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Kevin McCarthy Eyes Coveted Seat As Republicans Close-In On US House Majority
WASHINGTON — With Republicans closing in on a narrower-than-expected majority in the U.S. House of Representatives, GOP party leader Kevin McCarthy is hoping to land one job he has long coveted: speaker of the House....
Analysis-Ukraine’s Sparse Wheat Plantings Sow Further Trouble for Global Food Security
By Pavel Polityuk, Maytaal Angel, and Nigel Hunt KYIV/LONDON - War, rain, and economic hardship have depressed Ukraine's wheat plantings, depriving the nation of vital export earnings in 2023 and heralding another year of tight...
U.S., Japan, and Partners Mobilise $20 Billion to Move Indonesia Away From Coal
By David Lawder and Valerie Volcovici NUSA DUA, Indonesia/SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt - A coalition of countries will mobilize $20 billion of public and private finance to help Indonesia shut coal power plants and bring forward...
NASA Prepares for Third Attempt at Artemis Lunar Rocket Launch
By Joey Roulette and Steve Gorman CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Ground teams at Kennedy Space Center prepared on Tuesday for a third try at launching NASA's towering, next-generation moon rocket, the debut flight of the...
Electric Vehicle Makers Burning Cash, Slammed by Sky-high Costs
Every time Lucid Group Inc or Rivian Automotive Inc sells an electric car, they are losing hundreds of thousands of dollars due to staggering raw material and production costs, their latest earnings statements showed. Quarterly...
Dolly Parton Receives $100 Million Award from Jeff Bezos
Country music star and philanthropist Dolly Parton received a $100 million prize from the "Bezos Courage & Civility Award" given by Amazon founder, billionaire Jeff Bezos, an honor that recognizes leaders who "pursue solutions with...
Musk Trial Will Decide Fate of $56 Billion Tesla Pay
A trial opened on Monday, Nov. 14 over shareholder allegations that Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk's $56 billion pay package was rigged with easy performance targets and that investors were duped into approving it, with...
Biden and Xi to Meet Face-to-Face as Superpower Relations Mired in Tensions
By Nandita Bose, Simon Lewis, and David Brunnstrom, Reuters U.S. President Joe Biden will meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping in person on Monday for the first time since taking office, with U.S. concerns over Taiwan, Russia's war in Ukraine, and North Korea's nuclear ambitions on...
Musk Says Twitter to Soon Enable Organizations to Identify Their Associated Accounts
Twitter's billionaire owner Elon Musk on Sunday said that Twitter would soon enable organizations to identify Twitter accounts associated with them as the new Twitter owner continues to find ways to limit fake accounts on...
Six Dead in Istanbul Blast, Erdogan Says it ‘Smells Like Terrorism’
By David Gauthier-Villars, Azra Ceylan and Ece Toksabay ISTANBUL - Six people were killed and 81 others wounded on Sunday when an explosion rocked a busy pedestrian street in central Istanbul in what Turkish President...
Brazil’s Central Bank Chief Says Fiscal Prudence Crucial Amid Political Protests and Inflation
BRASILIA, BRAZIL — Brazil's central bank chief Roberto Campos Neto emphatically defended the need for fiscal balance on Friday, Nov. 11 following up statements by leftist President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva that soured the...
Musk Warns of Twitter Bankruptcy as More Senior Executives Quit
Twitter Inc's new owner Elon Musk on Thursday raised the possibility of the social media platform going bankrupt, capping a chaotic day that included a warning from a U.S. privacy regulator and the exit of...