By Bo Erickson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republican fiscal hawks in Congress are making a new pitch in the struggle to end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history: Continue to spend at the same rate as last year for as long as possible. That approach would not cut discretionary spending but also not add to the…
By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) -After the U.S. Supreme Court used a conservative legal principle called the “major questions” doctrine to blow holes in Democratic former President Joe Biden’s agenda, will Republican President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs suffer the same fate? That is a key question as the court decides the legality of tariffs that…
Even as Russia and China wage a relentless cyber war against the West, the United Nations is celebrating a new cybercrime treaty whose chief architects were none other than Moscow and Beijing. It should come as no surprise, then, that this U.N. convention, signed by 65 nations last month, is less about fighting cybercrime than about legitimizing authoritarian…
GYEONGJU, South Korea (AP) — Silicon Valley chipmaker Nvidia plans to supply hundreds of thousands of its graphics processing units for projects with South Korean businesses and the government to advance the country’s artificial intelligence infrastructure and technologies. The plan was announced Friday by the government, Nvidia, and some of South Korea’s biggest companies, including…
By Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump‘s administration is preparing to set a refugee admissions cap at 7,500 people this fiscal year, a record low that prioritizes white South Africans of Afrikaner ethnicity, three people familiar with the matter said. If finalized, the planned cap would be a steep drop from the 125,000 put…
Famed primatologist Jane Goodall was renowned for her groundbreaking work with chimpanzees but dedicated her life to helping all wild animals — a passion that lasted until her death this week while on a U.S. speaking tour. She spent decades promoting humanitarian causes and the need to protect the natural world, and tried to balance…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Vice President Kamala Harris says she would have picked Pete Buttigieg as her running mate last year but America wasn’t ready for the pairing, according to an excerpt of her new book. Harris writes in an excerpt of “107 Days” published Wednesday in The Atlantic that former President Joe Biden’s transportation…
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Trump administration said late on Monday it was ordering Delta Air Lines and Aeromexico to unwind a joint venture by January 1 that let the carriers coordinate scheduling, pricing and capacity decisions for U.S.–Mexico flights. The U.S. Transportation Department in July had proposed ending the nearly nine-year-old joint…
By Daniel Wiessner and Jan Wolfe (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court declined on Monday to allow Donald Trump to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook – the first time a president has pursued such action since the central bank’s founding in 1913 – in the latest step in a legal battle that threatens the…
A Democratic candidate for governor of California will be giving TikTok a go, but with a caveat: He’ll only post videos in Spanish. At least for now. Former Biden administration Health Secretary Xavier Becerra is embracing the popular short-video app to target Spanish-language users. His campaign and surveys note that Hispanic adults use TikTok in…