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Delta jets have ‘low-speed collision’ on the ground at New York’s LaGuardia, injuring 1

NEW YORK (AP) — Two Delta Air Lines regional jets collided Wednesday night while on the taxiway at LaGuardia Airport in New York, injuring at least one person in what the airline described as a “low-speed collision.” The wing of ...
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Morning Bid: Darkness falls on dour US jobs market

A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Kevin Buckland Investors already knew the U.S. labour market needed support, but there is something particularly ominous in the miserable ADP employment report delivered to the market just ...
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Alibaba mapping logs record for daily users on first day of China holiday

HONG KONG (Reuters) -Alibaba’s mapping app Amap recorded more than 360 million daily active users on the first day of China’s eight-day National Day holiday on Wednesday, setting an all-time high for the platform, the company said in a ...
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Trump uses government shutdown to dole out firings and political punishment

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has seized on the government shutdown as an opportunity to reshape the federal workforce and punish detractors, by threatening mass firings of workers and suggesting “irreversible” cuts to programs important to Democrats. Rather than ...
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Everybody in Washington hates a shutdown. Until you’re pushing for one

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government had shut down, and Donald Trump was calling on Democrats and Republicans to work together to get out of the mess. “You have to get people in a room, and you have to just ...
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In Black columnist’s firing, advocates fear decreasing diversity, vital perspectives in news media

As the founding global opinion editor for The Washington Post, Karen Attiah believed her job had always been about assessing world affairs in a way that elevated a diverse range of perspectives. “I’m not just a columnist,” she recently said. But ...
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Dollar gains as Supreme Court allows Fed’s Cook to stay in job for now

By Gregor Stuart Hunter SINGAPORE (Reuters) -The U.S. dollar regained its footing in early Asian trading on Thursday after the U.S. Supreme Court said it would hear arguments in January over President Donald Trump’s attempt to remove Federal Reserve Governor ...
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White House sets hiring, foreign enrolment terms for colleges to get funding advantage, WSJ reports

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump’s administration has asked U.S. colleges to sign a deal on certain terms to get preferential access to federal funds, the Wall Street Journal reported late on Wednesday, citing a 10-point memo. An initial round of ...
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Oil rebounds from 16-week lows on prospects of tighter Russian crude sanctions

By Yuka Obayashi TOKYO (Reuters) -Oil prices rose on Thursday, snapping a three-day losing streak and rebounding from 16-week lows on prospects of tighter sanctions on Russian crude, though expectations of higher supply from an OPEC+ output boost next month ...
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Australia trade surplus shrinks sharply as gold exports dive

SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia’s surplus on goods trade shrank sharply in August as shipments of gold plunged after a run of strong months, data showed on Thursday, while imports were up across the board. The Australian Bureau of Statistics reported the ...
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Tech leads Asia share rally, gold near record high on Fed rate cut bets

By Kevin Buckland TOKYO (Reuters) -Tech shares rallied on Thursday, driving Asia stock indexes higher, while gold hovered near a record high and the dollar languished as a weak U.S. labour market report bolstered bets for Federal Reserve interest rate ...
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US energy department cancels $7.6 billion in funding meant for projects

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Energy on Wednesday said it planned to cancel $7.56 billion in financing for hundreds of energy projects that it said would not provide sufficient returns to taxpayers. The department’s announcement came hours after White ...
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