WASHINGTON, Jan 12 (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski on Monday threw her support behind fellow Republican Thom Tillis’ plan to block President Donald Trump’s Fed nominees after the Justice Department over the weekend threatened to indict Fed chairman Jerome Powell. “The stakes are too high to look the other way: if the Federal Reserve…
Jan 11 (Reuters) – Low-cost airline Allegiant will acquire Sun Country Airlines in a deal valued at about $1.5 billion, including debt, the companies said on Sunday. As part of the agreement, Sun Country shareholders will receive 0.1557 Allegiant shares and $4.10 in cash for each share, valuing the stock at $18.89, representing a premium…
LONDON, Jan 11 (Reuters) – Britain said on Sunday discussions with other NATO members on deterring Russian activity in the Arctic were “business as usual”, after media reports the UK was in talks with its European allies about deploying a military force to Greenland. The Telegraph reported on Saturday that military chiefs from Britain and…
SAVAGE, Minnesota, Jan 9 (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Australia and several other countries would join a meeting of finance ministers from the Group of Seven advanced economies that he is hosting in Washington on Monday to discuss critical minerals. Bessent said he had been pressing for a separate meeting on the…
WASHINGTON, Jan 8 (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate voted on Thursday to advance a resolution that would bar President Donald Trump from taking further military action against Venezuela without congressional authorization, even as Trump said U.S. oversight of the troubled nation could last years. The Senate voted 52 to 47 on a procedural measure to…
By Renee Hickman, Brad Brooks and Joseph Ax MINNEAPOLIS, Jan 9 (Reuters) – The White House on Friday reposted on social media a video taken from the cellphone of the U.S. Immigration officer who fatally shot a Minnesota woman in her car this week, adding to the documentation of an incident that has sparked days…
BUENOS AIRES, Jan 9 (Reuters) – The Mercosur bloc will sign its long-delayed trade agreement with the European Union on January 17, Argentina’s foreign ministry said Friday, marking a breakthrough after years of negotiations. “After more than 30 years of negotiations, we will sign on January 17 in Paraguay a historic and most ambitious agreement…
By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON, Jan 8 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s aides began to make their case on Thursday for a $400 million White House ballroom before a commission that oversees federal building construction and said they are considering adding a second story to part of the West Wing as well. Trump, a Republican who…
MATANZAS, Cuba, Jan 8 (Reuters) – Cubans braced for a deepening economic crisis after the United States seized two more Venezuela-linked oil tankers on Wednesday, a move that threatens to sever a critical energy lifeline for the Communist-run island just days after U.S. forces captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. In the port of Matanzas where…
(Removes extraneous word in second paragraph) Jan 8 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said that “only time will tell” how long the United States will maintain oversight of Venezuela in an interview published by the New York Times early on Thursday. When asked by the Times if it would be three months, six months,…
