By Trevor Hunnicutt and David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden and House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy won’t come to their first meeting over raising the debt ceiling with any specific proposals to stave off a possible default, both sides indicated on Tuesday. Instead, the Wednesday meeting between Biden and McCarthy is …
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By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Democratic president. A new Republican majority in the U.S. House of Representatives pushing for sharp spending cuts. A rapidly growing pile of debt – and a showdown that threatens to throw the global economy into turmoil. Sound familiar? Those elements driving the debate over raising the federal government’s …
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By Gram Slattery and Ted Hesson COLUMBIA, South Carolina (Reuters) -Former U.S. President Donald Trump hit the campaign trail on Saturday for the first time since announcing his bid to reclaim the White House in 2024, visiting two early-voting states and brushing aside criticism that his run was off to a slow start. “I’m more …
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VIENNA (Reuters) – A Russian leasing unit of Austrian lender Raiffeisen Bank International is among the companies targeted by sanctions that Ukraine announced overnight, RBI said on Sunday. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy announced a wave of sanctions overnight targeting 182 Russian and Belarusian companies along with three individuals. The companies mainly deal with goods transportation, …
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By Steven Scheer and Maayan Lubell JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Tel Aviv shares fell on Sunday with analysts citing investor jitters over planned judiciary changes by Israel’s hard-right government and after a Palestinian gunman killed seven people outside a synagogue on Jerusalem’s outskirts. The blue-chip Tel Aviv 35 index was 1.% lower in afternoon trade, while …
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MADRID (Reuters) – Spanish flag carrier Iberia said on Sunday it had solved an IT problem in the airline’s booking and boarding system that disrupted dozens of domestic and international flights on Saturday. Five flights were cancelled and scores more were delayed, a according to a spokeswoman for Iberia, part of International Consolidated Airlines Group. …
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By David Shepardson (Reuters) -The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said on Saturday it will investigate a crash of a Freightliner box truck and a bus that killed six in Louisville, New York. The crash, which occurred around 6:02 a.m. Saturday on State Highway 37 in the small city in St. Lawrence County near the …
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BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia seized more cocaine in 2022 than any other year on record, the South American country’s defense ministry reported Saturday. Security forces seized 671 tonnes of the drug last year, surpassing the 2021 total by about 1.7 tonnes. “It is necessary to combat the illicit income that comes from drug trafficking, which …
By Alyssa Pointer and Steve Gorman MEMPHIS, Tenn. (Reuters) -Tyre Nichols repeatedly cried, “Mom! Mom!” as the five Memphis police officers now charged with the Black motorist’s murder pummeled him with kicks, punches and baton blows after a Jan. 7 traffic stop, video released by the city on Friday showed. The video from police body-worn …
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By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – Lawyers for Sam Bankman-Fried on Saturday urged a U.S. judge not to ban the indicted FTX cryptocurrency executive from communicating with former colleagues as part of his bail, saying prosecutors “sandbagged” the process to put their client in the “worst possible light.” The lawyers were responding to a …
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