After weeks of political impasse, tense negotiations and mounting economic anxiety, the Senate on Thursday (June 1) night gave final approval to bipartisan legislation suspending the debt limit and imposing new spending caps, sending it to…
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Debate on a bipartisan bill to suspend the debt limit and impose spending caps moved Thursday (June 1) to the Senate, where leaders of both parties were racing to shut down efforts to derail it in time to clear it for President Joe Biden’s…
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The House on Wednesday (May 31) overwhelmingly passed legislation negotiated by President Joe Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy to suspend the debt ceiling and set federal spending limits, as a broad bipartisan coalition lined up to cast a…
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Sudan’s army has withdrawn from talks aimed at achieving a full ceasefire and delivering humanitarian aid across the country, it said on Wednesday (May 31), raising the spectre of escalating clashes as a war between rival generals rages for…
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A bipartisan deal to suspend the federal debt ceiling advanced on Tuesday (30) night toward a climactic House vote despite a rebellion by hard-right Republicans who said the party was squandering a chance to force fundamental changes in…
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Explosions echoed across Ukraine’s capital for hours before dawn Sunday (28) as air defence teams raced to combat the largest swarm of Russian attack drones targeting Kyiv since the war began more than 15 months ago
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President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Saturday (27) reached an agreement in principle to lift the debt limit for two years while cutting and capping some government spending over the same period, a breakthrough after a…
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A newly released cache of FBI files has revealed a potential plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II during her 1983 visit to California
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Fighting between forces loyal to Sudan's rival generals on Friday (26) rocked the western region of Darfur, witnesses said, on the fourth day of a fragile US- and Saudi-brokered ceasefire
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While a bipartisan majority of the American public believes Russia’s war in Ukraine is unjustified, support for providing Ukraine with weapons has dropped over the past 12 months, according to a new poll released this week by the University…
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