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U.S. House Republicans squirm over Speaker McCarthy’s debt ceiling proposal

By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has begun working in earnest to persuade his fellow Republicans to support a $1.5 trillion increase in the nation’s debt ceiling, amid early indications of a possible revolt in his thin majority. McCarthy faces the toughest test of his young speakership with a bill …

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Elon Musk’s Starship explodes minutes after first test flight’s liftoff

By Joe Skipper and Steve Gorman BOCA CHICA, Texas (Reuters) -SpaceX’s next-generation Starship spacecraft exploded minutes after liftoff in an uncrewed test flight from South Texas on Thursday, cutting short a key step in Elon Musk’s development of a rocket vessel to eventually take humans to the moon and Mars. The flight test was the …

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U.N. chief calls for three-day ceasefire in Sudan as thousands flee

By Khalid Abdelaziz and Nafisa Eltahir KHARTOUM (Reuters) – U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appealed to Sudan’s warring factions to observe a ceasefire over the Muslim Eid al-Fitr holiday to allow civilians to reach safe areas as rival forces battled for a sixth day on Thursday. Thousands of civilians streamed out of the capital Khartoum as …

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Yellen says US seeks ‘healthy competition’ with China, eyes Beijing trip

By David Lawder and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. seeks “constructive and fair” economic ties with China, but will protect its national security interests and push back against Chinese actions to dominate foreign competitors, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Thursday. Speaking at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, Yellen laid out …

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Uganda’s president sends anti-LGBTQ bill back to parliament for ‘strengthening’

KAMPALA (Reuters) -Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni supports a bill containing some of the world’s harshest anti-LGBTQ legislation but will send it back to parliament for “strengthening”, the ruling party’s chief whip said. A group of lawmakers from Museveni’s National Resistance Movement (NRM) discussed the bill with the president and agreed in principle to make it …

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Republican-led ban on transgender student athletes passes US House, moves to Senate

By Katharine Jackson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday passed a Republican bill intended to ban transgender women and girls from competing in women’s and girls’ school sports, delivering at least a short-term victory to social conservatives. The House passed the measure by 219-203 but it has little chance of passing the …

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