Tag: Government policy
Analysis: Violence upends Biden’s Israel-Palestinian outlook
<p>WASHINGTON — The surge in Israeli-Palestinian violence has flummoxed the Biden administration in its first four months as it attempts to craft a Middle...
US files first trade complaint with Mexico under USMCA
<p>MEXICO CITY — The United States filed its first labor complaint with Mexico Wednesday under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement, after an old-guard union was...
US hits China and others for repressing religious freedom
<p>WASHINGTON — The Biden administration on Wednesday took aim at China and a number of other countries for repressing religious freedom as it forges...
Facebook-backed digital currency project Diem shifts to US
<p>A once-ambitious Facebook-backed digital currency project — formerly known as Libra, now called Diem — is shifting operations from Switzerland to the U.S. and...
Analysis: Violence upends Biden’s Israel-Palestinian outlook
WASHINGTON — The surge in Israeli-Palestinian violence has flummoxed the Biden administration in its first four months as it attempts to craft a Middle...
Australia plans big defense and security investments
<p>CANBERRA, Australia — The Australian government released a big-spending economic plan for the next fiscal year on Tuesday that includes hefty investments in defense...
Migrant children held in mass shelters with little oversight
<p>The Biden administration is holding tens of thousands of asylum-seeking children in an opaque network of some 200 facilities that The Associated Press has...
Top Fed official says Fed far from achieving its goals
<p>WASHINGTON — A top Federal Reserve official says the outlook for the U.S. economy is bright but the recent jobs report is a reminder...
Beyond vaccines, UNESCO seeks share more global science
<p>PARIS — While the U.S. president is calling for suspending patents on COVID-19 vaccines, experts at UNESCO are quietly working on a more ambitious...
Turkish FM in Saudi Arabia to mend ties amid regional shifts
<p>DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Turkey’s top diplomat met with his counterpart in Saudi Arabia Tuesday on his first official trip in years, as...