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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The U.S. Federal Reserve building is pictured in Washington, March 18, 2008. REUTERS/Jason Reed/File Photo By Michael S. Derby (Reuters) – The Federal Reserve’s in-house watchdog agency is pushing back against proposed legislation in the U.S. Senate that would overhaul how the government department is led. Mark Bialek, who heads the…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan speaks during a press briefing at the White House in Washington, U.S., April 24, 2023. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque WASHINGTON (Reuters) – White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Thursday the United States is not looking to decouple its economy from the Chinese economy, saying,…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023, in Washington, as Vice President Kamala Harris applauds. Jacquelyn Martin/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo WASHINGTON (Reuters) – If U.S. President Joe Biden were to be presented with Republican House…

President Joe Biden signed an executive order with 50 directives aimed at reeling in rising child care and care giving costs.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Tennessee man and his mother were convicted on Tuesday of charges that they stormed the Capitol, where they brought plastic zip-tie handcuffs into the Senate gallery as a mob attacked the building, court records show.U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth convicted Eric Munchel and his mother, Lisa Eisenhart, on all 10 counts…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president lashed out Monday at what he called U.S. “spying” and “interference” in Mexico, days after U.S. prosecutors announced charges against 28 members of the Sinaloa cartel for smuggling massive amounts of fentanyl into the United States.President Andrés Manuel López Obrador suggested Monday that the case had been built on…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Tuesday that he looks forward to hosting the NCAA men’s and women’s championship basketball teams, the University of Connecticut and Louisiana State University, at the White House, appearing to shut the door on a suggestion a day earlier by his wife, Jill, that the defeated Iowa women’s team…

Last May, Russian President Vladimir Putin and his top diplomat unexpectedly downplayed the significance of Finland joining the NATO alliance — the possibility of which previously led Moscow to repeatedly threaten the Nordic country. Putin said at that time that Finland joining NATO didn’t pose an “immediate threat” to Russia.The Kremlin is, however, shifting its…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Italian Economy Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti attends a news conference for the government’s first budget in Rome, Italy November 22, 2022. REUTERS/Remo Casilli/File Photo By Federico Maccioni CERNOBBIO, Italy (Reuters) – The outlook for the Italian economy is improving but higher interest rates designed to curb inflation could pose a threat to…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) hosts a bill enrollment ceremony for legislation blocking the enactment of the Washington, DC City Council’s ‘Revised Criminal Code Act of 2022’, in Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said on Thursday that…