United States

• Friday, May 20th 2016 - 10:17 UTC

  Trump ahead of Hillary in new polls, but both candidates have record negatives

  

  Donald Trump has pulled ahead of Hillary Clinton in two new polls, as Republicans begin to coalesce around him while Bernie Sanders keeps hammering fellow Democrat Clinton. The real-estate tycoon leads the former secretary of state, 42% to 37%, in a general-election presidential match-up, according to a Rasmussen poll released Thursday.

• Thursday, May 19th 2016 - 12:02 UTC

  Minutes show Fed could be ready for an interest rate in June

  

  Federal Reserve officials consider the United States economy could be ready for another interest rate increase in June, according to the minutes from the central bank's April policy meeting released on Wednesday. Most participants in the policy-setting committee's April 26-27 meeting said they wanted to see signs that economic growth was picking up in the second quarter and that employment and inflation were firming, the minutes showed.

• Thursday, May 19th 2016 - 06:50 UTC

  Argentina and US reestablish defense links after a nine-year freeze

  

  Argentina and the United States are in the process of reestablishing strong defense links after a hiatus of seven years following this week's visit to the Pentagon of a high profile delegation from the ministry of defense which addressed several issues of mutual interest and common strategies.

• Wednesday, May 18th 2016 - 11:32 UTC

  US economy good news: inflation reaches 1.1% and housing starts rise 6.6%

  

  US consumer prices rose at their fastest pace in three years in April as energy prices climbed, figures show. The Labor Department's Consumer Price Index rose 0.4% last month, the biggest one-month increase since February 2013.

• Tuesday, May 17th 2016 - 07:16 UTC

  Cameron stands by his criticism of Trump: “stupid, divisive and wrong”

  

  Downing Street has said that Prime Minister David Cameron stands by his criticism of Donald Trump but will work with whoever is elected US president. UK PM has called the Republican hopeful “stupid, divisive and wrong” over his call for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the US.

• Friday, May 13th 2016 - 06:13 UTC

  US confident Brazil will address political challenges according to constitutional principles

  

  United States continues to follow political development in Brazil and is confident that the country will work through its political challenges democratically in accordance with its constitutional principles, said the State Department spokesperson on Thursday in reply to a question on current events in Brasilia.

• Friday, May 6th 2016 - 07:00 UTC

  Republican party orthodoxy waiting for a unifying message from the Trump challenge

  

  United States Speaker of the Lower House and one of the most powerful members of the Republican party, Paul D. Ryan thrust open Thursday the discomfort that many party members are feeling about Donald Trump as their presumed presidential nominee, withholding his support and deepening the fracture between the outsider candidate and the party he hopes to lead.

• Wednesday, May 4th 2016 - 07:49 UTC

  “We're going after Hillary Clinton”, says Trump as Cruz leaves the primary

  

  Texas Sen. Ted Cruz cleared the path on Tuesday night for Donald Trump to claim the Republican presidential nomination, suspending his underdog campaign following a crushing defeat in the Indiana primary, allowing the billionaire businessman to effectively leave the raucous primary behind and turn his attention squarely to the general election.“We’re gonna win in November,” Trump said.

• Tuesday, May 3rd 2016 - 07:12 UTC

  Miami sea-food sentenced for falsely labeling Chilean salmon as Scottish

  

  A Miami-located seafood company was sentenced in a Federal Court for falsely labeling salmon in December 2012 in violation of the Lacey Act, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) informed.

• Monday, May 2nd 2016 - 08:39 UTC

  “Adonia”, the first US cruise vessel in fifty years to dock in Havana on Monday

  

  The first US cruise ship bound for Cuba in half a century set sail from Florida on Sunday, marking a new milestone in the rapprochement between Washington and Havana. The Adonia, a vessel from the Carnival cruise's Fathom line, raised its anchors and departed from Miami, the heart of the Cuban diaspora in the United States, around 4:00 pm.