Editorial Roundup: United States

TAIPEI, March 23 (Reuters) - Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu said on Thursday that President Tsai Ing-wen's meeting with U.S.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in the United States is still in the process of being arranged.

"This is the result of a shared desire to reset (the) US-Rwanda relationship," Kagame's press secretary Stephanie Nyombayire tweeted Friday, adding the close relationship between Rwanda and Qatar

BRUSSELS, March 20 (Reuters) - European Union member states have reached an agreement on the joint procurement of ammunition for Ukraine, German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said on the sidelines of a meeting with his EU counterparts in Brussels on Monday.

"Today, we will sign the respective documents," he told reporters, adding Germany would also open its national framework contracts with the defense industry to other partners as speed was of the essence in supplying Kyiv.

BRUSSELS, March 20 (Reuters) - European Union member states have agreed to supply one million rounds of artillery ammunition to Ukraine, Estonian Defence Minister Hanno Pevkur said on the sidelines of a meeting with his EU counterparts in Brussels on Monday.

According to the results from Saturday's vote declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), APC won the governorship in 15 states -- Lagos, Sokoto, Katsina, Jigawa, Gombe, Kwara, Niger, Yobe, Nasarawa, Cross River, Ebonyi, Ogun, Benue, Kaduna

In the key northeastern region of Adamawa -- which could see the election of Nigeria's first woman governor -- the results were declared "inconclusive" as the number of voters unable to cast their ballot was greater than the margin between the two fro

The film was inspired by his experience as a hotel manager during the 1994 Rwandan genocide, when his family and hundreds of guests -- mainly ethnic Tutsis like his wife -- took refuge inside the Mille Collines as machete-wielding mobs killed people outside the ho

The very same day, Florida pulled out of the fraud detection consortium, along with Missouri and West Virginia, capitulating for political reasons to bizarre conspiracy theories peddled by those who still claim that former president Donald Trump won reelection in 2020.

I can assure you through this letter that I hold no personal or political ambitions otherwise. "I understand fully that I will spend the remainder of my days in the United States in quiet reflection. I will leave questions regarding Rwandan politics b

Becker announced Tuesday that he will not accept renomination to the board as his term expires this week. Representatives of the states that make up ERIC are scheduled to meet Friday to discuss its future.

Carol Beecher, Alaska´s director of elections, told her state legislature last week that she´s evaluating whether to pull out of ERIC because "it´s expensive and we are a small state." What she didn´t say, according to the Anchorage Daily News, is that the state´s fees and dues have been less than $17,000 annually in recent years.

Four of the seven charter members were Republican-led states. The system compiles voter participation records from member states along with change-of-address records from the U.S. By last year, 34 states plus D.C. had joined - including the six tightest presidential battlegrounds.

The basis for this claim is that states agree when they join to send postcards every two years to people, whom the system identifies as eligible but unregistered to vote, with information on how they can sign up.

Taxpayers were getting a bargain under the OWS contract that paid Moderna about $15 a dose. Even after the vaccine transitions to the commercial market, Moderna´s price will be lower than for such vaccines as GSK´s shingles shot ($183) or Merck´s pneumonia vaccine ($216), according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data.

Sanders, because they believe this advances their view that pharma companies profit from government innovation and support. The truth is closer to the opposite. Yet progressives are targeting Moderna as "a poster child for corporate greed," to quote Mr. The government and public benefit from Moderna´s billions of dollars spent on research and development.

Regulators have a responsibility to ensure that banks do not abuse those privileges. They are insulated from market discipline by various forms of federal protection because, like the power companies that keep the lights on, they provide a public service that is essential to a modern economy. Banks are different from most private-sector companies. Policymakers - in Congress, the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve - have a duty to explain to the American public how things were allowed to spin so far out of control.

Those changes, including the safeguards imposed by the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act, were, largely, to the good. On average, an American bank failed every three days between 1980 and 1994. The pace of failures reached similar heights in the immediate aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, but since then failures have been much less common. The failures in recent days ended the second-longest stretch without a bank failure since the Great Depression.