The August Jobs report tops expectations but there's a fear over rate hikes and the trade war continues as President Trump says he's ready to unleash another $267 billion in tariffs on China. Markets reacted and sparked a 100-point drop in the Dow.
A federal appeals court has cleared the way for utilities to finish building a high-voltage power line across a Mississippi River refuge. American Transmission Company, ITC Midwest and Dairyland Power Cooperative are in the final stages of constructing a 102-mile (164-kilometer) transmission line linking Iowa’s Dubuque County and Wisconsin’s Dane County. About a mile of the line (1.6 kilometers) would cross the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge near Cassville, Wisconsin.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Commerce Department said on Tuesday it has revoked some licenses that allow companies to ship goods, such as chips, to China's mobile phone and laptop maker Huawei. The decision comes after the release last month of Huawei's first AI-enabled laptop, the MateBook X Pro powered by Intel's new Core Ultra 9 processor. That announcement drew fire from Republican lawmakers, who said it suggests the Commerce Department had given the green light to Intel to sell the chip to Huawei.
Nearly 80% of Americans think it’s a bad time to buy a house, according to the Fannie Mae Home Purchase Sentiment Index (HPSI). The index stayed flat in April compared to the previous month as consumers adjust to elevated mortgage rates.
A sinkhole in front of a New Mexico home has swallowed up two cars and forced evacuations in an Las Cruces neighborhood.
President Joe Biden hosted Klaus Iohannis, the president of Romania, on Tuesday at the White House, with the two leaders celebrating their joint cooperation on issues including international security, the economy and continued support for Ukraine. The meeting in the Oval Office was meant to mark Romania's two decades as a NATO member, according to the White House. At the start of the meeting, Biden joked he advocated for NATO accession for Romania when he was a senator “180 years ago” and said the alliance was stronger for the country's inclusion.
President Joe Biden on Tuesday issued a call to fight a swiftly rising tide of antisemitism, saying such hate has no place in America as he connected the horrors of the Holocaust to Hamas’ attack on October 7.
Destructive storms and tornadoes roared through the Plains Monday, As some communities pick up the pieces, new ones must prepare for the threat for strong tornadoes in the Midwest.
Inflation-battered Argentina on Tuesday introduced a 10,000-peso banknote, worth the equivalent of about $11 -- five times the face value of the previous biggest 2,000-peso bill.The issuing of high-domination banknotes is nothing new in Argentina, which had a bill with a face value of 1,000,000 pesos in the 1980s. mry/mlr/sst
A shooting outside Drake's Toronto mansion early Tuesday morning left a security guard seriously injured, police said.
Bernard Polite is accused of trying to shoot a pastor at Jesus’ Dwelling Place Church. The pastor reveals what happened after the suspect was tackled.
In sweltering Brazil, worst-ever flooding killed dozens of people and paralyzed a city of about 4 million people. Voters and politicians in the world's largest election in India are fainting in heat that hit as high as 115 degrees (46.3 degrees Celsius). A brutal Asian heat wave has closed schools in the Philippines, killed people in Thailand and set records there and in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Maldives and Myanmar.
House Speaker Mike Johnson and GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene are meeting again on Tuesday as the Georgia congresswoman continues to dangle the threat of an ouster vote against the speaker.
The highly caffeinated drink has been blamed for at least two deaths in lawsuits.
The United States announced Tuesday it had brought back two dozen Western citizens, half of them Americans, from Islamic State prison camps in northeastern Syria where tens of thousands have languished.The United States in the same operation facilitated the repatriation of six Canadian citizens, four Dutch citizens and one Finnish citizen, eight of them children, he said.
“This is not what we’ve been worried about,” said a U.S. official.
UN atomic watchdog chief Rafael Grossi on Tuesday decried "completely unsatisfactory" cooperation from Tehran after returning from Iran where he urged leaders to adopt "concrete" measures to address concerns over its nuclear programme.- 'Tangible measures' - Earlier on Tuesday, at a news conference in the Iranian city of Isfahan, Grossi said he had proposed to Iranian officials that they "focus on the very concrete, very practical and tangible measures that can be implemented in order to acceler
Environmental groups accused ArcelorMittal of greenwashing a day ahead of the arrival in France Wednesday of the Olympic flame in a torch forged with low-carbon steel from the world's second-largest steelmaker."While ArcelorMittal prioritises shareholder returns and fossil fuel-based steel production over climate action, it consistently presents itself as a green champion, notably as an official sponsor of this year's Olympic Games in France, where it has provided 'low carbon' steel for the Olym
US, UK and Australian authorities on Tuesday announced sanctions and criminal charges against a 31-year-old Russian man for being the alleged mastermind of a cybercriminal group that has extorted $500 million in ransom payments from thousands of victim organizations in the US and worldwide.
Cleary Gottlieb investigators are slated to brief Republicans on the House Financial Services Committee on the report on Thursday morning.
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