By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. House Republicans turned aside an attempt by hardline conservatives to force an impeachment vote against President Joe Biden on Thursday, in the first of what could prove to be a series of impeachment efforts by members of the far right. The House of Representatives voted 219-208 along party…
By Khalid Abdelaziz PORT SUDAN (Reuters) – Elsafi Mahdi was separated from his wife and three younger children on June 1 near Sudan’s border with Egypt. He does not know when he’ll see them again. Like many families fleeing the war in the capital Khartoum, Mahdi, a prominent music teacher and conductor, left home without…
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Donald Trump’s push for a new trial in the civil case in which a Manhattan jury last month found the former U.S. president had sexually abused and defamed the writer E. Jean Carroll is “magical thinking,” Carroll’s lawyers said on Thursday. Trump, the front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential…
By Howard Schneider and Ann Saphir WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said on Thursday the central bank would move interest rates at a “careful pace” from here as policymakers edge towards a stopping point for their historic round of monetary policy tightening. “We’re at least close to where we think our…
By John Kruzel and Andrew Chung WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday dealt a setback to the Navajo Nation, rejecting its bid to require the federal government to develop a plan to secure water access for the tribe on reservation lands in the parched American southwest. The justices, in a 5-4 decision…
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Thursday he had discussed the war between Russia and Ukraine and an upcoming BRICS summit with his South African counterpart Cyril Ramaphosa as they met in Paris. Ramaphosa recently led a delegation of African leaders to Russia and Kyiv seeking to share…
By Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States on Wednesday adjourned Sudan talks because the format was not succeeding in the way they wanted, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Molly Phee said on Thursday. Saudi Arabia and the U.S. have brokered ceasefires between Sudan’s army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF)…
GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) – Former Guatemalan first lady Sandra Torres leads her competitors in the Central American country’s presidential race, according to a poll published Thursday by newspaper Prensa Libre, the last before Sunday’s election. Torres, a third-time presidential contender whose late husband President Alvaro Colom governed from 2008 to 2012, drew 21.3% of voter…
(Reuters) – The U.S. Coast Guard on Thursday said a debris field was discovered within the search area by a remotely operated vehicle near the Titanic. Experts within the unified command were evaluating the information, the Coast Guard said. (Reporting by Gursimran Kaur in Bengaluru; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s top electoral court on Thursday decided to adjourn a trial that could leave former President Jair Bolsonaro in the political wilderness for nearly a decade, with the session set to be resumed on Tuesday of next week. Bolsonaro, a far-right nationalist who in October narrowly lost Brazil’s most fraught election in…
