Top leaders in the US Congress agreed on Sunday to a maximum federal spending level of $1.6 trillion in a deal aimed at avoiding a partial government shutdown this month, House Speaker Mike Johnson said. The maximum figure includes US$886 billion for defense and US$704 billion for non-defense spending, Johnson said in a letter to ...
Hundreds of flights have been grounded across the United States due to a pair of winter storms that left more than a foot of snow in New York’s Hudson Valley and prompted blizzard warnings across the Great Plains. The first storm continues to bring heavy snow Sunday to Boston and New England, the National Weather ...
They seized 8.7 tons of cocaine destined for the Netherlands, camouflaged in wooden tiles Bolivian special security forces They seized on the border with Chile some 8.8 tons of cocaine worth USD$526 million, the largest seizure of the drug in its history. The Government of the South American country reported on Friday. The operation carried ...
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether hospitals can perform abortions in emergency situations, even in states that have near-total bans. The justices said they will hear arguments from Idaho officials who say the state should be allowed to fully enforce a law that bans all abortions except when necessary to save the ...
President Joe Biden began his first campaign event of the year, arguing directly to voters that his predecessor Donald Trump is a danger to democracy and should not be returned to the White House. Biden’s comments on Friday offered some of his sharpest warnings yet about the threat he said Trump represents for the country’s ...
Dozens of Saudi companies said their profits could take a hit this year as production costs rise after the state energy group Saudi Aramco will notify you that it will drastically increase raw material and fuel prices. Companies including Nama Chemicals 2210.SE and Saudi Ceramic 2040.SE said in regulatory filings that Saudi Aramco 2222.SE notified ...
The U.S. Department of Justice said Wednesday that it filed a lawsuit against Texas to challenge a immigration law called Senate Bill 4which the DOJ described as “clearly unconstitutional.” The law defines as state crime illegal entry or reentry in Texas from a foreign country and gives state and local law enforcement the power to ...
The United States will reopen four legal border crossings between the United States and Mexico on Thursday due to high levels of illegal immigration have decreased and have released personnel, US border authorities reported on Tuesday. The United States will resume operations at an international bridge in Eagle Pass, Texas, two crossings in Arizona and ...
A Bangladesh court on Monday sentenced Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus to six months in prison for labor law violations, prosecutors said. From what he said it was a crime he did not commit. Yunus, 83, and his Grameen Bank won the Peace Prize in 2006 for their work lifting millions of people out of poverty ...
A strong earthquake shook central Japan on Monday, prompting warnings for residents to evacuate some areas of its western coast. leaving thousands of homes without power and disrupting flights and train services. The movement, with a preliminary magnitude of 7.6, caused waves of around 1 meter in some areas of the Sea of Japan coast ...
