV Golf Pro-Am golf tournament at the Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia, U.S. May 25, 2023. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters The Department of Justice […]

World News

17 men appeal against convictions

EPA Gisèle Pelicot attended court for most of the 15-week trial Dominique Pelicot, the 72-year-old man who drugged and raped his wife Gisèle and recruited dozens of men to rape her over a decade, will not appeal against his 20-year jail sentence, his lawyer Béatrice Zavarro said. However, 17 of the 49 men who were […]

Sports

Rodrigo Bentancur ban: Tottenham appeal denied by FA

Rodrigo Bentancur must serve his seven-game ban for comments he made about teammate Son Heung-Min. Visionhaus/Getty Images The Football Association have dismissed Tottenham’s appeal against Rodrigo Bentancur‘s seven-game suspension for using racist language in a television interview. Bentancur has already served five matches of the seven-game sanction and will now be out for Thursday’s Carabao […]

Politics

Supreme Court to decide if California zero-emissions goal can be challenged

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court opened the door Friday for a potential challenge to California’s long-standing authority to set stricter emissions limits for new vehicles, including its “zero emissions” goal for 2035. The justices voted to hear an appeal from oil and bio-fuel producers who sued the Environmental Protection Agency, arguing it had given California too […]

Science

Hubble Captures an Edge-On Spiral with Curve Appeal

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a spiral galaxy, named UGC 10043. We don’t see the galaxy’s spiral arms because we are seeing it from the side. Located roughly 150 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Serpens, UGC 10043 is one of the somewhat rare spiral galaxies that we see edge-on. This edge-on […]