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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) — President Joe Biden’s administration wants to work with Congress to improve the United States’ flagship trade program with Africa, not just renew it without changes, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Friday. First launched in 2000, the African Growt…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The U.S. House of Representatives easily passed a bill on Friday to bolster sanctions on Iranian oil in a strong bipartisan vote. The Stop Harboring Iranian Petroleum (SHIP) bill, which passed 342-69, would impose measures on foreign ports and refineries that process petroleu…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The United States will provide $425 million worth of additional arms and equipment to Ukraine for its ongoing fight against Russia’s invasion, the Biden administration announced on Friday. The package uses the last of the funds in the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiat…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. officials are making intense efforts to gain the release of hostages held by Hamas militants in Gaza, but there is no guarantee of success or a timeframe, a senior Biden administration official said on Friday. The official, briefing reporters on condition of anonymity, s…

(Reuters) — A U.S. appeals court on Friday upheld an Illinois state ban on assault-style weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines enacted after a 2022 mass shooting in Chicago’s Highland Park suburb that left seven people dead and dozens more wounded. In a 2-1 vote, a three-judge panel …

(Reuters) — Lendlease Group and Alphabet’s Google reached a mutual agreement to end development services deals for four master-planned districts in the San Francisco Bay Area, the Australian developer said on Friday. Lendlease bagged the contract from Google in 2019 to develop the $15 billion…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Chilean President Gabriel Boric, who this week condemned Israeli military’s air bombardment of Gaza and recalled his envoy to Israel, on Thursday said he told President Joe Biden that Israel’s actions were violating international law. Boric said he condemned the O…

NEW YORK (Reuters) — FBI agents searched the home of New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ chief election campaign fundraiser, Brianna Suggs, on Thursday, and she was questioned by public corruption investigators, city officials and local media reported. The New York Times, citing a search warrant,…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday passed a Republican plan to provide $14.3 billion in aid to Israel and cut funding of the Internal Revenue Service, despite Democrats’ insistence it has no future in the Senate and the White House’s promise of a veto. …

NEW YORK (Reuters) — Elon Musk asked a federal judge on Thursday not to force him to testify in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s probe into his $44 billion takeover of social media site Twitter. Musk filed the objections in San Francisco federal court, where the SEC sued him on O…