The US Senate on Tuesday blocked President Donald Trump’s controversial pick from joining the Federal Reserve board, at least for now. Two Republicans joined Democrats in opposing Judy Shelton, a strident critic of the central bank who has faced an unprecedented public wave of resistance from dozens of well-known economists and Nobel laureates. Vice President-elect […]

Britain’s government has failed to account clearly for all of the $24 billion it has shelled out for supplies and services linked to the coronavirus pandemic, state auditors said in a report Wednesday. The report by the National Audit Office (NAO) came as the Conservative government is under mounting attack from opposition parties for alleged […]

Donald Trump on Tuesday fired the government’s top election security official, who had rejected the president’s claims of “massive” fraud in the vote he lost to Joe Biden. Trump announced on Twitter the termination “effective immediately” of Chris Krebs, who leads the agency that jointly declared “the November 3rd election was the most secure in […]

Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations Amina Mohammed has advised Nigeria leaders to see young people as an asset, if they want peaceful retirement. Mohammed gave the advice during her visit to the Nigeria Governors’ Forum Secretariat, in Abuja on Tuesday as part of her tour of some West African States including Ghana, Sierra Leone, […]

The United States will reduce its troop levels in Iraq and Afghanistan to 2,500 personnel members per country by January 15, acting Defence Secretary Christopher Miller said on Tuesday. National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien separately said he hoped the US could completely wind down by May – though the Trump administration will no longer be […]