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WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. regulators will begin grading banks on which communities and geographies they service via online lending under tougher new rules modernizing fair lending standards to be finalized on Tuesday. The changes to 1977 Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) regulations draw a line un…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. President Joe Biden and Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman held a call on Tuesday to discuss the war between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, the White House said in a statement. They agreed on pursuing broader diplomatic efforts “to maintain…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Emerging U.S. businesses in the energy transition supply chain such as hydrogen and wind power should act fast to avoid being dominated by China, a senior State Department official said on Tuesday. Geoffrey Pyatt, assistant secretary for energy resources at the State Departme…

NEW YORK (Reuters) — Donald Trump’s former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen testified on Tuesday that he manipulated the values of the former U.S. president’s real estate properties to match “whatever number Mr. Trump told us.” Testifying as a key witness in New York Attorney …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows was granted immunity to testify under oath in U.S. Special Counsel Jack Smith’s Jan. 6 case over the 2020 presidential election, ABC News reported on Tuesday, citing unnamed sources. ABC News reported Meadows, who served as…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Arab and Muslim Americans and their allies are criticizing President Joe Biden’s response to the Israel-Hamas war, asking him to do more to prevent a humanitarian crisis in Gaza or risk losing their support in the 2024 election. Many Arab Americans are upset Biden has n…

SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) — California on Tuesday ordered General Motors’ Cruise unit to remove its driverless cars from state roads, calling the vehicles a risk to the public and saying the company had “misrepresented” the safety of the technology. California’s Dep…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — President Joe Biden will not have his name on the New Hampshire Democratic primary ballot after the state refused to abide by new Democratic Party rules that South Carolina hold its primary contest first, the Biden re-election campaign said on Tuesday. The Democratic Party ha…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. intelligence officials have “high confidence” that an explosion at a Gaza hospital last week was caused by a Palestinian rocket that broke up mid-flight, and not by Israel, a U.S. official said on Tuesday. The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry said 471 people we…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. Republicans nominated Mike Johnson to lead the House of Representatives on Tuesday, though it was unclear whether he would merely become the latest hopeful to fall victim to party infighting that has paralyzed Congress for over three weeks. Representative Johnson, of Lou…