By Karen Pierog and Kate Duguid (Reuters) – A funding backstop the U.S. Federal Reserve launched on Tuesday aims to help address liquidity problems that have lingered in the coronavirus-roiled commercial paper market, but some analysts say the high borrowing costs may limit participation. The Commercial Paper Funding Facility’s (CPFF) special purpose vehicle purchases higher […]
By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A federal appeals court on Friday threw out a lawsuit brought by Democratic lawmakers that accused Donald Trump of violating anti-corruption provisions in the U.S. Constitution with his business dealings, capping a week of political victories for the Republican president. A unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of […]
Bookmark Don’t miss a thing! Sign up to the Daily Star’s newsletter We have more newsletters A Russian governor being ‘groomed as successor’ to Vladimir Putin has launched a drone training school for Kremlin troops and secret services operatives to target Ukraine. Alexei Dyumin, 50, is a former Putin bodyguard and ex-deputy defence minister who […]
