Control of Congress – and Biden’s power – on the ballot
Americans on Tuesday cast the final ballots in U.S. midterm elections that will determine whether Democrats lose control of Congress, and with it the ability to push forward on ...
Trump says he will make a ‘big announcement’ on Nov 15
Former U.S. President Donald Trump suggested on Monday he would mount a 2024 presidential run as soon as next week, saying at a political rally in Ohio on Monday he ...
Biden, Trump make final pitches to U.S. voters on eve of midterm elections
One day before midterm elections that could usher in a new era of divided government in Washington, President Joe Biden and his predecessor Donald Trump will hold competing rallies in ...
Russia’s Prigozhin: I interfered in U.S. elections and will continue in the futuure
Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin said on Monday he had interfered in U.S. elections and would continue doing so in future, the first such admission from a figure who has ...
Kremlin declines to comment on reported Ukraine talks with Biden aide
The Kremlin declined to comment on Monday on a Wall Street Journal report that Washington had held undisclosed talks with top Russian officials about avoiding further escalation in the Ukraine ...
Exxon faces $2 billion loss on sale of troubled California oil properties
Exxon Mobil Corp (XOM.N) will take up to a $2 billion loss on the highly leveraged sale of a troubled California offshore oil and gas field that have been idled ...
NY Fed official: Digital dollar could speed foreign exchange settlement
A top Federal Reserve Bank of New York official said on Friday that the bank sees promise in using a central bank digital dollar to speed up settlement time in ...
Biden, Trump headline dueling rallies as U.S. midterms near
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump headline rallies in New York and Florida, respectively, on Sunday to fire up voters two days before a tight midterm election in ...
U.S.urges Ukraine to be open to talks with Russia-Washington Post (Update 1)
The United States is privately encouraging Ukraine to signal an openness to negotiate with Russia, the Washington Post reported, as the State Department said Moscow was escalating the war and ...
North Korea flies jets, fires artillery near border after US and South extend drills
South Korea said it scrambled warplanes in response to 180 North Korean military flights near the countries’ shared border on Friday, and Pyongyang again demanded that the United States and South ...
G7 Russian oil price cap applies only to seaborne crude
The price cap on Russian oil exports to be imposed by G7 countries and Australia next month will apply only to seaborne cargoes through the first landed sale and will ...
Brittney Griner faces bleak life in Russian penal colony
Tedious manual work, poor hygiene and lack of access to medical care – such are the conditions awaiting U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner in a Russian penal colony after she ...
Trump to announce the launch of 2024 presidential campaign
Former U.S. President Donald Trump’s inner circle is discussing announcing the launch of a 2024 presidential campaign on Nov 14, Axios reported on Friday, citing three sources familiar with the ...
Turkey’s Erdogan still hopeful US will approve F-16 fighter jet sale
President Tayyip Erdogan’s spokesman said the process of the United States approving the sale of F-16 fighter jets to NATO member Turkey was going well and could be completed ...
Pelosi hammer attack suspect was in U.S. illegally, immigration officials say
The man charged with breaking into U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s home and attacking her husband with a hammer is a Canadian citizen who was in the United ...
Trump Organization to have independent monitor, judge rules
A New York state judge on Thursday ordered that an independent monitor be appointed to oversee the Trump Organization before a civil fraud case by the state’s attorney general ...
Cuba and U.S. spar over U.N. resolution calling to end embargo
U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration on Thursday voted against a U.N. General Assembly resolution calling for an end to the U.S. economic embargo on Cuba, leaving ...
Biden warns election deniers pose threat, ‘a path to chaos’, blames Trump
President Joe Biden said that threats by some Republican candidates to refuse to accept results from the Nov. 8 elections if they lose is a threat to democracy and he blamed ...
CVS, Walmart, Walgreens agree to pay $13.8 bln to settle US opioid claims
CVS Health Corp CVS.N, Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc WBA.O and Walmart Inc WMT.N agreed to pay about $13.8 billion to resolve thousands of U.S. state and local ...
Florida school mass shooter sentenced to life in prison
Nikolas Cruz, who murdered 17 students and staff with a semi-automatic rifle at a Florida high school, was formally sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday.
A jury voted last month ...
Trump settles lawsuit over alleged assaults at Trump Tower protest
Donald Trump and his namesake company have settled a lawsuit by protesters who said his security guards violently attacked them while they were demonstrating outside Trump Tower in September 2015 over ...
Russian hackers account for most 2021 ransomware schemes, U.S. says
Payment-seeking software made by Russian hackers was used in three quarters of all the ransomware schemes reported to a U.S. financial crime agency in the second half of 2021, a ...
Trump’s company ‘cheated’ tax authorities, prosecutor says at trial
Former President Donald Trump’s real estate company cheated tax authorities for 15 years, a prosecutor said on Monday in her opening statement in the Trump Organization’s criminal tax fraud ...
US Supreme Court conservatives lean against race-conscious student admissions
Conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices signaled skepticism on Monday toward the legality of race-conscious admissions policies in cases involving Harvard University and the University of North Carolina that could ...