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  • Reuters

    WRAPUP 1-US core capital goods orders rise slightly in March

    New orders for key U.S.-manufactured capital goods increased moderately in March and data for the prior month was revised lower, suggesting that business spending on equipment likely remained weak in the first quarter. The report from the Commerce Department on Wednesday was published ahead of the release on Thursday of the government's advance estimate of gross domestic product for the January-March quarter. The economy is expected to have delivered another quarter of strong performance, thanks to a resilient labor market that is driving consumer spending.

  • Reuters

    Poland's Tusk reaches for big-hitters in European election fight

    Three ministers from the largest party in Poland's government will stand in European parliament elections, officials said, as Prime Minister Donald Tusk urged Poles to vote in a ballot he labelled one of the most important in decades. The elections in June provide Tusk's Civic Coalition (KO) with another chance to cement their place as Poland's dominant political force after they failed to knock nationalist rivals Law and Justice (PiS) off the top spot in local elections this month. PiS were the largest party in the local elections and in a general election in October, though they lost their majority to a broad pro-European coalition led by Tusk that vowed to reverse democratic backsliding, boost the rights of women and minorities and repair ties with Poland's Western allies.

  • Associated Press

    Teen charged in mass shooting at LGBTQ+ friendly punk rock show in Minneapolis

    A teenage suspect who allegedly made derogatory remarks about LGBTQ+ people before opening fire at a backyard punk rock show faces seven felony charges for a shooting that killed one person and injured six others in Minneapolis. The document charging Dominic James Burris and another man says the shooting was motivated by bias against the victims’ gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression. “Witnesses identified the shooters as two males who were not part of the community, but who had come to the concert and interacted with multiple people in the minutes before the shooting.”