By Jeff Mason and Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden has urged both sides in the West Coast ports labor dispute to continue collective bargaining, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said on Wednesday, adding acting Labor Secretary Julie Su was actively engaging with the parties. The largest terminal at Southern California’s…
By Jeff Mason and Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden has urged both sides in the West Coast ports labor dispute to continue collective bargaining, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said on Wednesday, adding acting Labor Secretary Julie Su was actively engaging with the parties. The largest terminal at Southern California’s…
By Michael Martina WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democratic and Republican U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday urged the State Department to bar Hong Kong’s chief executive, who faces U.S. sanctions, from visiting San Francisco during November’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit. The United States is set to host this year’s gathering of leaders of APEC, of which Hong Kong…
PARIS (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron appointed on Wednesday his former foreign minister as personal envoy to Lebanon just a year after he stepped down and having previously not been able to make any inroads in the political deadlock in the country. Macron led international efforts after a massive explosion that killed more than…
By Joseph Ax (Reuters) -North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum entered the 2024 Republican presidential race on Wednesday touting the small town values he would bring to Washington and expanding a crowded field of candidates led by a big city mogul, Donald Trump. Burgum, 66, a former software company executive, is largely unknown beyond his state,…
BERLIN (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy expressed shock at what he said was the failure of the United Nations and the Red Cross to help after the destruction of the massive Kakhovka dam as his prime minister called for aid from international agencies. Although the catastrophe happened many hours ago, “they aren’t here”, Zelenskiy…
By Tatiana Gomozova and Alexander Paramoshin BELGOROD, Russia (Reuters) – A week after fleeing her home in southern Russia to escape cross-border shelling from Ukraine, Irina Shevtsova is adjusting to life as a refugee inside her own country. Shevtsova is one of thousands of Russians who have abandoned their homes and taken shelter in Belgorod,…
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican prosecutors are investigating what the country’s president on Wednesday called an “execution” after soldiers were filmed beating and then shooting five men they pulled from a crashed pick-up truck. The investigation, confirmed by the defense ministry, follows the publication by media outlets on Tuesday of a video dated May 18…
By Ananya Mariam Rajesh (Reuters) -Campbell Soup shares dropped as much as 9% on Wednesday, after the company disappointed investors by maintaining its full-year forecasts for sales and profit despite beating quarterly earnings. Packaged food companies such as Campbell, Kraft Heinz and Kellogg Co have been raising prices to counter the impact of higher input…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, in remarks announcing his challenge to Donald Trump, said the then-president had asked him to choose between him and the U.S. Constitution following their 2020 election loss and that anyone who put themselves above the founding document should not be president. In a speech in Iowa…
