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(Reuters) — U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin remains hospitalized and is in good condition, the Pentagon said on Saturday, adding that it did not yet have a specific date for his release. “He’s in contact with his senior staff and has full access to required secure communications cap…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Former U.S. senator and secretary of state John Kerry will leave his post as President Joe Biden’s special climate envoy after three years but will help Biden’s re-election campaign, two administration sources said on Saturday. The decision by Kerry, 80, comes a m…

(Reuters) — A winter storm bringing snow, ice and high winds to parts of the U.S. Midwest and Pacific Northwest knocked out power for hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses on Saturday, with a brutal freeze expected to grip numerous states. The National Weather Service said the storm will br…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. congressional leaders have agreed on a two-tranche stopgap spending bill to keep the federal government funded into March and avert a partial government shutdown starting late next week, a source familiar with the measure told Reuters on Saturday. Politico, CNN and Punch…

(Reuters) — A woman and two children drowned in the Rio Grande as they tried to the enter the U.S. from Mexico on Friday night after Texas military officers prevented federal border officials from aiding them, according to U.S. border officials and a member of Congress. The deaths come as a dispute…

(Reuters) — U.S. bank regulators’ proposed new capital requirements for large banks, if finalized, would violate key federal laws and needlessly impose burdensome costs on 80% of assets in the country’s banking system, major industry lobby groups said on Friday. As a result, the proposa…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Major U.S. banks reported lower profits on Friday in a choppy fourth quarter clouded by special charges and job cuts, with signs an income boost from high interest rates is waning and some consumer loans are starting to sour. Still, the country’s largest lenders JPMorga…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The U.S. aviation regulator on Friday extended the grounding of Boeing 737 MAX 9 airplanes indefinitely for new safety checks and announced it will tighten oversight of Boeing itself after a cabin panel broke off a new jet in mid-flight. As United Airlines and Alaska Airlines…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday raised concerns over China’s human rights issues in a meeting with senior Chinese official Liu Jianchao in Washington, the State Department said, adding they also discussed “maintaining peace and stability” in…

ANKENY/URBANDALE, Iowa (Reuters) — Severe winter weather caused havoc for Republican presidential candidates in Iowa on Friday, three days before the party’s nominating race kicks off in the state. Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor, was forced to cancel all three of her events, …