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© Reuters. U.S. President Joe Biden applauds Cranita Jordan, a 4th year apprentice at Ironworkers Local 5, after she addressed the crowd gathered to see the president sign an executive order on federal construction project contracts and labor agreements during a vis By Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House on Monday released a…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba meets with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken (not pictured) in Kyiv, Ukraine, January 19, 2022. Alex Brandon/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo KYIV (Reuters) – Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba on Sunday urged people to ignore “apocalyptic predictions” about an imminent Russian invasion, saying his country was…

Former President Donald Trump released a fiery statement Friday after his former vice president, Mike Pence, plainly called him “wrong.”Pence said earlier on Friday that Trump was wrong to say the vice president had the power to overturn the results of the 2020 election.”This week, our former president said I had the right to ‘overturn…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) chats with Sarah Bloom Raskin, who is nominated to be vice chair for supervision and a member of the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors, and her daughter Hannah Raskin, following a Senate Banking, Housing an By Ann Saphir (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden’s nominees to…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: U.S. Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell speaks during his re-nominations hearing of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee on Capitol Hill, in Washington, U.S., January 11, 2022. Brendan Smialowski/Pool via REUTERS (Reuters) – Jerome Powell will become interim Federal Reserve chair on Saturday, ensuring continuity in leadership at…

© Reuters. U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about a U.S. Special Forces operation in Northern Syria against ISIS leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashemi al-Quraishi, from the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, U.S., February 3, 2022. REUTERS/Sarah Silbiger By Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden will sign an executive order on…

World number one tennis player Novak Djokovic meets Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and thanks his administration as well as his fellow citizens for their support during the time he was detained and deported from Australia over his vaccination status, ahead of the Australian Open.

2/2 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi gestures as he holds his end-of-year news conference in Rome, Italy, December 22, 2021. REUTERS/Remo Casilli 2/2 By Gavin Jones, Angelo Amante and Giuseppe Fonte ROME (Reuters) – Last weekend, for the first time in his gilded career, Mario Draghi missed out on a promotion.…

For the first time, the Tennessee Senate on Wednesday voted to expel a senator, stripping Sen. Katrina Robinson of her elected position following her federal conviction on federal wire fraud charges.Robinson, D-Memphis, had decried the Senate’s move as racist and misogynistic and called the expulsion a “procedural lynching” Wednesday. The senator grew emotional on the…

© Reuters. White House Warns Latest Jobs Data Will Be Ugly Due to Omicron (Bloomberg) — The White House is lowering expectations for this week’s U.S. jobs report, saying that brief absences of workers due to omicron could overstate the number of unemployed people for last month. Several White House officials have teed up Friday’s report…