DAKAR (Reuters) -Senegal has temporarily closed its consulates abroad following attacks on diplomatic missions in Bordeaux, Milan, Paris and New York among others, the foreign affairs ministry said on Tuesday. The closures were announced in the wake of deadly unrest that broke out after a leading opposition figure, Ousmane Sonko, was handed a two-year jail…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie will seek the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, according to a filing made on Tuesday with U.S. Federal Election Commission. Reuters was not able to immediately confirm the authenticity of the filing. (Reporting by Eric Beech; Editing by Tim Ahmann)
QUITO (Reuters) – Ecuadorean President Guillermo Lasso’s political movement Creating Opportunities will not field candidates for the country’s early presidential or legislative elections, it said on Tuesday. It also said it will not back other nominations or parties. Lasso, a conservative ex-banker, last week said he would not run as a candidate in presidential elections….
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said on Tuesday he has scheduled three briefings for senators on artificial intelligence, including the first classified briefing on the topic. In a letter to colleagues on Tuesday, the Democratic leader said senators need to deepen their understanding of artificial intelligence. “AI is already changing our world,…
By Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The deal to end the United States’ debt limit standoff was classic Joe Biden politics: eke out a narrow compromise from an ugly beginning and declare victory. Biden’s pact with Republican Kevin McCarthy suspends the $31.4 trillion U.S. debt ceiling, avoiding an economic crisis, in exchange for setting spending…
By Dave Graham MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexico’s ruling party comfortably captured a major historic stronghold of the opposition in an election on Sunday, consolidating President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s hold on power ahead of the battle to succeed him next year. Lopez Obrador’s leftist National Regeneration Movement (MORENA) won the State of Mexico gubernatorial contest…
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Three lawyers for former President Donald Trump left the U.S. Department of Justice Monday amid reports that federal prosecutors are wrapping up an investigation into whether he mishandled classified documents. The three lawyers – Lindsey Halligan, John Rowley and James Trusty – declined to answer questions as they…
By Edward McAllister and Diadie Ba DAKAR (Reuters) -Elhaji Cisse was busy on Friday, the day he was killed, tweeting hundreds of times as riots erupted beyond the walls of his compound in a busy suburb of Senegal’s capital Dakar. In one post, the 26-year-old student warned his 1,700 followers about security forces firing live…
By Nandita Bose and Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Elon Musk on Monday hosted Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the anti-vaccine activist and long-shot Democratic presidential hopeful, in his second Twitter Spaces event for a 2024 White House candidate. But unlike Republican Ron DeSantis’s glitch-plagued campaign launch on Twitter in May, the live audio chat with…
By Tim Reid (Reuters) – A growing number of contenders for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination could clear the way for a Donald Trump victory while throwing up roadblocks for his main rival Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, party members and strategists said. Republicans who fear Trump is too polarizing a figure to beat Democratic President…
