WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday again called on the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates, saying it would help propel the U.S. economy. “I think he has to,” Trump, speaking alongside British Prime Minister Keir Starmer following their meeting in Scotland, said of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on benchmark rates. (Reporting …
By Joseph Tanfani (Reuters) -The U.S. Secret Service arrested a man after he climbed a gate at the U.S. Treasury building in Washington on Sunday at about 2:30 p.m., the agency said in statement. Traffic in the area was blocked off as Washington’s Metropolitan Police Department’s bomb squad, “out of an abundance of caution,” examined …
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(Reuters) -The Trump administration has brought some 1,700 military personnel under the command of state governors to help with the administration’s immigration law enforcement mission, the Pentagon said on Friday. Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said the service status of 1,200 personnel, who were already assisting with the mission, was changed to Title 32 from Title …
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(Reuters) -Tom Lehrer, the math prodigy who became an influential musical satirist with his barbed views of American social and political life in the 1950s and 1960s, has died at the age of 97, according to news reports. Lehrer died at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Saturday, his longtime friend David Herder told the …
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(Reuters) -U.S. insurance giant Allianz Life said on Saturday that hackers stole the personal information of the majority of its customers, financial professionals, and select Allianz Life employees in the United States. The insurance giant’s filing with Maine’s attorney general did not immediately provide the number of customers affected. As per the filing, the data …
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By Andrea Shalal EDINBURGH, Scotland (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump kept a low profile on his Scottish golf course on Saturday, ahead of meetings with top British and European leaders, as questions swirled at home about his ties to disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Trump arrived on Friday on a visit that has …
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(Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Friday it was investigating the death of an eight-year-old boy who received Sarepta Therapeutics’ muscular disorder gene therapy Elevidys. The death occurred on June 7, the agency said, sending shares of the company down more than 3% in extended trading. The patient with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, …
By Andrew Chung (Reuters) -Even as an uproar over files relating to Jeffrey Epstein engulfs President Donald Trump and Congress, the U.S. Supreme Court is due to wade into the controversy and decide whether to hear a bid by an associate of the late financier and convicted sex offender to overturn her criminal conviction. The …
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By Virginia Furness LONDON (Reuters) -The Trump administration wants to provide the U.S.’s flagship development agency more leeway to finance projects in high-income countries, while quadrupling its spending power and enhancing its national security focus, according to a White House proposal seen by Reuters. The plan would represent a big change for the U.S. International …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The White House is seeking fines from several universities it says failed to stop antisemitism on campus, including Harvard University, in exchange for restoring federal funding, a Trump administration official said on Friday. The administration is in talks with several universities, including Cornell, Duke, Northwestern and Brown, the source said, confirming a report …
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