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US Senate committee passes resolution recognising Arunchal Pradesh as integral part of India
Ayndrila Banerjee •The formal acceptance of Arunchal Pradesh as part of India's territory by the US gives legitimacy to Washington's support for New Delhi as China's claims in the region become stronger
Republican presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis supports revoking China's trade status
Fp Staff •The US Senate voted in 2000 to grant that status to China as it prepared to join the World Trade Organization. Any step to remove it would also need congressional approval. The status is a legal designation in the United States for free trade with a foreign nation
US Senate panel passes legislation to strip China of 'developing nation' status
Fp Staff •The Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved the 'Ending China's Developing Nation Status Act' without dissent
Senate passes debt limit bill, averts first-ever US default
Fp Staff •The US Senate on Thursday passed the debt limit with a comfortable majority of 63 votes to 36 a day after it had sailed through the House of Representatives
US debt ceiling crisis: What a default could mean for America, the world
Fp Explainers •A US default looms large as Republicans and Democrats spar over raising the government’s spending limits. It has forced Joe Biden to cancel his upcoming trip to Australia, resulting in the Quad Summit with leaders from India, Australia and Japan being called off
Radha Iyengar Plumb chosen US Deputy Under Secretary of Defence, latest Indian-American in key role
Fp Staff •President Biden had nominated Plumb, currently serving as Chief of Staff to the Deputy Secretary of Defence, to this prestigious position in June 2022. She is an experienced leader with deep technical analytic skills and a demonstrated history of working in the government, academia and industry
Chief Justice Roberts asked to testify on Supreme Court ethics by US Senate
Fp Staff •Roberts or another justice of his choosing was requested by the Senate Judiciary Committee, which is chaired by Democrats, in a letter to attend on 2 May and give a public testimony explaining the ethical standards that apply to the nine justices
Senate passes bill repealing Iraq War authorisation: Why this matters
•Approval by the House, which is less certain, would officially end congressional approval for the US war in Iraq and, symbolically at least, close the US-led war itself
US Senate passes repeal of Iraq war authorisations
•Both parties supported canceling the 2002 Authorisation for Use of Military Force (AUMF) that empowered George W Bush to launch the invasion, as well as the 1991 version that allowed his father, George HW Bush, to attack Iraq after Saddam's forces invaded Kuwait
Ex-Starbucks CEO to defend union opposition before Senate
•At least 293 of Starbucks’ 9,000 company-owned U.S. Starbucks stores have voted to unionize since late 2021, according to the National Labor Relations Board.