Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday visited some of the flood-hit areas that cover as much as a third of the South Asian nation, where 18 more deaths took the toll from days of rain to 1,343.
It was smiles all around as the familiar Wall Street ritual—the ringing of the closing bell—played out again at the New York Stock Exchange on Aug. 10.
The US Department of Commerce on Tuesday unveiled a plan to provide $50 billion to the domestic semiconductor industry and countering China, in what is billed as the largest government bailout to the industry in decades, media reported.
A large majority of Americans – nearly 60% -- say Joe Biden's recent primetime speech in which he angrily lashed out at Republicans and conservatives, claiming they are "an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic," was "designed to incite conflict."
Fifty-six percent of general election voters view President Joe Biden’s speech, where he cast Republicans as “threats to the foundations of our republic,” as unacceptable, a Tuesday Trafalgar Group poll found.
