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US aims to impose tighter curbs on civilian gun exports: Bloomberg

(Reuters) – The Biden administration is seeking to reduce the use of U.S.-made guns in foreign crimes and human rights violations by tightening oversight and rules governing commercial exports of semiautomatic weapons, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday.This follows a review by the U.S. Commerce Department of its support for American gunmakers after a Bloomberg investigation linked …

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Canada’s top pension funds pile into private credit as banks retreat

(This Jan. 23 story has been corrected to say 2023, not 2022, in paragraph 11) By Maiya Keidan, Pablo Mayo Cerqueiro and Iain Withers TORONTO/LONDON (Reuters) – Six of Canada’s biggest pension funds managing C$1.3 trillion ($965.47 billion) in assets have begun a major expansion into private credit, moving into an area previously dominated by …

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Mexican headline inflation continued to accelerate in early January

(Reuters) -Mexican headline inflation persisted in its upward trend for the fifth half-month in a row, above forecasts, according to official data released on Wednesday. Annual headline inflation in Latin America’s second-largest economy hit 4.90% the first 15 days of January, statistics agency INEGI said, up from the 4.66% in December and above the forecasts …

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In New Hampshire, Republicans were just half of voters in their own primary, exit poll shows

By Jason Lange WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Some 51% percent of voters in New Hampshire’s Republican presidential primary contest consider themselves to be Republicans, down from 55% in the party’s 2016 contest, according to an exit poll conducted on Tuesday by Edison Research. The poll gathered responses from 2,192 voters in the Republican contest, and poll results …

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Analysis-Takeaways from the New Hampshire presidential primary

By James Oliphant MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (Reuters) -Donald Trump, the former president, won his second straight nominating contest over challenger Nikki Haley, the only other Republican left in the race, by besting her in Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary. Haley, who served as Trump’s ambassador to the United Nations, was attempting to keep the margin close …

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Biden campaign adds White House aides amid concerns about strategy

By Jarrett Renshaw (Reuters) -Two of U.S. President Joe Biden’s top advisers, Mike Donilon and Jen O’Malley Dillon, will leave the White House for his reelection campaign early next month, as Democrats ramp up their battle plans and former President Donald Trump’s Republican nomination seems imminent. Donilon, senior adviser at the White House, is expected …

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Biden administration urges US Supreme Court to reverse abortion pill curbs

By Andrew Chung (Reuters) -A 2023 judicial decision that would curb access to the abortion pill threatens to disrupt the authority of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and harm the American healthcare system, President Joe Biden’s administration told the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, urging the justices to reverse the ruling. The Justice Department …

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