(Reuters) – Chinese regulators have asked the country’s banks to lower the rates they pay to deposits from other financial institutions to free up funds to boost the economy, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. China’s interest rate self-disciplinary mechanism, a supervisory body overseen by the central bank, said banks […]
Special counsel Jack Smith on Thursday asked a judge to decline to take up former President Trump’s latest bid to toss his Jan. 6 election interference case by arguing Smith was unlawfully appointed. It’s the second time Trump’s team has made such an argument, and it was initially successful in his Florida classified documents case,…
Gerard Depardieu has asked for a postponement to his sexual assault trial that is set to begin in Paris on Monday, citing health reasons. According to the French news agency AFP, Depardieu’s lawyer Jeremie Assous told FranceInfo that the actor is “extremely affected and unfortunately his doctors have forbidden him from being present at the […]
With 13 days to go until the election, Kamala Harris laid out in the starkest terms possible the choice Americans face when they head to the ballot box in less than two weeks: They can vote to elect a man who thinks Adolph Hilter is someone to emulate, or they can vote for a woman […]
The ruling, which Google has appealed, would force Google to distribute third-party app stores within Google Play, no longer require Google Play Billing for apps distributed via Google Play, and more, with many of those changes ordered to begin on November 1st — just over two weeks from today. But echoing many of Google’s arguments […]
Interpol Interpol has launched a campaign to identify a number of dead women A pair of red shoes, two beaded necklaces and a British 10p coin are among the few clues that could help to identify a teenage girl found murdered in western France more than 40 years ago. Her death is one of 46 […]
Ellen DeGeneres wants us to forgive her. That’s the TL;DR version of her new stand-up comedy special, For Your Approval, now streaming on Netflix. DeGeneres doesn’t try to disguise this transparent attempt to repair her reputation, which was shattered in 2020 by reports that her popular daytime talk show was a toxic workplace, allegedly teeming […]
