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By Humeyra Pamuk and Simon Lewis WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Chinese-American citizen Kai Li, jailed in China on spying charges he denies, received a rare in-person visit last week from the U.S. Ambassador to Beijing and urged the U.S. government to continue to work for his release, Li’s son said on Friday. Over the course of the past month, U.S. Ambassador Nicholas Burns had the first meetings in more than five […]

By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democratic and Republican U.S. senators urged the Biden administration on Friday to share information with the International Criminal Court that could assist as it pursues war crimes charges against Russian President Vladimir Putin. Last week, the court issued an arrest warrant for Putin, accusing him of the war crime of illegally deporting hundreds of children from Ukraine. The legal move will obligate the court’s […]

(Reuters) – Rivian Automotive Inc is relocating parts of its manufacturing engineering team to Illinois to speed up production, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing a person familiar with the matter. The reorganization, expected to be announced soon, would mean those working on manufacturing engineering would be asked to relocate to central Illinois or its headquarters in Irvine, California, according to the WSJ report. “In terms of ramping […]

(Reuters) – Rivian Automotive Inc is relocating parts of its manufacturing engineering team to Illinois to speed up production, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing a person familiar with the matter. The reorganization, expected to be announced soon, would mean those working on manufacturing engineering would be asked to relocate to central Illinois or its headquarters in Irvine, California, according to the WSJ report. “In terms of ramping […]

By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democratic and Republican U.S. senators urged the Biden administration on Friday to share information with the International Criminal Court that could assist as it pursues war crimes charges against Russian President Vladimir Putin. Last week, the court issued an arrest warrant for Putin, accusing him of the war crime of illegally deporting hundreds of children from Ukraine. The legal move will obligate the court’s […]

(Refiles to fix Li’s profession in 3rd paragraph) By Humeyra Pamuk and Simon Lewis WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Chinese-American citizen Kai Li, jailed in China on spying charges he denies, received a rare in-person visit last week from the U.S. Ambassador to Beijing and urged the U.S. government to continue to work for his release, Li’s son said on Friday. Over the course of the past month, U.S. Ambassador Nicholas Burns had […]

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy thinks lawmakers will pass bipartisan legislation to address national security worries about Chinese-owned short video app TikTok, he said on Friday, and called the testimony of the company’s CEO “very concerning.” TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew appeared before a U.S. House Committee for about five hours on Thursday and lawmakers from both parties grilled him about national security and […]

(Reuters) -The U.S. health regulator on Friday proposed cancer drug developers in most cases conduct more rigorous trials to seek accelerated approval for their candidates. The Food and Drug Administration’s proposed recommendation follows criticism for the accelerated approval pathway, as well as an independent federal review into it after the controversial nod for Biogen Inc’s Alzheimer’s treatment Aduhelm. Accelerated approvals allow the agency to move therapies that target serious and […]

By Ann Saphir (Reuters) – Responsibility for the Federal Reserve’s oversight of large financial institutions like the failed Silicon Valley Bank rests with staff in Washington and not with any regional Fed bank chief, a former chair of the San Francisco Fed bank said on Friday. “The regulatory regime at the Reserve Bank is that they (bank examiners) are housed in the district offices and report to the Board of […]