WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 21, 2023--

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen reaffirmed June 1 as the "hard deadline" for the US to raise the debt ceiling or risk defaulting on its obligations.

The NAACP over the weekend issued a travel advisory for Florida, joining two other civil rights groups in warning potential tourists that recent laws championed by Gov_ Ron DeSantis and Florida lawmakers are “openly hostile toward African Americans, people of color and LGBTQ+ individuals.”

Irish nationalist party Sinn Fein has made sweeping gains in Northern Ireland’s local elections

China has stepped up a feud with Washington over security by telling users of computer equipment deemed sensitive to stop buying products from the biggest U.S. memory chipmaker, Micron Technology Inc. The country's cyberspace agency says Micron products have unspecified “serious network security risks” that threaten China’s information infrastructure and affect national security

Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari said that he could support holding interest rates steady at the central bank's

President Joe Biden says Republicans in the U.S. House must move off their “extreme positions” on the now-stalled talks over raising America’s debt limit

The leaders of South Korea and Germany have pledged more cooperation in building stable supply chains and addressing the challenges posed by nuclear-armed North Korea

SpaceX's next private flight to the International Space Station is awaiting takeoff

Will the Federal Reserve hike rates at its next meeting in June — for the 11th time in a row — or pause? Wall Street seems to be betting on the latter, but it was a topsy-turvy journey to that consensus last week.

Animal rights activists have gathered in Madrid to protest plans for the construction of a large-scale octopus farm

BEIJING China's cyberspace regulator said on Sunday its review has found that US Micron Technology’s products have serious