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New York mayor says 'no room' in his city for migrants

Reuters 2023-01-16 09:28:58

The mayor of New York traveled to the Mexican border city of El Paso on Sunday and declared that "there is no room in New York" for busloads of migrants being sent to America's most populous city. Er...

Biden declares emergency for California due to winter storms

-- 2023-01-15 17:21:58

US President Joe Biden approved an emergency declaration for California on Saturday, as storms have pounded the Golden State since Dec 26, killing at least 19 people and bringing floods, power outages...

Biden's counsel finds five more classified pages at president's Delaware home

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-01-15 12:11:56

US President Joe Biden's counsel said on Saturday that five additional pages with classified markings were discovered at the president's Wilmington, Delaware, ...

Brazil top court to investigate Bolsonaro role in Brasilia riots

-- 2023-01-14 13:38:14

Brazil's Supreme Court agreed on Friday to open an investigation into former President Jair Bolsonaro for allegedly encouraging anti-democratic protests that ended in the storming of government buildi...

US nears new cooperation deals with Pacific Island nations

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-01-14 12:58:57

The Biden administration is nearing deals with two Pacific Island nations to extend ties that are considered critical to maintaining balance in the US-China rivalry for influence in a region where the...

Donald Trump’s company sentenced to pay $1.61 million penalty for tax fraud

-- 2023-01-13 21:38:00

A court in the United States on Friday sentenced Donald Trump’s namesake real estate company to pay a maximum $1.61 million criminal penalty after it was convicted of scheming to defraud tax aut...

Donald Trump’s company to be sentenced for 15-year tax fraud

-- 2023-01-13 18:00:56

Former US president Donald Trump on Friday will learn how the company that bears the former US president's name will be punished after being found guilty of scheming to defraud tax authorities for 15...

Black Lives Matter founder's cousin dies after Los Angeles police arrest

-- 2023-01-13 14:15:08

A cousin of Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors died hours after he was repeatedly Tasered and restrained in the street by Los Angeles police. Keenan Anderson, 31, a teacher an...

Thousands march in Peru capital demanding president step down

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-01-13 11:02:12

Thousands took to the streets of Peru's capital Lima on Thursday in a peaceful protest against the new government and president, after weeks of bloody clashes triggered by the ousting of former...

Lula to purge Bolsonaro loyalists from Brazilian security forces after rampage

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-01-13 10:35:51

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Thursday that security force members were complicit in letting an anti-government mob ransack the seat of power in Brasilia, and promised to w...

US flights gradually resuming departures following system outage

-- 2023-01-11 22:29:27

US flights were slowly beginning to resume departures and a ground stop was lifted after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) scrambled to fix a system outage overnight that had forced a halt to...

US aviation system faces outage, leading to delays in flights

-- 2023-01-11 19:02:37

US flights were delayed and airports told passengers to check with their airlines for updates on Wednesday as the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) scrambled to fix a system outage. The FAA said...

US to max out on debt soon, setting up political fight

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-01-11 15:21:45

The federal government is on track to max out on its $31.4 trillion borrowing authority as soon as this month, starting the clock on an expected standoff between President Joe Biden and the new House...

Brazilian judge orders arrest of Bolsonaro's ex-minister

-- 2023-01-11 13:52:35

A Brazilian Supreme Court judge ordered the arrest on Tuesday of the capital's most recent public security chief after supporters of right-wing former President Jair Bolsonaro led a rampage through go...

Longtime Trump CFO Weisselberg gets 5 months in jail in tax fraud case

Reuters 2023-01-11 09:15:42

Allen Weisselberg, a longtime executive for Donald Trump and the star prosecution witness in the Trump Organization's criminal trial, was sentenced on Tuesday to five months behind bars for helping en...

Emergency declared in California as winter storms continue

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-01-10 12:32:54

US President Joe Biden has declared an emergency in California as winter storms continue to pummel the most populous state in the country on Monday. According to a statement released by the White Hou...

More than 7,000 nurses go on strike in New York City

-- 2023-01-10 12:30:44

Thousands of nurses at two New York City hospitals went on strike on Monday after contract negotiations stalled over pay and staffing levels, a move that caused one of the facilities to postpone proce...

1,500 supporters detained after Brasilia riots

-- 2023-01-10 12:18:17

Far-right former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was admitted to a hospital in Florida on Monday with stomach pains as 1,500 of his supporters were rounded up in Brasilia after storming key buildin...

Prince Harry accuses Camilla of 'dangerous' leaks to media

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-01-10 10:59:49

Prince Harry has accused his stepmother, Camilla, the queen consort, of leaking private conversations to the media to burnish her own reputation as he promotes a new book that lays bare his story of h...

Protesters demand justice for college student shot by police in US

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-01-10 10:42:52

Expressing anger and frustration, several hundred protesters on Monday demanded justice for a Bangladeshi American college student who was shot and killed by police in the Boston suburb of Cambridge l...

Brazil police amass at camp of Bolsonaro’s backers after capital stormed

-- 2023-01-09 22:19:06

Brazilian police amassed at a camp of supporters of far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro in the capital on Monday, a day after rioters launched the worst attack on Brazil's state institutions sin...

Brazil investigates who led anti-democratic riots in capital

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-01-09 11:57:26

Brazil's Supreme Court late on Sunday removed the governor of Brasilia from office for 90 days due to flaws in security in the capital, after thousands of backers of far-right former presid...

Biden condemns 'assault on democracy' in Brazil

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-01-09 09:46:50

US President Joe Biden on Sunday condemned "the assault on democracy" in Brazil after supporters of far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro invaded the country's Congress, presidential...

Bolsonaro supporters invade Brazil presidential palace, Congress, Supreme Court

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-01-09 09:38:01

Supporters of Brazil's far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro on Sunday invaded the country's Congress, presidential palace and Supreme Court in Brasilia, in a grim echo of the US...

Biden to visit US-Mexico border first time since taking office

-- 2023-01-08 21:55:15

US President Joe Biden will visit the US-Mexico border on Sunday for the first time since taking office nearly two years ago, tackling one of the most politically charged issues in the country as he p...

Heavy rains and snow clobber California and more is on the way

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-01-08 10:30:45

Yet another "atmospheric river" of dense, moist tropical air will clobber California on Monday with rain and mountain snow - the fifth of the weather phenomenon since Christmas -...

One dead, 57 injured in accident on Mexico City metro

Reuters 2023-01-08 09:24:58

At least one person was killed and 57 were injured in a train collision on Mexico City's metro early on Saturday, local authorities said. The person killed in the morning accident was a young woman,...

Biden faces Israel quandary with new Netanyahu government

-- 2023-01-07 17:38:41

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new government is little more than a week old but it's already giving the Biden administration headaches. Just days into its mandate, a controversial membe...

At least 29 killed in Mexico capture of Chapo's son; US extradition not guaranteed

-- 2023-01-07 09:54:55

Nineteen suspected gang members and 10 military personnel were killed in a wave of violence surrounding the arrest of Mexican drug cartel boss Ovidio Guzman in the northern...

US House speaker fight enters fourth day amid antebellum-era dysfunction

-- 2023-01-06 18:52:30

Republican Kevin McCarthy's perilous quest to become speaker of the US House of Representatives entered the fourth day on Friday, with a scale of congressional dysfunction not seen since before the US...