SAN FRANCISCO, April 7 (Reuters) - Verizon Communications Inc is ready to make a bid for Yahoo's web business, and hopes to make a merger more successful by also making an offer for a stake in Yahoo's Japan subsidiary, Bloomberg reported on Thursday, citing a source familiar with the matter.
BELGRADE (Reuters) - Euroleague holders Real Madrid and arch-rivals Barcelona secured knockout stage berths after impressive wins in the final round of the competition's second group stage on Thursday.
WASHINGTON, April 7 (Reuters) - Federal regulators' decision to designate insurer MetLife Inc as "too big to fail" was "arbitrary and capricious," the U.S. judge who struck down the determination last month wrote in an opinion that was unsealed on Thursday.
PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) - The U.S. military on Thursday christened an experimental self-driving warship designed to hunt for enemy submarines, a major advance in robotic warfare at the core of America's strategy to counter Chinese and Russian naval investments.
Wall Street dropped on worries about global economic risks and the outlook for earnings. Fred Katayama reports.
Wall Street dropped on worries about global economic risks and the outlook for earnings. Fred Katayama reports.
Wall Street dropped on worries about global economic risks and the outlook for earnings. Fred Katayama reports.
Wall Street dropped on worries about global economic risks and the outlook for earnings. Fred Katayama reports.
ATHENS (Reuters) - Migrants held on the Greek islands Lesbos and Chios live in "appalling" conditions with little access to legal aid or information about their fate under a European Union agreement that will send some back to Turkey, Amnesty International said on Thursday.
On Saturday, at 3:30 a.m. — three-and-a-half hours before the sun rises — Hailey Sweatman will wake up in the pitch dark of the morning.
REYKJAVIK (Reuters) - Icelanders, not satisfied with the departure of the prime minister and a promise to hold elections this autumn, took to the streets again on Thursday to demand the government quit over the Panama Papers leaks.
NEW YORK, April 7 (Reuters) - Until last week, high school senior Alex Gomez was missing a key piece in his puzzle-like plan to pay college tuition next year to the University of Colorado.
COLUMBIA — Gov. Nikki Haley singled out the state’s second-in-command leader Thursday — Lt. Gov. Henry McMaster — for striking down an ethics reform bill amendment that would require elected officials to disclose their private sources of income.
COLUMBIA — Gov. Nikki Haley singled-out the state’s second-in-command leader Thursday — Lt. Gov. Henry McMaster — for striking down an ethics reform bill amendment that would require elected officials to disclose their private sources of income.
President Obama returned to the University of Chicago Law School where he once taught to make the case for his Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
President Obama returned to the University of Chicago Law School where he once taught to make the case for his Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
April 7 (Reuters) - South Carolina lawmakers have introduced a measure that would require transgender people to use public bathrooms matching their sex at birth, disregarding a growing outcry for a repeal of a similar provision enacted last month in North Carolina.
"I knew that I was making images unlike anything I had seen before."
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(Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a tissue container bag for use in certain laparoscopic procedures along with power morcellators, that have been linked to the spread of cancer in women.
(Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a tissue container bag for use in certain laparoscopic procedures along with power morcellators, that have been linked to the spread of cancer in women.
(Reuters) - An advisory panel to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday unanimously backed the accelerated approval of Intercept Pharmaceuticals Inc's drug to treat a rare liver condition.