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Myanmar exiles ousted in a 2021 coup are pressing the Federal Reserve to endorse their bid to use US$1 billion (S$1.4 billion) in funds frozen by the US to back a digital currency and a plan to establish a new central bank. It's a…

As the midterm elections near, top Justice Department officials are weighing whether to temporarily scale back work in criminal investigations involving former President Donald Trump because of an unwritten rule forbidding overt actions…

The United States secretly manufactured biological weapons in Ukraine. It trained birds to carry viruses into Russia. It created Covid-19. It operated laboratories in Nigeria that engineered this year's outbreak of monkeypox. Of the many…

Ministers from 14 member states of the U.S.-led Indo-Pacific economic framework are expected to declare the start of formal negotiations this week in Los Angeles, informed sources say, as they work to codify a rules-based economic order in…

The U.S. State Department has approved a potential $1.1 billion sale of military equipment to Taiwan, the government said Friday, in the latest show of support for the self-ruled island amid heightened tensions with China. The sale…

Eight migrants drowned and 37 others were rescued as they tried to cross the raging waters of the Rio Grande to reach the United States, administration officials said Friday. The migrants were among scores of people crossing the river near…

The White House will ask Congress to provide additional aid for Ukraine in the fiscal year that begins Oct 1, as officials warn that earlier monies are running out with the effort to combat Russia's invasion now past its six-month mark.…

President Joe Biden hailed "more good news" after the latest government data showed US employers added a healthy number of jobs in August, even as a stream of people entering the job market pushed the unemployment rate higher. "The great…

Severe thunderstorms rolled through southern Michigan and north-west Ohio on Monday (Aug 29), leaving hundreds of thousands of customers without power in the region and killing three people, including an 11-year-old boy who was swept into a…

President Joe Biden plans to deliver a prime-time speech on Thursday (Sept 1) in Philadelphia assailing Republicans for what he regards as their threats to US rights and freedoms, seeking to buoy his own party's prospects in the upcoming…