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(Reuters) — Boston Federal Reserve Bank President Susan Collins on Thursday said she believes the U.S. central bank will likely cut interest rates by three-quarters of a percentage point this year, starting once data confirms inflation is on path to 2% amid a strong labor market. “I do expect…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Sequoia Capital China, Qualcomm Ventures and three other venture capital firms plowed at least $3 billion into Chinese tech companies that support Beijing’s military and its repression of minorities in Xinjiang, a U.S. congressional report alleged on Thursday. The House…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — An “elderly” President Joe Biden will not face charges for knowingly taking classified documents when he left the vice presidency in 2017, a prosecutor said on Thursday, drawing a swift rebuke from the president as he seeks reelection. Special Counsel Robert Hur s…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. President Joe Biden mistakenly referred on Wednesday to a conversation he had with Angela Merkel in 2021 as having taken place with the late German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who died in 2017, his second such mix-up this week. At a New York reception that raised money for h…

(Reuters) — The Biden administration is considering restricting imports of Chinese “smart cars” and related components amid growing U.S. concerns about data security, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. The measures would also apply to electric v…

(Reuters) — Donald Trump won Republican presidential nominating caucuses in Nevada and the U.S. Virgin Islands on Thursday, moving closer to becoming his party’s White House standard-bearer and a likely general election rematch with U.S. President Joe Biden in November. Trump, the frontrunner…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Marianne Williamson, the self-help author who gained little traction in her bid to challenge President Joe Biden for the Democratic presidential nomination, dropped out of the race on Wednesday night. Williamson, 71, had focused much attention on New Hampshire’s Democra…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on Ecuador criminal group Los Choneros and its leader, the U.S. Treasury Department said in a statement. WHY IT’S IMPORTANT Rising violence in Ecuador culminated last month in President Daniel Noboa launching a military c…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Donald Trump’s lawyers on Thursday bring his fight against a campaign to kick him off state presidential ballots for his actions involving the 2021 Capitol attack to the U.S. Supreme Court in a case with major implications for the November election. The nine justices, t…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Three U.S. senators on Wednesday urged the Biden administration not to strip the Defense Department of key spectrum used for military radar systems in favor of 5G commercial wireless use. Republican Deb Fischer, Democrat Mazie Hirono and independent Angus King, who all serve …