By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Federal Reserve Governor Chris Waller, an advocate for an immediate interest rate cut, said on Friday he would accept the job as head of the U.S. central bank if asked by President Donald Trump, but so far Trump has not contacted him about it. “In 2019 the president contacted me …
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CARACAS (Reuters) -Seven Venezuelan migrant children who had been separated from their families and kept in U.S. care have been sent home, Venezuelan Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello and First Lady Cilia Flores said on Friday. Speaking from Maiquetia airport near Caracas after the arrival of a plane carrying hundreds of migrants deported from Texas, Cabello …
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(Corrects spelling of name Qiu in paragraph 23) By Antoni Slodkowski, Casey Hall and Scott Murdoch BEIJING/SHANGHAI/SYDNEY (Reuters) -Fears that employees of foreign firms risk entanglement with Chinese authorities have resurfaced after news that an employee of U.S. bank Wells Fargo has been banned from leaving the country. Business groups, diplomats and overseas executives say …
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By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -“The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” the most-watched late-night program on U.S. broadcast television and a frequent platform of satire aimed at President Donald Trump, will end its 10-year run on CBS in May 2026, the network said on Thursday. The show will be retired and Colbert will not …
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By Kanishka Singh and Bhargav Acharya WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. government designated the Resistance Front, considered an offshoot of the Pakistani extremist group Lashkar-e-Taiba, as a “foreign terrorist organization” over the April 22 Islamist militant attack in India-administered Kashmir that killed 26 men, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Thursday. The Resistance Front, also …
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(Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump is pushing for a minimum tariff of 15% to 20% in any deal with the European Union, the Financial Times reported on Friday, adding that the administration is now looking at a reciprocal tariff rate that exceeds 10%, even if a deal is reached. Trump has also been unmoved by …
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(Adds reporting credit) By Ahmed Kingimi MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) -Gunmen killed at least six people and abducted more than 100 others, including women and children, in an attack on Kairu community in Nigeria’s northwest Zamfara state, a local lawmaker and residents said on Friday. Zamfara is the epicentre of attacks by gangs of heavily armed …
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By Ali Sawafta JORDAN VALLEY, West Bank (Reuters) -Palestinian Bedouins accused Israeli settlers on Friday of killing 117 sheep in an overnight attack and stealing hundreds of others in an apparent effort to chase farmers off their land in the occupied West Bank. The incident comes amid what the United Nations described this week as …
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By Leah Douglas WASHINGTON -The U.S. Department of Agriculture said it has fired 70 foreign contract researchers after a national security review intended to secure the U.S. food supply from adversaries including China, Russia, North Korea and Iran. “USDA has completed a thorough review of individuals authorized to work on contracts with the department and …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian troops have taken control of three villages in three different parts of the frontline running through Ukraine, the Defence Ministry said on Thursday. Official Ukrainian reports of activity along the 1,000-km (600-mile) front disputed part of the Russian account, particularly concerning a key village in the southeast. Reuters could not independently verify …
