Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Japan manufacturing expands as orders rise fastest since 2018, PMI shows
TOKYO, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Japan's manufacturing sector expanded in August as new orders rose at their fastest pace since January 2018, a business survey showed on Friday. The S&P Global Flash Japan Ma...
Thomson Reuters Aug 20, 2026
US teen drops lawsuit against Meta, Google and Snap ahead of trial
By Diana Novak Jones Aug 20 (Reuters) - A teen girl whose lawsuit was a test case in litigation accusing social media companies of deliberately addicting young people and fueling a mental health crisi...
Thomson Reuters Aug 20, 2026
Democratic California state legislator Wahab wins US House of Representatives seat
By Richard Cowan and Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, Aug 20 (Reuters) - Democrat Aisha Wahab, a member of the California state Senate, was projected on Thursday to win a special election to fill a vacant s...
Thomson Reuters Aug 20, 2026
China hunts for lunar ice in one of solar system's coldest places
By Ethan Wang, Shi Bu and Ryan Woo BEIJING, Aug 21 (Reuters) - China is poised to launch Chang'e-7, its most technologically complex lunar mission to date, in its search for frozen stores of water in ...
Thomson Reuters Aug 20, 2026
US says it will impose 'toughest sanctions in history' on Iran
By Jana Choukeir and Susan Heavey DUBAI/WASHINGTON, Aug 21 (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury chief Scott Bessent said the United States will impose "the toughest sanctions in history" on Iran, a move he sugge...
Thomson Reuters Aug 20, 2026
Japan's core inflation accelerates in July, bolsters case for rate hike
By Leika Kihara TOKYO, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Japan's core consumer inflation accelerated in July from a year earlier as firms passed on rising import costs from a weak yen and the U.S.-Israeli war with I...
Thomson Reuters Aug 20, 2026
DOJ seeks to question FBI officials tied to search of Trump Mar-a-Lago estate, sources say
By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON, Aug 20 (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department has requested to interview FBI officials who were involved in the 2022 search of Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Flor...
Thomson Reuters Aug 20, 2026
Cowboys, Saints each fined $500K for brawling at joint practice
The NFL fined the Dallas Cowboys and New Orleans Saints $500,000 apiece following multiple fights at their joint practice session on Tuesday in Oxnard, Calif., the league announced. "The competition c...
Thomson Reuters Aug 20, 2026
Japan July core CPI rises 1.8% yr/yr
(Corrects paragraph 3 percentage rise to 1.9%, not 1.8%) TOKYO, Aug 21 (Reuters) - - Japan's core consumer prices rose 1.8% in July from a year earlier, government data showed on Friday. The core cons...
Thomson Reuters Aug 20, 2026
UK consumer confidence jumps to two-year high, GfK says
Aug 21 (Reuters) - British consumer morale jumped to a two-year high this month as households became more confident about making major purchases, a survey showed on Friday that added to a run of unexp...
Thomson Reuters Aug 20, 2026
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