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U.S. Congress to vote on debt-limit hike, averting default risk
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress is expected to vote on Tuesday to raise the federal government's $28.9 trillion debt limit, ending a months-long standoff between Republicans and Democrats tha...
Dec 14, 2021
Analysis: U.S. rollout of free preschool could put more moms into U.S. workforce
By Jonnelle Marte (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden's $1.75 trillion "Build Back Better" spending plan includes a potentially life-changing plan to make universal preschool free nationwide, making ...
Dec 14, 2021
Democratic proposal for State Department anti-Islamophobia office to get House committee vote
By Moira Warburton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Democratic proposal for a U.S. State Department office addressing anti-Muslim bias will get a procedural vote in a House committee on Tuesday, after a Repub...
Dec 14, 2021
Five takeaways from the prosecution’s case at Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex abuse trial
By Luc Cohen (Reuters) - Prosecutors rested their case in Ghislaine Maxwell's sex abuse trial on Friday after two weeks of emotional testimony from four women who say Maxwell set them up for sexual en...
Dec 14, 2021
Harvard professor charged with lying about China ties faces trial
By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) - A Harvard University nanotechnology professor faces trial on Tuesday on U.S. charges that he lied to authorities about his ties to a China-run recruitment program an...
Dec 14, 2021
Analysis-Murdoch emails loom large in billion-dollar election lawsuits against Fox News
By Helen Coster and Jan Wolfe (Reuters) - Did Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch influence Fox News' coverage of claims about two voting technology companies - knowing that those claims were false? That has b...
Dec 14, 2021
NASA’s Webb telescope promises an ‘amazing journey’ for astronomy
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - It was finished years late at a cost far higher than planned, but NASA's James Webb Space Telescope due for launch next week may usher in a new era in astronomy a...
Dec 14, 2021
U.S. FTC, states to take Shkreli to trial over price hike
By Brendan Pierson NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Trade Commission and several states are set to take Vyera Pharmaceuticals founder Martin Shkreli to trial on Tuesday for trying to block generi...
Dec 14, 2021
China’s WeRide receives strategic investment from GAC Group for robotaxis
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - WeRide, a China-based autonomous driving startup, said on Tuesday that it had received a strategic investment from Guangzhou Automobile Group which will deepen their partnership t...
Dec 14, 2021
Keeping the bankers sweet: Hong Kong regulators send candy to quarantined financiers
HONG KONG (Reuters) - You know it's going to be a long haul when the regulator starts sending you candy. Jet-setting banking executives stuck in Hong Kong's weeks-long quarantine programme have receiv...
Dec 14, 2021
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