ISTANBUL, Oct 12 (Reuters) - Turkey's economy should grow at a hot 9.0% rate this year, well up from a July forecast of 5.8%, the International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday.
The Fund held steady at 3.3% its gross domestic product (GDP) growth forecast for next year, according to its latest World Economic Outlook. (Reporting by Can Sezer; Writing by Jonathan Spicer; Editing by Dominic Evans)
Seven states all have various winter weather-related warnings and advisories over the weekend: Alaska, California, Montana, Maine, Nevada, Utah and Wyoming.
Recriminations over Kamala Harris’ defeat are shaping the early stages of the race for DNC chair.
“It’s clear they’re scared,” said one former Trump administration official who worked on Middle East issues.
US President-elect Donald Trump announced Friday that North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum will head a new energy council -- on top of serving as his Secretary of the Interior.The position will give Burgum a seat on the National Security Council, Trump added, although it remains uncertain if the National Energy Council will be based in the White House as well.
Prosecutors in Missouri have charged Carissa Smith, with sexual trafficking, statutory rape and patronizing prostitution, court documents show.
House Speaker Mike Johnson said Friday that he will “strongly request” that the House Ethics Committee not release the results of its investigation into ex-Rep. Matt Gaetz, rebuffing senators who are demanding access now that Gaetz is President-elect Donald Trump 's nominee for attorney general. Johnson’s intervention is highly unusual, as the Ethics panel has traditionally operated independently.
The post claims AOC criticized a "right-wing news outlet" in an attempt to attract followers to the account, but she did no such thing.
Nadine Nakamura set to become Hawaii's first female House speaker, leading on housing costs, transparency, and family-focused policies.
New York City officials are concerned about low reservoir levels after months of little rain, saying they may postpone repairs on a temporarily out-of-service aqueduct to bring more water into the stressed system. Mayor Eric Adams issued a drought watch this month and urged city residents to conserve water by taking shorter showers and fixing leaky faucets. More than 100 miles (161 kilometers) north of Manhattan, the Schoharie Reservoir was at less than a third of its capacity this week, exposing vast muddy flats as the water receded.
The president of a Kentucky plant that exploded earlier this week said the company is accountable for the accident and will pay damages to residents affected by the blast. “First and foremost, we are devastated by the accident that happened on Tuesday,” said Ann Leonard, president of Givaudan Sense Color, during a call-in meeting with reporters Friday afternoon. Leonard said “absolutely we are accountable” for the explosion and pledged to pay damages to neighbors.
In the closing weeks of the presidential campaign, Sen.
Though Trump had named a slew of individuals to various positions in his second administration, Boebert was not among them as of Nov. 14.
Moderate Democratic Rep. Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey announced Friday that he would seek to become the Garden State's next governor, entering what is expected to be a crowded Democratic primary field.
The Pentagon has released its annual report on UFO sightings, or what it officially calls unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs) — and found 21 particularly curious incidents.
Scientific American editor-in-chief Laura Helmuth is stepping down after she shared several profanity-filled postings about Donald Trump's election win on social media.
US President Joe Biden and Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Friday warned of turbulent times ahead, in remarks at an Asia-Pacific economic summit in Lima overshadowed by Donald Trump's impending return to the White House. He also cautioned against "fragmentation of the world economy" in a written speech prepared for a meeting of CEOs on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, Xinhua said.
With President-elect Trump building his Cabinet, the idea of recess appointments has been floated, but what are they and how can they be used?
The position will oversee the “drill, baby, drill” effort and increase all types of energy, Trump said.
The infected person is linked to a previously reported outbreak tied to a commercial poultry operation in the state, where the virus has been confirmed in 150,000 birds, the state health authority said. A total of 52 people from eight states have tested positive in the U.S. this year as the virus has infected poultry flocks and spread to more than 500 dairy herds, the CDC said. Health officials did not provide more details about the individual infected in Oregon, but said there is no evidence of person-to-person transmission and the risk to the public is low.
Firefighters were getting closer Friday to taming a wildfire burning across the New Jersey-New York border on Friday, increasing their encirclement of the hard-to-access blaze. The fire, named the Jennings Creek blaze, was 90% contained on the Passaic County, New Jersey, side of the border, and about 70% contained on the Orange County, New York side. It had burned 7 1/2 square miles (19.4 square kilometers) across the two states, although New York officials said that number is likely to increase somewhat in coming days.
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