Reuters

By Will Dunham

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Stars about the size of our sun are not the most common ones in the Milky Way. Much smaller stars are way more common - and those host the most rocky planets in the galaxy, the type in focus as scientists search for worlds capable of harboring life.

New research is providing insight into how planets form around these small stars, called very low mass stars (VLMS), showing how the chemistry in the... (continue reading...)

ZURICH (Reuters) - A group of Credit Suisse bondholders holding $82 million worth of the failed bank's Additional Tier 1 (AT1) debt have filed a lawsuit against Switzerland seeking compensation, U.S. court filings on Thursday showed.

Credit Suisse collapsed in 2023 and was taken over by rival UBS in a rescue orchestrated by Swiss authorities. As part of that operation, Swiss regulator FINMA wrote down about $17 billion of Credit Suisse's AT1s, angering... (continue reading...)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden said on Thursday he would not pardon his son Hunter, who is on trial in Delaware on charges he broke a law barring illegal drug users from owning firearms.

In an interview with ABC News, Biden replied "yes" when asked if he would rule out pardoning Hunter. He also replied "yes" when asked if he would accept the outcome of the trial, which started this week.

Hunter Biden has pleaded not guilty to... (continue reading...)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals will hear a series of industry legal challenges seeking to block the Biden administration's reinstatement of landmark net neutrality rules set to take effect on July 22, according to an order Thursday.

The Federal Communications Commission voted in April along party lines to reassume regulatory oversight of broadband internet and reinstate open internet rules adopted in 2015 that were... (continue reading...)

(In paragraph 3, corrects time of livestream to 12 pm ET, not 6 am ET)

(Reuters) -Shares of GameStop surged over 30% on Thursday after the online stock influencer known as "Roaring Kitty" posted on YouTube that he would hold a livestream on Friday.

Thursday's surge was the latest in a bout of volatile trading in the struggling videogame seller's shares that kicked off last month after the influencer, whose real name is Keith Gill, returned... (continue reading...)