United States

• Friday, November 29th 2019 - 09:19 UTC

  EU approves increase in US beef imports to ease bilateral trade tensions

  

  European Union lawmakers approved an increase in U.S. beef imports to the EU on Thursday, a move likely to ease transatlantic tensions. But they also criticized tariffs imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump on metal imports and a threat he has made to target EU cars and car parts.

• Thursday, November 28th 2019 - 08:45 UTC

  Brazil nominates career diplomat to be ambassador in US; Bolsonaro's son wish over

  

  Brazil’s government on Tuesday sent to the Senate the nomination of career-diplomat Nestor Forster to be ambassador to the United States, ending a saga in which President Jair Bolsonaro tried to nominate his own son for the role.

• Wednesday, November 27th 2019 - 09:47 UTC

  Bolivia names its first ambassador to United States in eleven years

  

  Bolivia appointed its first ambassador to the United States in 11 years on Tuesday, officials said, as the interim government resets the country's foreign policy after the departure of Evo Morales.

• Wednesday, November 27th 2019 - 09:45 UTC

  Death rate increase among working age Americans: stress, health care costs...?

  

  After rising for decades, life expectancy in the U.S. decreased for three straight years, driven by higher rates of death among middle-aged Americans, a new study suggests.

• Monday, November 25th 2019 - 07:39 UTC

  Bloomberg confirms he wants to reach the White House, pushing aside extremists and cons

  

  Industrious billionaire, a three-term mayor of New York and a climate change activist, Michael Bloomberg is now eyeing one last prize: the US presidency. The 77-year-old giant of the financial world officially announced that he was joining the race for the 2020 Democratic nomination on Sunday, but he has some catching up to do.

• Monday, November 25th 2019 - 06:29 UTC

  US, a source of instability and “baselessly smearing China” blasts top Beijing official

  

  The United States is the world's biggest source of instability and its politicians are going around the world baselessly smearing China, the Chinese government's top diplomat said on Saturday in a stinging attack at a G20 meeting in Japan.

• 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 - 09:45 UTC

  Mexican government helping its citizens file lawsuits against Walmart over racial shootings

  

  Mexico's government said on Wednesday it has helped 10 Mexican citizens file lawsuits against Walmart over an August shooting at a store in El Paso, Texas, where a suspected white nationalist killed 22 people.

• 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.