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U.S. Democrats set showdown with Republicans on federal debt limit
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The top Democrats in the U.S. Congress on Monday said they would aim to continue funding the government and increase its borrowing authority in a single bill in coming days, sett...
Sep 20, 2021
States rally around proposed U.S. laws to rein in Big Tech
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bipartisan group of U.S. state attorneys general sent a letter to lawmakers on Monday urging them to pass a series of bills that tighten antitrust laws aimed at Big Tech compa...
Sep 20, 2021
U.S. adds top Guatemalan, Salvadoran officials to corruption list
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The United States said on Monday it had put Guatemala's attorney general and five Salvadoran Supreme Court judges on a list of "undemocratic and corrupt" officials, in a sign o...
Sep 20, 2021
U.S. administers 386.2 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines – CDC
(Reuters) - The United States has administered 386,237,881 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Monday morning, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. Those figures are u...
Sep 20, 2021
Pianist Beisembayev ‘on cloud nine’ after winning Leeds competition
By Mindy Burrows LONDON (Reuters) - Kazakhstan-born pianist Alim Beisembayev began his musical career when he picked a miniature toy piano for his fifth birthday present. Now aged 23, he has scooped t...
Sep 20, 2021
White House: apparent use of whips on Haitian migrants not acceptable
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House said on Monday that footage appearing to show border patrol agents using whips against Haitian migrants coming into the United States from Mexico was unacceptabl...
Sep 20, 2021
Prosecutors rest case against R. Kelly after month of testimony
By Tyler Clifford NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors on Monday rested their sex trafficking case against R. Kelly, after a month of often disturbing and graphic testimony from people who accused th...
Sep 20, 2021
Mother of Trayvon Martin to speak in Peoria at MLK event
PEORIA, Ill. – The mother of Travon Martin will be making an appearance in Peoria next year. The group Public Employees for Community Concerns — a group of African-American City of Peoria ...
Sep 20, 2021
Biden supports full investigation into Afghanistan drone strike
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden supports a thorough investigation of the U.S. drone strike that killed up to ten Afghanistan civilians last month, the White House said on Monday. Biden...
Sep 20, 2021
Coinbase scraps plans for crypto lending program
(Reuters) - Coinbase Global Inc has scrapped its plan to launch an interest-yielding USD Coin (USDC) lending program, the cryptocurrency exchange said in a blog post. The move comes days after U.S. re...
Sep 20, 2021
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