(Bloomberg) — Brazil’s state-controlled oil giant Petrobras is curbing politically charged dividends after reporting lower profits. Most Read from Bloomberg Petrobras’s board approved 1.04 reais a share, or 13.45 billion reais ($2.6 billion), in dividends for the first quarter, it said in a regulatory filing Monday. Analysts were expecting $3.2 billion, according to the average […]
BROCKTON — Four Brockton School Committee members set off a national firestorm by requesting that Massachusetts National Guard soldiers be deployed to Brockton High School — a school that has a student population that’s 63% Black and 85% students of color, according to Brockton Public Schools Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion. “The historical overtones […]
Michigan Republicans are gathering in Grand Rapids for a convention they hope will be less fraught than the last four months of chaotic power struggle within the state Republican party. During Saturday’s convention, the party will choose most of the delegates it will send to the Republican national convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in July to […]
By Ange Kasongo and Djaffar Al Katanty KINSHASA/GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) – Voters in Democratic Republic of Congo take part in a general election on Wednesday after a chaotic campaign marred by opposition allegations of impending fraud, electoral violence, and logistical setbacks that could prevent many from voting. For months, the CENI election […]