(Reuters) – An increase in delinquencies last year among a smaller pool of U.S. student loans not covered by a forbearance program put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic signals likely problems ahead for almost 37 million loans when that program end…
Russian strikes turning Mariupol into ‘ashes’ as West plans more sanctions
By Natalia Zinets and Pavel Polityuk LVIV/KYIV, Ukraine (Reuters) – Intense Russian air strikes are turning besieged Mariupol into the “ashes of a dead land”, the city council said on Tuesday, as the United States and Europe planned more sanctions to p…
Tornadoes rip through north Texas, damaging homes and businesses
By Dan Whitcomb (Reuters) – At least two tornadoes tore through north and central Texas on Monday, destroying homes and businesses, knocking out power and injuring at least several people. Multiple homes were damaged or left in ruins in Round Rock, Tex…
Biden says Putin is weighing use of chemical weapons in Ukraine
By Nandita Bose and Alexandra Alper WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Russia’s false accusations that Kyiv has biological and chemical weapons illustrate that Russian President Vladimir Putin is considering using them himself in his war against Ukraine, U.S. Presi…
U.S.-Moscow ties close to rupture after Biden’s ‘war criminal’ remarks, Russia says
(Reuters) -Russia’s foreign ministry said on Monday it had summoned U.S. Ambassador John Sullivan to tell him that President Joe Biden’s calling Russian President Vladimir Putin a “war criminal” had pushed bilateral ties to the brink of collapse. Biden…
Fed will raise rates more aggressively if needed, Powell says
By Ann Saphir and Lindsay Dunsmuir (Reuters) -The U.S. central bank must move “expeditiously” to bring too-high inflation to heel, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said on Monday, and will, if needed, use bigger-than-usual interest rate hikes to do …
Ukraine and Russia: What you need to know right now
(Reuters) – Russian forces bombed areas of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on Wednesday and U.S. President Biden arrived in Brussels for a series of summit meetings on the war while NATO’s chief said the alliance was bolstering battle groups in Eastern Euro…
U.S. Republican Senate hopeful Brooks pledges to ‘fire’ McConnell
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Senate Republican hopeful Mo Brooks pledged on Monday to “fire” Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, days after former President Donald Trump told an interviewer that he could pull his endorsement of the Alabama congress…
AstraZeneca COVID drug neutralizes Omicron sub-variants in study
(Corrects typographical error in paragraph 1) (Reuters) – AstraZeneca said its antibody-based cocktail to prevent and treat COVID-19 was shown to retain neutralising activity against Omicron coronavirus variants, including the highly contagious BA.2 su…
UK aid worker asks why she was left in Iran for six years
By Elizabeth Piper LONDON (Reuters) -Aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe accused Britain and Iran on Monday of treating her like a political pawn, saying it should not have taken six years for London to secure her release from detention in Tehran. App…