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Bezos slams Biden's call for gasoline stations to cut prices

Bezos slams Biden's call for gasoline stations to cut prices

-- 2022-07-04 13:17:44

Amazon.com Inc founder Jeff Bezos renewed his spat with the White House over the weekend, as the world's third-richest person criticized President Joe Biden for calling on companies running gasoline s...

US states may arrest women for crossing state lines to get abortions: Biden

US states may arrest women for crossing state lines to get abortions: Biden

-- 2022-07-02 23:10:15

US President Joe Biden predicted on Friday that some US states will try to arrest women for crossing state lines to get abortions after the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to the pro...

Mexico opens major oil refinery to cut dependence on foreign supplies

Mexico opens major oil refinery to cut dependence on foreign supplies

-- 2022-07-02 18:15:36

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador formally opened a major new oil refinery on Friday, a signature project for the leftist leader who argues it will help the country cut a longstanding depe...

New York bans guns in many public places after Supreme Court ruling

New York bans guns in many public places after Supreme Court ruling

-- 2022-07-02 10:32:44

New York state passed a law on Friday banning guns from many public places, including Times Square, and requiring gun-license applicants to prove their shooting proficiency and submit their social med...

Trump wanted to join Capitol riot, tried to grab limo steering wheel

Trump wanted to join Capitol riot, tried to grab limo steering wheel

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-06-29 11:37:32

Donald Trump tried to grab the steering wheel of his presidential limousine on Jan 6, 2021, when his security detail declined to take him to the US Capitol where his supporters were rioting, a former...

Three dead in Amtrak train crash and derailment in Missouri

Three dead in Amtrak train crash and derailment in Missouri

-- 2022-06-28 10:20:20

An Amtrak train carrying more than 200 passengers derailed in northern Missouri on Monday after hitting a dump truck at an uncontrolled crossing, killing two aboard and a person in the truck, and inju...

46 migrants found dead in Texas

46 migrants found dead in Texas

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-06-28 10:04:50

Authorities found 46 migrants dead inside a tractor-trailer on Monday in San Antonio, Texas, the city's fire department said, in what appears to be one of the most deadly recent incidents of human smu...

Ecuador cuts gasoline prices in latest concession to protesters

Ecuador cuts gasoline prices in latest concession to protesters

-- 2022-06-27 10:58:13

Ecuadorean President Guillermo Lasso said on Sunday he would cut prices for gasoline and diesel by 10 cents a gallon, the latest concession to try to end nearly two weeks of anti-government protests i...

Biden signs gun safety bill into law, takes swipe at Supreme Court

Biden signs gun safety bill into law, takes swipe at Supreme Court

-- 2022-06-26 10:56:27

US President Joe Biden on Saturday signed into law the first major federal gun reform in three decades, days after a decision he condemned by the Supreme Court expanding firearm owners' rights. "God...

US supreme court eliminates abortion rights, overturns 1973 ruling

US supreme court eliminates abortion rights, overturns 1973 ruling

-- 2022-06-24 20:45:18

The US Supreme Court on Friday took the dramatic step of overturning the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that recognised a woman's constitutional right to an abortion and legalised it nationwide, han...

US senate passes gun safety bill

US senate passes gun safety bill

-- 2022-06-24 19:46:19

A bipartisan package of modest gun safety measures passed the US Senate late on Thursday even as the Supreme Court broadly expanded gun rights by ruling Americans have a constitutional right to carry...

Deep rift lies behind Biden's criticism of oil and gas industry

Deep rift lies behind Biden's criticism of oil and gas industry

-- 2022-06-23 11:58:48

US President Joe Biden has publicly criticised oil and gas executives for banking big profits from high gasoline prices but he has rarely spoken directly to the heads of energy companies or their repr...

United States announces a temporary pay raise for firefighters

United States announces a temporary pay raise for firefighters

-- 2022-06-21 18:09:57

US President Joe Biden's administration announced on Tuesday a temporary pay raise for federal wildland firefighters, saying they were facing longer, more severe fires partly due to climate change and...

Apple store workers vote to form first US union

Apple store workers vote to form first US union

-- 2022-06-19 10:50:00

Workers at an Apple store in Maryland have voted to unionise, forming the tech giant's first retail union in the United States. The employees of the shop in Towson passed the measure 65-33, w...

Biden falls after flubbing bike dismount, but uninjured

Biden falls after flubbing bike dismount, but uninjured

-- 2022-06-19 09:02:18

US President Joe Biden took a spill from his bike on Saturday as he stopped to greet supporters during a weekend trip to Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. He appeared to be uninjured after standing up imme...

Remains of British journalist found in Amazon

Remains of British journalist found in Amazon

-- 2022-06-18 13:08:15

A forensic exam carried out on human remains found in the Amazon rainforest confirmed on Friday that they belonged to British journalist Dom Phillips, Brazil's federal police said, adding that a searc...

US, partners dismantle Russian hacking 'botnet,' Justice Dept says

US, partners dismantle Russian hacking 'botnet,' Justice Dept says

REUTERS 2022-06-17 11:47:45

Law enforcement in the United States, Germany, the Netherlands and Britain dismantled a global network of internet-connected devices that had been hacked by Russian cyber criminals and used for malici...

Dr Anthony Fauci tests positive for Covid-19

Dr Anthony Fauci tests positive for Covid-19

-- 2022-06-16 12:52:04

Dr Anthony Fauci, a public health official who became the face of US government efforts to contain the coronavirus pandemic, tested positive for Covid-19 on Wednesday, the National Institutes of Healt...

US rebuffs China by calling Taiwan Strait an international waterway

US rebuffs China by calling Taiwan Strait an international waterway

-- 2022-06-15 10:40:44

The United States on Tuesday backed Taiwan's assertion that the strait separating the island from China is an international waterway, a further rebuff to Beijing's claim to exercise sovereignty over t...

British journalist reportedly found dead in Brazil, but local police deny

British journalist reportedly found dead in Brazil, but local police deny

-- 2022-06-13 20:32:02

The bodies of British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, who had been missing for more than a week in Brazil's Amazon jungle, were reportedly found on Monday. Reuters gave t...

Biden plans to visit Saudi Arabia, Israel next month

Biden plans to visit Saudi Arabia, Israel next month

-- 2022-06-13 15:51:13

US President Joe Biden will travel to Saudi Arabia and Israel next month and the White House is planning to announce the trip this week, a source familiar with the planning said on Sunday. Biden's tr...

Quebec focuses on French speaking immigrants

Quebec focuses on French speaking immigrants

-- 2022-06-12 20:03:51

Quebec's plans to attract more French-speaking newcomers are unnerving some business owners who say they need immigrants from varied backgrounds to address a tight labour market in the Canadian provin...

China becoming more 'coercive and aggressive': US defence chief

China becoming more 'coercive and aggressive': US defence chief

-- 2022-06-11 13:49:06

The United States will do its part to manage tensions with China and prevent conflict even though Beijing is becoming increasingly aggressive in the Asian region, including near Taiwan, US Defense Sec...

US drops Covid-19 testing requirements for incoming travellers

US drops Covid-19 testing requirements for incoming travellers

-- 2022-06-10 22:23:37

The United States will drop pre-departure COVID-19 international air testing requirements effective Sunday at 12:01 am after heavy lobbying from airlines and the travel industry. The Biden administra...

Migration pact to cap Americas summit buffeted by discord

Migration pact to cap Americas summit buffeted by discord

-- 2022-06-10 15:10:25

US President Joe Biden and fellow leaders of the Americas are set to pitch a plan designed to stem illegal migration and manage record migrant numbers as a regional summit roiled by diplomatic squabbl...

US Capitol riot hearing shows Trump allies, daughter rejected fraud claims

US Capitol riot hearing shows Trump allies, daughter rejected fraud claims

-- 2022-06-10 12:14:23

A congressional hearing into the US Capitol attack by Donald Trump's supporters trying to overturn his 2020 election defeat presented testimony on Thursday showing that close allies - even his daughte...

Dispute between gold miners in Peru leaves 14 people dead

Dispute between gold miners in Peru leaves 14 people dead

-- 2022-06-09 14:31:31

Fourteen people died in an armed dispute between small-scale miners in a remote gold-mining town in southern Peru, authorities said Wednesday. The violence was the latest incidence of unrest in Peru'...

US ambassador says Washington, Moscow should not break off relations

US ambassador says Washington, Moscow should not break off relations

-- 2022-06-06 18:44:28

Russia should not close the US embassy despite the crisis triggered by the war in Ukraine because the world's two biggest nuclear powers must continue to talk, the US ambassador to Moscow was quoted a...

Nine dead in three mass shootings across United States

Nine dead in three mass shootings across United States

-- 2022-06-06 08:37:44

Shootings in three American cities killed nine people and wounded two dozen more on Saturday night and Sunday morning, the latest outbreaks of gun violence in the wake of three mass shootings that hav...

Three killed in latest mass shooting in US

Three killed in latest mass shooting in US

-- 2022-06-05 21:23:01

A mass shooting in Philadelphia left at least three people dead and 11 others wounded, police said on Sunday in the latest case of gun violence in the United States after recent massacres in Texas, Ne...