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2/2 © Reuters. U.S. President Joe Biden speaks as he hosts mayors from the U.S. Conference of Mayors’ Winter Meeting and other officials in the East Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., January 20, 2023. REUTERS/Leah Millis 2/2 By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden on Friday pledged to “have a discussion”…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen speaks during her interview with Reuters in New Delhi, India, November 11, 2022. REUTERS/Altaf Hussain By Andrea Shalal and Jeff Mason DAKAR/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Friday warned that the U.S. government cannot choose to pay some bills over others if Congress fails to…

Former President Trump suffered yet another legal setback on Thursday, when a U.S. district judge ordered him and his lead attorney to pay almost $1 million in costs and fees to numerous defendants, including Hillary Clinton, after a Trump suit the judge found to be without merit.The stark finding appears to have had an instant…

John Kelly, Donald Trump’s ex-chief of staff, had to repeatedly remind the former president that he couldn’t share classified information with friends, New York Times journalist Michael Schmidt said.Schmidt, the author of “Donald Trump v. The United States,” told MSNBC on Saturday that Kelly was “terrified” about a lot that had to do with the…

House Republicans who blocked Kevin McCarthy’s ascension to the speakership repeated a mantra during the four-day leadership fight that ended after several rounds of dealmaking: Congress is “broken,” they said.It can sound like a talking point, one that’s been recycled year after year to bash the other side. This is a reliable fundraising tactic.But as…

President Joe Biden’s aides discovered a second batch of classified documents stored at a separate location than his private office at a Washington, DC think tank, NBC News reported Wednesday.The report said that it’s unclear how many documents were in the batch, where or when exactly they were discovered, or what their classification level was.Wednesday’s…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) logo is seen outside the headquarters building in Washington, U.S., September 4, 2018. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas/File Photo By Gibran Naiyyar Peshimam ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – An International Monetary Fund (IMF) delegation will meet Pakistan’s finance minister on the sidelines of a conference in Geneva beginning on Jan. 9,…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Heather Boushey, appointed to be a member of the Council of Economic Advisers, speaks as U.S. President-elect Joe Biden announces nominees and appointees to serve on his economic policy team at his transition headquarters in Wilmington, Delawa By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. economy appears headed for a soft landing,…

© Reuters. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken looks toward President Joe Biden during a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, U.S., January 5, 2023. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden said on Thursday the U.S. economy was seeing “really bright spots” after a rough few years, and…

Hope Hicks said she and others in the Trump administration looked like “domestic terrorists” and would be unemployable after the Capitol riot, according to text messages released Sunday by the January 6 committee.Hicks, who served as White House communications director and a counselor to the president under former President Donald Trump, appeared to have been…