U.S. flexes muscles as Asia worries about South China Sea row
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – The United States stepped up pressure on China on Saturday to rein in its actions in the South China Sea, with top defense officials underlining Washington’s military superiority and vowing to remain the main guarantor of Asian se…
Treasury’s Lew: China pause on reforms would have ‘very bad consequences’
SEOUL (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said on Friday China would see “very bad consequences” for its economy and bilateral U.S. relations if it backs away from its stated goals to open its markets and rebalance its economy toward consumer-…
Trump campaigns in California, denounces protesters at rally as ‘thugs’
REDDING, Calif. (Reuters) – Presumptive Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump on Friday denounced protesters in California as “thugs” a day after another demonstration outside one of his political rallies turned violent ahead of the state’s…
Obama to Democrats: ‘I want us to run scared’ in election
MIAMI (Reuters) – President Barack Obama warned Democrats on Friday that they need to work hard to defeat likely Republican nominee Donald Trump in the Nov. 8 presidential election but must avoid violence like that at a rally in California this week.
Trump seizes on U.S. jobs report to target Democratic economic policies
WASHINGTON – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said a U.S. jobs report on Friday that showed the weakest hiring in more than five years proved that Democratic economic policies are pushing the country in the wrong direction.
Trump defends attacks on Mexican-American U.S. federal judge
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump defended his attacks on a Mexican-American judge on Friday, resisting pressure from top Republicans to moderate his tone out of concern he is hurting his chances to win the…
Obama commutes prison terms of 42 non-violent drug offenders
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama commuted the prison terms of 42 non-violent drug offenders, nearly half of whom were serving life sentences, in his latest batch of clemency decisions, the White House said on Friday.
Kerry: video cut ‘clumsy and stupid and inappropriate’
PARIS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – It was stupid, clumsy and inappropriate for someone to edit the video of a State Department briefing in 2013, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday as two U.S. lawmakers demanded information about the incident.
U.S. lawmakers probe Fed cyber breaches, cite ‘serious concerns’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. congressional committee has launched an investigation into the Federal Reserve’s cyber security practices after a Reuters report revealed more than 50 cyber breaches at the U.S. central bank between 2011 and 2015.
Clinton attacks Trump’s foreign policy as a threat to U.S. safety
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton lambasted Donald Trump’s foreign policy platform as “dangerously incoherent” in a speech on Thursday that cast her Republican rival as both a frightening and laughable figur…
