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...US consumers paid almost 50 per cent more in credit card expenses last year than in 2020, the year before President Joe Biden took office, putting pressure on family budgets and firing up an election issue...
...The new Republican majority in the US House of Representatives is set to take office next week amid a swirl of division and controversy, as leader Kevin McCarthy rushes to overcome internal opposition to...
...An explosive federal police investigation this week revealed just how close Latin America’s largest nation came to a democratic rupture....
...Linked to this, the Office for Budget Responsibility publishes its economic forecast....
...Masimo has separately sued Apple in federal court alleging trade secret violations. A trial in that case ended with a hung jury in May....
...The groups demanded a halt to such practices if the Ivy League school is to continue to receive federal funds....
...For example, the University of Texas in Dallas renamed its DEI office the “office of campus resources and support”. Other states are making plans for anti-DEI bills....
...The public defender’s office for the state of Alagoas told the FT that it believed each victim should be paid R$70,000 and it expected to launch legal proceedings at the start of 2024....
...The man behind the first federal indictment against a former US president was not in the front row at Donald Trump’s court hearing on Tuesday....
...activists hoped might have led to Trump being constitutionally barred from standing for office....
...It remains legal tender and federal rounding guidelines for businesses were issued along with the bill....
...Comerica and Utah-based Zions Bancorp were among the biggest fallers on the S&P 500 index, dropping 12.4 per cent and 10.8 per cent respectively....
...Her brother Adam is a former federal prosecutor in the southern district of New York, while her sister Fran began as a public defender and now practises at the family firm....
...Unions are rightly seen as defenders of a decent standard of living. Biden’s team is pushing Bidenomics....
...Emergency measures from the US Federal Reserve and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and a decision by the nation’s largest lenders to deposit $30bn into one of the hardest hit banks, First Republic...
...Germany needs 400,000 foreign workers every year to compensate for shortfalls in its labour market, according to the federal employment office....
...of the HMS Defender warship through Ukrainian waters....
...Gideon RachmanYou use the word, [and] defenders of these policies say, America have been suckers....
...DeSantis attacked Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney, as a “Soros-backed prosecutor” who was “pursuing a political agenda and weaponising the office”....
...All of it had been done at the behest of the Utah District Attorney’s office, which was trying to frame him in retaliation for critical blog posts he had once written....
...In a statement on Tuesday, the White House’s Office of Management and Budget urged Congress to move rapidly towards approving the legislation....
...Lula also intends to tackle destruction of the Amazon rainforest, which has surged since Bolsonaro assumed office nearly four years ago....
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...The US Federal Trade Commission will sue to block Microsoft’s $75bn acquisition of video game maker Activision Blizzard over concerns the deal could harm competitors to its Xbox consoles and cloud-gaming...
...It is not only backward looking but also forward looking, because if we have new tactics by the companies we will be able to catch them also,” said Andreas Mundt, head of the German Federal Cartel Office...
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