NEW YORK (Reuters) -A longtime senior executive at Donald Trump's family business pleaded guilty on Thursday to helping the company engineer a 15-year tax fraud, in an agreement that will require him to testify about its business practices at an upcoming trial.

MAYVILLE, N.Y. (Reuters) -The man accused of stabbing novelist Salman Rushdie last week in western New York pleaded not guilty to second-degree attempted murder and assault charges on Thursday and was held without bail.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (Reuters) -A court considered on Thursday whether to unseal records containing evidence presented by the U.S. Justice Department to justify its search of Donald Trump's Florida home last week, in a case pitting news organizations against judicial officials.

A U.S. government report released Thursday said the number of reported incidents involving aiming of lasers at U.S. airplanes hit a record in 2021 and said regulators should do more to address the problem.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Thursday he was gravely concerned by the situation at Europe's largest nuclear power station after it came under shelling at the front lines in Ukraine.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States said on Thursday it will boost its supply of monkeypox vaccine by making available an extra 1.8 million doses of Bavarian Nordic's Jynneos shot, as the number of reported cases in the country rose above 13,500.

Global equity markets were choppy and U.S. Treasury yields fell on Thursday, as uncertainty over the pace of interest rate hikes prevailed among investors after the Federal Reserve's meeting minutes showed officials were determined to curb rising prices.

From the street, 670 Union Street looks like one in a line of brick buildings on a tree-lined block in Brooklyn.

Sudanese protesters marched towards the airport in the centre of the capital Khartoum on Thursday before being blocked by tear gas and a heavy army deployment, a Reuters witness said.

Wall Street's main indexes struggled for direction and pared early gains Thursday as investors scrutinize the Federal Reserve's minutes of the July meeting for a "less hawkish" tone against the backdrop of data that had eased inflation worries.