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The United States is suspending some aid programs to the Niger government, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday, more than one week after the country's president was toppled in a coup."The US government is pausing certain foreign assistance programs benefiting the government of Nig...
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The United States is preparing to deploy sailors and Marines aboard commercial tankers transiting the Gulf as part of efforts to deter Iran from seizing ships, a US official said Thursday.The security details would provide a further layer of protection for the tankers in addition to the warships and...
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US border police persistently commit human rights abuses without accountability in their handling of migrants at the frontier with Mexico, a new report from two Latin America-focused NGOs said Wednesday.The report, from the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) and the Kino Border Initiative (KB...
Donald Trump alleged an "unprecedented weaponization of 'Justice'" on Thursday, hours before he was to appear in a Washington courtroom to answer charges of conspiracy to overturn the 2020 presidential election.Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee in the 2024 White House race,...
Donald Trump was indicted on Tuesday over his efforts to upend the results of the 2020 US election -- the most serious legal threat yet to the former president as he campaigns to return to the White House.It is the third criminal indictment of the 77-year-old Trump since March and charges him with t...
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Fitch downgraded the United States' top-notch credit rating by a step on Tuesday, citing a growing federal debt burden and an "erosion of governance" that has manifested in debt limit standoffs.The decision to downgrade the US from AAA to AA+ sparked a fiery rebuttal from the White Hou...
Argentina could receive a much-needed disbursement of funds from the IMF, the lender said Friday, with a fresh staff-level agreement paving the way for access to $7.5 billion.The deal, involving combined reviews of the country's $44 billion loan program, aims to "support Argentina's pol...
The US Federal Reserve raised its benchmark lending rate on Wednesday to the highest level since 2001 to tackle above-target inflation, and signaled it could hike again later this year amid improving economic prospects."Policy has not been restrictive enough for long enough to have its full des...
The US Federal Reserve is poised to announce a fresh quarter percentage-point hike to its benchmark lending rate on Wednesday to tackle inflation, while keeping the option open for more such moves in the coming months.The Fed last month halted its aggressive campaign of monetary tightening after 10 ...
President Joe Biden is set to designate a new national monument on Tuesday memorializing the brutal 1950s lynching of Emmett Till, with the White House framing the symbolic act as part of a fight against resurgent racism.The monument, sited in several locations, will remember the 14-year-o...
When Aileen Mercedes Cannon was appointed a judge by Donald Trump three years ago, she could hardly have imagined she would preside over his trial.But on Friday she set May 20, 2024 as the date to start the unprecedented federal criminal prosecution of a former president in her small Fort Pierce,Flo...
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...
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...
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...
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