Tag: United States

• Friday, November 22nd 2019 - 09:38 UTC

  President Trump wants an impeachment trial in the US Senate, “the only chamber he can expect fairness”

  

  President Donald Trump wants an impeachment trial to go forward in the US Senate because he would receive due process there and he expects Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden would be among the witnesses, a White House spokesman said on Thursday.

• Friday, November 22nd 2019 - 09:11 UTC

  US Congress wants to investigate Brazil's meatpacking giant JBS

  

  A top United States Democratic congresswoman on Thursday asked the Agriculture Department (USDA) to investigate and retract tens of millions of dollars in federal contracts with the U.S. subsidiary of a Brazilian meatpacking company facing federal corruption charges.

• Thursday, November 21st 2019 - 09:48 UTC

  EU Security Council members and Vatican question US decision on Israeli settlements

  

  European members of the UN Security Council hit out on Wednesday at the US decision to no longer consider Israeli settlements illegal but stopped short of naming the United States. The Vatican also expressed that the search for peace between Israelis had been put at risk.

• Thursday, November 21st 2019 - 09:21 UTC

  Fed dismisses the idea of negative interest rates, despite Trump's insistence, according to released minutes

  

  US central bankers last month dismissed the idea of taking interest rates into negative territory, something President Donald Trump has called for many times, according to meeting minutes released on Wednesday.

• Thursday, November 21st 2019 - 09:04 UTC

  Biogen, Novartis, Teva involved in major kickback controversy with US Medicare

  

  A Florida-based charity will pay US$4 million to resolve claims that it acted as a conduit for companies including Biogen Inc and Novartis AG to pay kickbacks to Medicare patients using their high-priced multiple sclerosis drugs, the U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday.

• Wednesday, November 20th 2019 - 09:55 UTC

  Brazil's Real depreciating against the US dollar, but inflation remains below target

  

  Brazil’s Real is sliding toward an all-time low against the U.S. dollar, but the central bank appears in no rush to intervene to slow or even reverse the fall. Despite the Real’s historical weakness, the market is functioning smoothly: depreciation, so far, has been fairly orderly, volatility is low, liquidity has not dried up, and the Real is not the only emerging market currency under pressure.

• Wednesday, November 20th 2019 - 09:29 UTC

  Trump again threatens China with higher tariffs if no deal is reached

  

  The United States would raise tariffs on Chinese imports if no deal is reached with Beijing to end a trade war, US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday, threatening an escalation of the spat that has damaged economic growth worldwide.

• Wednesday, November 20th 2019 - 08:49 UTC

  FBI regrets not having acted more swiftly in the intellectual property dispute with Beijing

  

  The FBI wished it had taken swifter action as Beijing recruited US-based researchers to transfer intellectual property from American laboratories, a senior official at the agency said on Tuesday during Senate testimony.

• Monday, November 18th 2019 - 09:30 UTC

  Trump in very good health, after first medical checkup

  

  Despite all of his political and courts wrangling, US President Donald Trump said on Sunday that he was in very good health, after undergoing what he said was the first phase of an annual medical checkup the previous day.

• Friday, November 15th 2019 - 09:30 UTC

  US/UK scientific team on major mission to the Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica

  

  Nearly 100 scientists and support staff departed this week for the most ambitious mission to date for Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica.