United States

• Thursday, November 1st 2018 - 08:46 UTC

  Trump makes immigration and birthrights leading issue of midterm election next week

  

  President Donald Trump is intensifying his hard line immigration rhetoric heading into the midterm elections, 6 November, declaring that he wants to order an end to the constitutional right to citizenship for babies of non-citizens and unauthorized immigrants born on US soil.

• Wednesday, October 31st 2018 - 18:47 UTC

  Pompeo speaks with Bolsonaro of “vibrant partnership” between Brazil, US

  

  US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Monday congratulated Brazil's President-Elect Jair Bolsonaro for his victory and “reinforced the vibrant partnership between the United States and Brazil based on our mutual commitment to promote security, democracy, economic prosperity, and human rights,” it was reported.

• Wednesday, October 31st 2018 - 14:12 UTC

  US Treasury: Maduro's Venezuela an economic, environmental threat to the region

  

  The United States Treasury Department's assistant secretary for terrorist financing has said Venezuela was a clear threat to regional stability and warned that the economic collapse of Nicolás Maduro's government could drag down Brazil, Argentina and Colombia, all key US allies.

• Wednesday, October 31st 2018 - 08:52 UTC

  Beijing concerned a weaker Yuan could further trigger trade war with the U.S.

  

  The Chinese Yuan weakened to a decade low on Tuesday on concerns over China's slowing economy and the US trade war, but Beijing was expected to prevent it breaking the psychologically important 7 Yuan per dollar barrier. The Yuan drifted past 6.96 to the dollar, hitting its weakest levels since May 2008.

• Wednesday, October 31st 2018 - 08:46 UTC

  Powerball lottery US$ 688m tickets sold in Manhattan and a rural town in Iowa

  

  The co-owner of a Manhattan deli in New York, where someone purchased one of two Powerball tickets that hit the US$ 688 million jackpot said he likely sold the winning ticket, but he has no idea who won.

• Tuesday, October 30th 2018 - 11:00 UTC

  Bolsonaro pledges to help the Venezuelan people end the dictatorship but through peaceful means

  

  The president elect of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro in his first television interview as president elect said it was necessary to solve the problem of the Venezuela dictatorship of Nicolas Maduro, but underlined “there will be no intervention in Caracas, it will be through peaceful means”.

• Tuesday, October 30th 2018 - 07:42 UTC

  Trump sends troops to Mexico border; double the number fighting ISIS in Syria

  

  The Pentagon said on Monday it is sending 5,200 troops, some armed, to the Southwest border this week in an extraordinary military operation to stop Central American migrants traveling north in two caravans that were still hundreds of miles from the U.S. The number of troops is more than double the 2,000 who are in Syria fighting the Islamic State group.

• Monday, October 29th 2018 - 08:04 UTC

  Cunard's flagship “Queen Mary 2” and HMS Queen Elizabeth meet in New York

  

  Cunard’s flagship ocean liner Queen Mary 2 had a rare meeting in New York Harbor on Sunday and paid tribute to British Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth during the carrier’s first visit to the U.S. The rendezvous between these renowned vessels celebrates the special relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom and their committed alliance.

• Saturday, October 27th 2018 - 09:48 UTC

  Suspect with a long criminal record charged with mailing explosives to critics of president Trump

  

  A man living in the state of Florida and with a decades-long criminal record was arrested and charged Friday with mailing at least 13 packages containing explosive devices to critics of President Donald Trump, authorities said.

• Saturday, October 27th 2018 - 09:43 UTC

  Government and consumer spending boosts US economy in third quarter

  

  The US economy slowed less than expected in the third quarter as a tariff-related drop in soybean exports was partially offset by the strongest consumer spending in nearly four years, keeping it on track to hit the Trump administration’s 3% growth target this year.