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By Hannah Lang, Michelle Price and Chris Prentice WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Officials on President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team are considering current and former Commodity Futures Trading Commission officials for chair of the agency, according to four people with knowledge of the matter. While the derivatives market regulator has traditionally been…
By Valerie Volcovici BAKU, Azerbaijan (Reuters) – President Joe Biden’s administration has asked the European Union to ensure liquefied shipments that meet U.S. methane regulations automatically comply with Europe’s standards for imports, according to a letter seen by Reuters. Linking U.S. and EU methane standards would safeguard United States’ growing…
TAIPEI (Reuters) – A senior U.S. diplomat who helps manage ties with Taiwan has arrived in Taipei, the de facto U.S. embassy said on Tuesday, as Taiwanese officials sought to downplay Donald Trump’s latest attacks of the island’s crucial chip industry and defence needs. The United States is Chinese-claimed Taiwan’s…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -More than 90 company executives, including the chief executives of Yelp (NYSE:) and Chobani as well as the former CEOs of PepsiCo (NASDAQ:), Ford Motor (NYSE:) Co and Yahoo!, endorsed U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris for the presidency in a letter released on Friday. Separately, more than 100…
Russia appears to be moving thousands of troops from its main eastern front line to support the defense of Kursk after Ukraine’s surprise incursion there, according to US sources.Two unnamed senior US officials told CNN that multiple groups — consisting of at least 1,000 troops each — had apparently been diverted…
The Justice Department has charged a Pakistani man who traveled to New York and Houston with planning the political assassination of US officials.Asif Raza Merchant, 46, was arrested on July 12 and has been accused by federal prosecutors of having close ties with Iran’s government.The Justice Department said he’d planned…
By Aditya Kalra NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Indian labour officials visited a Foxconn factory in the country’s south this week and questioned executives about the company’s hiring practices, an official said, after Reuters reported that the major Apple (NASDAQ:) supplier has been rejecting married women from iPhone assembly jobs. A five-member…
By Leah Douglas and Julie Steenhuysen (Reuters) -Further spread of bird flu among U.S. dairy herds presents additional opportunities for human infections, federal officials said on Thursday while urging farms to take enhanced biosecurity measures to contain the virus. Bird flu has been reported in 94 dairy herds across 12…
It began with Timur Ivanov, Russia’s then-deputy defense minister, who was arrested after being accused of taking bribes “on a particularly large scale.”Then came Lt. Gen. Yuri Kuznetsov, head of the defense ministry’s personnel directorate. He was arrested after more than 100 million rubles (over $1 million), gold coins, and…
US officials are preparing for potential North Korean military action — possibly encouraged by Russian President Vladimir Putin — in the run-up to the US election in November, NBC News reported, citing six senior US officials.Such a move could be designed to create chaos in another part of the world…
