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President Joe Biden on Friday announced he will nominate Admiral Lisa Franchetti to lead the US Navy, which would make her the first woman to hold the position and to serve on the Joint Chiefs of Staff.But it is unclear if the Senate will confirm her by the time her predecessor leaves office, as a R...
Business
Amazon said Friday it will invest $120 million to build a satellite construction facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, as part of its plans to launch a space internet service to rival SpaceX's Starlink.The company founded by Jeff Bezos says its "Project Kuiper" will provide &quo...
The United States (US) placed more than 120 companies from Russia as well as several Kyrgyzstan firms on its sanctions blacklist Thursday for what it said were their contributions to Russia's war on Ukraine.The sanctions aimed at further choking off Russia's access to critical raw and manufa...
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The United States on Wednesday announced a new $1.3 billion military aid package for Ukraine featuring air defense systems, anti-tank missiles, drones and other equipment.The package is part of US efforts to meet "Ukraine's pressing requirements by committing critical near-term capabilities...
Russia is considering attacking civilian ships on the Black Sea and then putting the blame on Ukrainian forces, a senior White House official said Wednesday."The Russian military may expand their targeting of Ukrainian grain facilities to include attacks against civilian shipping," Nationa...
Summer has just begun in the Northern Hemisphere but a brutal heat wave is already gripping parts of Europe, China and the United States, where record temperatures expected this weekend are a stark illustration of the dangers of a warming climate.Extreme heat advisories have been issued for more tha...
The US budget deficit in the first nine months of the fiscal year nearly tripled from a year ago, the Treasury Department said Thursday, citing lower receipts and higher spending.The deficit for the period between October 2022 and June this year came in at $1.39 trillion -- up from $515 billion the ...
A senior US Federal Reserve official said Thursday he supported another interest rate hike later this month, and backed a second hike before the end of the year to keep tackling inflation.After 10 consecutive increases, the Fed in June chose not to hike its benchmark lending rate, saying policymaker...
The United States (US) called Wednesday for the reopening of the only road linking Armenia with the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh.It also called on both Armenia and Azerbaijan to continue dialogue on ending their long-running conflict over Karabakh.Secretary of State Anthony Blinken spoke wit...
US consumer inflation cooled in June to its lowest rate since early 2021, according to government data released Wednesday -- an encouraging sign for policymakers battling cost-of-living pressures. The key inflation gauge, the consumer price index (CPI), rose 3.0 percent from a year ago last month, t...
Jets of red gas bursting into the cosmos, and a glowing cave of dust: NASA unveiled a spectacular new imageWednesday depicting the birth of stars to mark the first anniversary of the James Webb Space Telescope's science operations.The picture is of the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex, the nearest sta...
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will seek in talks with Southeast Asian nations next week to push back on China and to pressure Myanmar's junta, a top aide said Friday.Blinken will travel to Jakarta for talks with foreign ministers of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), flying s...
Russian warplanes harassed three American drones over Syria on Wednesday while they were taking part in a mission against jihadists, a US commander said."While three US MQ-9 drones were conducting a mission against ISIS targets, three Russian fighter jets began harassing the drones," Air F...
US President Joe Biden told Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson on Wednesday that he is "looking forward" to Sweden's stalled NATO membership bid winning final approval, as the Western alliance prepares for next week's summit.Speaking in the Oval Office, Biden said he wanted to reiterat...
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Four people were killed, and four others wounded in a mass shooting Monday night in Philadelphia in the latest chapter of America's gun violence crisis, news reports said.Philadelphia police spokesman Miguel Torres confirmed to AFP there were multiple gunshot victims but gave no numbers or detai...
US President Joe Biden has scheduled a diplomatic trip to Europe this month with stops in the United Kingdom, at the NATO summit in Lithuania and to attend meetings in Finland, the White House said Sunday.Biden is set to depart July 9 for Britain, where he will meet with the King Charles III and Pri...
The US Coast Guard said Sunday it had launched an investigation into the cause of the underwater implosion that destroyed the small submersible Titan, with the loss of all five people aboard during a dive to the Titanic wreck.The Coast Guard said it had created a marine board of investigation (MBI),...
Laser-focused on countering China, US President Joe Biden has embraced Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi as he has few other world leaders, casting aside any concerns about the Hindu nationalist's authoritarian streak.Biden offered Modi the full pomp of a state visit with two dinners -- one in...
The head of US intelligence said Friday that there was no evidence that the Covid-19 virus was created in the Chinese government's Wuhan research lab.In a declassified report, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) said they had no information backing recent claims that three...
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US President Joe Biden will sign an executive order Friday aimed at strengthening access to contraception, the White House said, a year after the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion.Friday's executive order will give women with private health insurance under the governm...
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