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WASHINGTON, June 24 (Reuters) - The Biden administration said Thursday it banned U.S. imports of a key solar panel material from Chinese-based Hoshine Silicon Industry Co (603260.SS), but stopped short of imposing a ban on all imports of silica from Xinjiang and said the action would not harm U.S. clean energy goals.

WASHINGTON, June 24 (Reuters) - An Illinois man on Thursday became the first person charged for attacking journalists during the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of then-President Donald Trump. Shane Jason Woods, 43, of Auburn, who also goes by the name Shane Castleman, was also charged...

June 24 (Reuters) - Boycotting an Olympics should be up to individual athletes not politicians, says U.S. Alpine skiing great Lindsey Vonn, as calls mount to move or reject the 2022 Beijing Winter Games over China's human rights record. A four-times Olympian, Vonn's opinion on boycotts has not altered in...

MEXICO CITY, June 24 (Reuters) - Mexican inspectors have rejected three pork skin cargos at the U.S.-Mexico border since April from the biggest U.S. pork plant operated by industry giant Smithfield Foods as well as another shipper, the country's health safety agency told Reuters. In Mexico, pork skins are mostly...

WASHINGTON, June 24 (Reuters) - President Joe Biden and top White House officials hailed a bipartisan, preliminary infrastructure agreement as proof that Washington - and even American democracy itself - could deliver tangible results despite huge partisan divides. But securing the deal - which delivers a fraction of the investment...

WASHINGTON, June 24 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday embraced a bipartisan Senate deal to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on infrastructure projects, building roads, bridges and highways and helping stimulate the economy. Here are some of the details of the bipartisan framework released by the White...

BRASILIA, June 24 (Reuters) - Brazil’s National Monetary Council (CMN) on Thursday set the central bank’s 2024 inflation target at 3.00%, another decline from preceding years’ goals, highlighting policymakers’ determination to keep inflation under control. The CMN is Brazil’s highest economic policy body, comprised of Economy Minister Paulo Guedes, central...

WASHINGTON, June 24 (Reuters) - Tech critic and the new chair of the Federal Trade Commission, Lina Khan, has named three top staffers in a signal that the agency could become more aggressive in how it enforces antitrust law and laws against deceptive advertising. Khan, who was sworn in on...

WASHINGTON, June 24 (Reuters) - Tech critic and the new chair of the Federal Trade Commission, Lina Khan, has named three top staffers in a signal that the agency could become more aggressive in how it enforces antitrust law and laws against deceptive advertising. Khan, who was sworn in on...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil recorded 73,602 new confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the past 24 hours, along with 2,032 deaths from COVID-19, the Health Ministry said on Thursday. Brazil has registered more than 18.2 million cases since the pandemic began, while the official death toll has risen to 509,141,...

WASHINGTON, June 24 (Reuters) - Tech critic and the new chair of the Federal Trade Commission, Lina Khan, has named three top staffers in a signal that the agency could become more aggressive in how it enforces antitrust law and laws against deceptive advertising. Khan, who was sworn in on...

BRASILIA, June 24 (Reuters) - Brazil recorded 73,602 new confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the past 24 hours, along with 2,032 deaths from COVID-19, the Health Ministry said on Thursday. Brazil has registered more than 18.2 million cases since the pandemic began, while the official death toll has risen...

June 24 (Reuters) - As Federal Reserve policymakers begin an intense debate over when they should begin to pull back some of the massive support they are delivering to the economy, they are split over what poses the bigger risk: a still-large jobs deficit or a potential inflation shock. On...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee has scheduled a meeting on Wednesday to consider sweeping legislation to boost economic competitiveness and push Beijing on human rights, part of an ongoing effort in Congress to address competition with China. Committee aides said on Thursday the panel...

BRASILIA, June 24 (Reuters) - Carrefour Brasil said on Thursday it had finished converting all acquired Makro stores to its Atacadao brand, forecasting the locations would add 350 million reais ($71 million) to annual earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) after four years. The Brazilian unit of Carrefour...

June 24 (Reuters) - Royal Caribbean Group said on Thursday two guests on its cruise liner, Adventure of the Seas, had tested positive for COVID-19. Both guests were not vaccinated and had been quarantined before they disembarked on Thursday in Freeport, The Bahamas, Royal Caribbean International, a unit of the company clarified in a statement.

WASHINGTON, June 24 (Reuters) - Large banks will no longer face pandemic-era restrictions on how much they can spend buying back stock and paying dividends, the Federal Reserve announced Thursday after finding the firms would remain well capitalized in its latest stress test. The central bank said the test found...

June 24 (Reuters) - Several people who were traveling last October on a campaign bus for Democratic President Joe Biden that was surrounded by supporters of Republican former President Donald Trump on a Texas highway filed a pair of federal lawsuits on Thursday over the incident. One lawsuit, which named...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sirius XM Holdings Inc on Thursday won the dismissal of a lawsuit by John Melendez, known by his alter ego Stuttering John, claiming it illegally exploited his celebrity on channels dedicated to radio and television host Howard Stern. Melendez, who left Stern’s radio show in 2004...

LOS ANGELES, June 24 (Reuters) - Shares in U.S. delivery firm FedEx Corp (FDX.N) shed 4.2% on Thursday after labor woes tempered its 2022 earnings forecast that missed Wall Street expectations. The Memphis-based company's shares fell $12.79 to $290.90 in extended trading, after it forecast fiscal 2022 earnings, excluding some...