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Top Republican says US House won't raise debt limit without spending cuts
Top Republican says US House won't raise debt limit without spending cuts
by  AFP

Republican leader Kevin McCarthy vowed Monday that the US House would not approve a "no-strings attached" debt limit increase, adopting a hard line ahead of budget negotiations with President Joe Biden. As the Republican leader in the House before the midterm elections made him Speaker, McCarthy opposed all of these laws. jmb/bys

Fox defamation trial delayed with reports of settlement talks
Fox defamation trial delayed with reports of settlement talks
by  AFP

A defamation trial related to falsehoods about the 2020 US presidential election aired on Fox News was delayed Monday as the network reportedly sought to settle with vote machine maker Dominion. It alleges that the news behemoth promoted Donald Trump's false claims that its machines were used to rig the 2020 presidential election that he lost to Joe Biden.

SpaceX postpones test flight of Starship, world's biggest rocket
SpaceX postpones test flight of Starship, world's biggest rocket
by  AFP

SpaceX on Monday postponed the first test flight of Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, designed to send astronauts to the Moon and Mars and beyond. Starship is both bigger and more powerful than SLS. It generates 17 million pounds of thrust, more than twice that of the Saturn V rockets used to send Apollo astronauts to the Moon.

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