By Doyinsola Oladipo NEW YORK (Reuters) - A major U.S. hotel owners association said its Wyndham Hotels & Resorts franchisee members are worried an acquisition by budget operator Choice Hotels International could hurt their business. Choice on Tuesday launched a…
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin, asked on Thursday about a possible prisoner swap for the Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and U.S. Marine veteran Paul Whelan, said he hoped an agreement would be reached, but that the…
By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) -A U.S. labor agency is seeking to force Starbucks Corp to reopen 23 stores that were allegedly shuttered last year to discourage a nationwide union campaign, the latest case to accuse the coffee chain of illegal…
By Scott DiSavino NEW YORK (Reuters) -Oil prices edged up about 1% on Wednesday from a five-month low in the prior session on a bigger-than-expected weekly withdrawal from U.S. crude storage and on worries about the security of Middle East…
By Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vice President Kamala Harris will host 100 Democratic state legislators from 39 states at the White House on Wednesday, as the Biden administration searches for ways to curb the country's growing gun deaths. The…
MILAN (Reuters) -Vacation rental platform Airbnb said on Wednesday it would pay 576 million euros ($621 million) to the Italian Revenue Agency to settle outstanding income tax obligations for the 2017-2021 tax years. Airbnb, which has its European headquarters in…
By Bansari Mayur Kamdar (Reuters) - The retail sector could continue to lead U.S. bankruptcies next year due to sticky inflation and high interest rates, but analysts expect easing monetary policy to offer some respite in the second half of…
By Jonathan Stempel and Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Donald Trump cannot assert presidential immunity from a defamation lawsuit by writer E. Jean Carroll, who accused him of rape, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Wednesday, dealing the former U.S.…
By Tom Wilson and Poppy McPherson (Reuters) - The United States has seized digital currency worth about half a million dollars from an account registered to a Chinese man who featured in a Reuters investigation into crypto-investment fraud run from…
By Greg Bensinger and Mike Scarcella (Reuters) -"Fortnite" maker Epic Games has prevailed in its high-profile antitrust trial over Alphabet's Google, which alleged the Play app store operated as an illegal monopoly, in a ruling that if it holds could…