MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Panamanian President Jose Raul Mulino said on social media on Thursday that he would speak to his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump at 3:30pm on Friday afternoon, amid an increasingly tense standoff over the Panama Canal. (Reporting by Diego Ore; Writing by Brendan O’Boyle) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Storms sent creeks over their banks and caused flash flooding in portions of West Virginia and Kentucky on Thursday, while a wintry mix coated trees and roads in ice and even dropped “thunder ice” in several states. Residents and storm spotters in portions of Indiana, southern Michigan, Ohio and and Pennsylvania […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is meeting privately with congressional Republicans at the White House on Thursday as his allies on Capitol Hill are arguing with themselves over the size, scope and details of his “big, beautiful bill” to cut taxes, regulations and government spending. The House and Senate GOP leaders are looking to […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Department of Treasury on Thursday imposed sanctions on a network of more than a dozen people and firms that are accused of facilitating the shipment of millions of barrels of Iranian oil to China. The department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned more than dozen people and companies in China, […]

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The top Democrat on the Senate Commerce Committee said she is asking U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy to bar President Donald Trump’s adviser Elon Musk from involvement in efforts to reform air traffic control. Senator Maria Cantwell cited conflicts of interest and noted that Musk-led SpaceX was fined by the […]