WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Uruguay President Luis Lacalle Pou met with U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday, and the two leaders explored ways to expand bilateral trade and economic ties, the White House said. Lacalle Pou stopped in Washington for the previously unannounced meeting on his way to New York, where he was scheduled to attend…
By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) – The U.S. National Labor Relations Board on Tuesday made it more difficult for companies to treat workers as independent contractors rather than employees, handing workers in the gig economy and other industries a potential path to join unions. The Democrat-led board threw out a more business-friendly standard for classifying workers…
By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. House of Representatives returned to the job of legislating on Tuesday, after a week-long standoff between Speaker Kevin McCarthy and a small group of hardline Republican conservatives ended in a temporary truce. The Republican-controlled chamber first voted 219-210 on a gun rights bill favored by McCarthy’s hardline critics,…
By Steven Grattan ITAJAI, Brazil (Reuters) – Last November, just hours before a social gathering for Haitian immigrants in the town of Itajai in the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina, event organizer Andrea Muller received a chilling message. “Cancel the Haiti exhibition or we will commit a massacre,” read the subject line of the…
By Zeba Siddiqui (Reuters) – A U.S. surveillance program aimed at countering foreign threats that intelligence officials have used to spy on Americans faced resistance from both Republicans and Democrats at a Senate hearing to discuss its renewal on Tuesday. President Joe Biden’s administration has backed renewal of the program, effected through the 2008 statute…
(Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called for tougher sanctions to halt the flow of components used in Russian missiles, saying it was cheaper to stop their transfer than to improve anti-aircraft systems against their deployment. It was the second time in a little more than a week that Zelenskiy had called for tightened rules…
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The top Republican on a U.S. Senate panel whose party rejected President Joe Biden’s nominee to head the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), on Tuesday urged Biden to pick a new nominee, saying the delay puts passengers at risk. The FAA has been without a permanent administrator since April 2022. Biden’s…
By Vitalii Hnidyi NESKUCHNE, Ukraine (Reuters) -Ukraine’s blue and yellow flag flew over a ruined grocery store and Russian soldiers lay dead in the street of the village of Neskuchne, reached by Reuters journalists on Tuesday in the first independent confirmation of Ukraine’s biggest advances for seven months against Russia’s invasion. Russia has not acknowledged…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Three guests at the White House’s Pride party on Saturday have been banned from future events after going topless on the South Lawn, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Tuesday. “The behavior was simply unacceptable. We’ve been very clear about that. It was unfair to the hundreds of attendees who were there to…
By Jack Queen (Reuters) – Former President Donald Trump has been indicted for illegally retaining classified government documents after leaving office in 2021. Here is a rundown of what this means for his 2024 presidential campaign. WILL THE INDICTMENT PREVENT TRUMP FROM CAMPAIGNING OR TAKING OFFICE? None of the charges would bar Trump from taking…
