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Meetings, interviews, fundraising events, official travel: Joe Biden tried this week to be everywhere at once while his rival Donald Trump was held up in court.It was a tactical campaign move by an 81-year-old president who faces mixed polls and nagging questions about his age. Since last Monday, Tr...
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The US House of Representatives on Saturday approved long-delayed military aid to Ukraine in a rare show of bipartisan unity, while also bolstering Israel and Taiwan defenses and threatening to ban Chinese-owned TikTok.The four bills in the $95 billion package were overwhelmingly approved in quick s...
Two people were killed and six others wounded in a shooting at a block party on Saturday in the US city of Memphis, local police said.Two people were found deceased at the scene, and one of the six wounded "remains in critical condition" at an area hospital, the Memphis Police Department w...
The US House of Representatives is poised to hold a crucial vote on Saturday on a major aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan -- and a possible ban of TikTok.The votes on the $95 billion foreign aid and arms bills are expected to begin at 1:00 pm (1700 GMT), and embattled Republican Speaker Mik...
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The International Monetary Fund announced on Friday the immediate disbursement of $820 million to the Egyptian government, part of an augmented plan to aid the nation's stumbling economy.The IMF's Executive Board validated the payment as part of a $3 billion aid program granted at the end of...
The US military said Friday it had struck three underground storage facilities used by Yemen's Huthis, as the Iran-backed rebels continue to launch attacks on shipping in the Red Sea.US forces "conducted self-defense strikes against three Huthi underground storage facilities in Iranian-back...
The US Department of Justice sued Apple on Thursday, accusing the tech giant of illegally maintaining a monopoly for its iPhone by stifling competition and imposing exorbitant costs on consumers.The lawsuit, also brought by multiple US states, said Apple raked in hundreds of billions of dollars by a...
The International Monetary Fund's executive board confirmed Thursday it will disburse $880 million to Ukraine in the third phase of a $15.6 billion aid package to support the country's war-torn economy. "Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues to bring enormous social and econom...
The US Federal Reserve is widely expected to keep its key lending rate unchanged again on Wednesday, as policymakers continue discussions over when to start rate cuts and launch the next phase in their long-running battle against inflation. The Fed has raised interest rates to a 23-year high of...
Global oil demand is forecast to grow more than expected due to a brighter US economic outlook and rising fuel needs of ships rerouted away from the Red Sea, the International Energy Agency said Thursday. Commercial ships have been taking longer and costlier journeys around the southern tip of ...
US regulators unveiled fines of almost $350 million Thursday against US bank JPMorgan Chase for what they called inadequate trade reporting and surveillance.The fines, levied by the US Federal Reserve and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), relate to issues with the US banking giant...
President Vladimir Putin has no doubt he will secure another term in Russia’s election. The vote that leaves him in suspense, and could do more to change his policies, will occur eight months later in the United States.Putin has publicly said he prefers US President Joe Biden to his predecesso...
President Joe Biden touted the strength of the US economy during his State of the Union speech to Congress Thursday, pointing to the country's post-pandemic recovery. "Folks, I inherited an economy that was on the brink," he told the joint session of the House and Senate at the Ca...
US forces struck and destroyed a Huthi surface-to-air missile in Yemen on Friday after deciding it posed an "imminent threat" to American aircraft, the US Central Command in the Middle East announced.The Iran-backed Huthis, who control much of war-torn Yemen, have been attacking shipping i...
Democrats and Republicans in the US Congress reached an agreement in principle on Wednesday to extend the federal budget by a few days and defer the threat of a government shutdown.The agreement by Republican and Democratic leaders in the House and Senate would push back the start of a shutdown from...
The first American spaceship to the Moon since the Apollo era is probably lying sideways following its dramatic landing, the company that built it said Friday, even as ground controllers ork to download data and surface photos from the uncrewed robot.BSS/The Odysseus spacecraft landed near the lunar...
The International Monetary Fund said Thursday it will disburse $880 million to Ukraine in the third phase of a $15.6 billion aid package approved last year as Kyiv fights the Russian invasion.The aid, announced almost two years to the day after Russian forces poured across the border, must still be ...
American forces launched "self-defense strikes" Wednesday against Huthi missiles and launch positions in rebel-controlled Yemen that posed threats to commercial shipping and naval forces in the Red Sea, the US military said.The Iran-backed Huthis, who control much of war-torn Yemen, have b...
US President Joe Biden directly blamed Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Friday for the reported death of Alexei Navalny in prison, describing the Kremlin critic as a "powerful voice for the truth."Saying he was "outraged" by the news, Biden said he did not yet know exactly what h...
A house explosion in northern Virginia killed one firefighter and injured at least 11 people on Friday evening, authorities said.James Williams, assistant chief of the local fire department, described the scene of the blast as "total devastation.""There's a debris field well into ...
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