Business
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Economy
5/24/2023 7:07:55 PM
President Joe Biden offered to freeze government spending at current levels during crunch debt talks with Republicans, which would reduce the deficit by $1 trillion, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Wednesday.
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World
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International
5/24/2023 9:26:50 AM
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is set to launch his 2024 presidential campaign Wednesday, signalling 18 months of acrimony ahead as he and Donald Trump lock horns in what is expected to be an attritional contest for the Republican nomination.
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World
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International
5/22/2023 10:08:25 PM
As Sen. Tim Scott enters the 2024 GOP presidential field, he will be eager to introduce himself to voters who might not know much about him.
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World
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International
5/22/2023 10:30:53 AM
Anxieties were mounting in Washington ahead of President Joe Biden's Monday meeting with Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy over negotiations to raise the US debt ceiling, less than two weeks before a key deadline to avoid a disastrous default.
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World
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Region
5/21/2023 10:49:37 PM
President Joe Biden on Sunday dismissed Republican demands in negotiations to resolve the US debt ceiling crisis but said a solution can still be found before a disastrous default.
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Business
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Economy
5/21/2023 2:14:58 PM
President Joe Biden said Sunday that Republicans in the US House must move off their "extreme positions" on the now-stalled talks over raising America's debt limit and that there would be no agreement to avert a catastrophic default only on their terms.
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World
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International
5/20/2023 9:33:12 PM
Debt limit talks between the White House and House Republicans stopped, started and stopped again heading into a weekend where President Joe Biden and world leaders watched from afar, hoping high-stakes negotiations would make progress on avoiding a potentially catastrophic federal default.
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Business
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Economy
5/19/2023 8:57:06 PM
Debt limit talks came to an abrupt standstill Friday after Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said it's time to “pause” negotiations, and a White House official acknowledged there are “real differences” that are making talks difficult.
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World
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International
5/17/2023 7:48:50 PM
President Joe Biden said Wednesday that he is confident the U.S. will avoid an unprecedented and catastrophic debt default, saying talks with congressional Republicans have been productive as he prepared to leave for a global summit in Japan.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
5/9/2023 9:10:17 PM
US policies under both Republican and Democratic administrations have reflected Washington’s failure to fully support and assist the democratic transition in Sudan, writes Amr Abdel-Ati
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Business
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Economy
5/7/2023 8:54:48 PM
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned Sunday that unless Congress acts soon to raise the nation's debt ceiling, "financial and economic chaos would ensue."
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World
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International
5/7/2023 10:20:41 AM
Washington's power brokers love playing chicken. But the rest of the world will watch in dread Tuesday when President Joe Biden and Republican leaders meet to negotiate the US debt ceiling -- praying that one side finally blinks.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
5/6/2023 8:34:00 PM
President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi discussed on Saturday the latest regional developments -- including the situation in the Palestinian territories and Sudan -- with the Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence in the United States Congress, Mike Turner, and a large delegation of both Republican and Democratic members of the committee, the Egyptian Presidency announced.
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World
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International
5/5/2023 7:24:52 PM
E. Jean Carroll testified in sometimes searing detail about the day she says Donald Trump raped her in a department store dressing room two decades before he became president, allegations the Republican has repeatedly and vehemently denied.
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World
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International
5/5/2023 7:06:05 PM
Americans seem undecided over the state of Israeli democracy, according to the results of a recent poll released on Friday.
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World
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International
4/30/2023 11:37:36 AM
Despite his surname, Ryan King will not be among those waving Union Jack flags at the coronation of King Charles III next week.
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World
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International
4/29/2023 7:24:34 PM
Nine months before the first 2024 US presidential primary, Donald Trump's onetime UN envoy Nikki Haley is barnstorming early-voting New Hampshire, one of several Republicans scrambling to dent the huge poll lead of the nomination front-runner.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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World
4/4/2023 9:47:46 PM
The indictment of former US president Donald Trump on criminal charges represents a major dilemma for the Republican Party in the run-up to the 2024 presidential elections, writes Manal Lotfy
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World
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International
4/2/2023 9:40:47 PM
Asa Hutchinson, who recently completed two terms as Arkansas governor, said Sunday he will seek the Republican presidential nomination, positioning himself as an alternative to Donald Trump just days after the former president was indicted by a grand jury in New York.
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World
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International
3/26/2023 8:28:22 PM
A group of Tennessee Republicans began this year’s legislative session hoping to add narrow exceptions to one of the strictest abortion bans in the country, armed with the belief that most people, even in conservative Tennessee, reject extremes on the issue.
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