12+ hour, 21+ min ago   (269+ words) SEOUL, Sept 13 (Reuters) – South Korea’s expanded espionage law takes effect on Sunday, broadening espionage offences beyond acts involving North Korea to include all foreign countries as Seoul seeks to protect key technologies ​amid intensifying competition in semiconductors and other strategic…...

21+ hour, 7+ min ago   (495+ words) Sept 12 (Reuters) – A U.S. judge has ruled that the Trump administration broke the law by ordering the Federal Emergency Management Agency to cut its workforce in half. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston in San Francisco in a decision issued late Friday,…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (458+ words) BOSTON, Sept 11 (Reuters) – A federal judge on Friday blocked U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration from continuing to ask applicants for civil service jobs throughout the government to respond to what unions described as a partisan “loyalty question.” U.S. District…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (242+ words) Sept 10 (Reuters) – A Texas judge ruled on Thursday that TikTok violated the state’s consumer protection law by misleading users about how ​it filtered content for minors and whether ‌its “Restricted Mode” feature shielded children from inappropriate material. • Texas sued TikTok…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (427+ words) WASHINGTON, Sept 10 (Reuters) – A U.S. prosecutor who has been overseeing a wide-ranging probe into past investigations of President Donald Trump told Reuters on Thursday that he has resigned. Joseph diGenova’s departure injects uncertainty into an investigation ​that has been scrutinizing several…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (194+ words) WASHINGTON, Sept 9 (Reuters) – Three U.S. lawmakers have called on the American government to blacklist a set of Indian IT firms over what they describe as “more than fifteen years ​of targeted espionage against U.S. citizens, businesses, and the lawyers…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (598+ words) WASHINGTON, Sept 10 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s administration has brought a number of high-profile cases, some of which have been dropped, dismissed or blocked by judges or juries. Here are some of the cases. The Justice Department dropped its case against…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (310+ words) By Pete Schroeder and Michelle Price WASHINGTON, Sept 10 (Reuters) – Better Markets, a Washington nonprofit that advocates for Wall Street reforms, sued the U.S. Federal Reserve on Thursday, alleging the central bank has broken federal ​rules in its handling of a…...

3+ day, 30+ min ago   (272+ words) LONDON, Sept 10 (Reuters) – A British man appeared in a London court on Thursday accused of providing information about factories which manufacture ​drones and offering to sabotage them on behalf ‌of Russian intelligence. Joshua Cammidge, 31, has been charged with assisting a…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (227+ words) QUITO, Sept 10 (Reuters) – An Ecuadorean court sentenced former President Abdala Bucaram to nine years and four months ​of imprisonment on Wednesday for his involvement ‌in a criminal organization that fraudulently sold medical supplies during the COVID-19 pandemic. Bucaram, 74, who was…...