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According to the results from Saturday's vote declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), APC won the governorship in 15 states -- Lagos, Sokoto, Katsina, Jigawa, Gombe, Kwara, Niger, Yobe, Nasarawa, Cross River, Ebonyi, Ogun, Benue, Kaduna

7 shows that exports to China increased by $2.4 billion on the year to hit a "record high" of $153.8 billion in 2022, that is an "empty statement", according to a new report from the Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE). It identifies inflation as primarily responsible for this figure.

TAIPEI, March 23 (Reuters) - Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu said on Thursday that President Tsai Ing-wen's meeting with U.S.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in the United States is still in the process of being arranged.

A nearly two-minute preview video, made available before the campaign rollout in early March, featured soldiers jumping out of airplanes, working on helicopters, climbing obstacle courses and diving underwater. The 'Be All You Can Be' slogan dominated its recruiting ads for two decades starting in 1981.

TAIPEI, March 21 (Reuters) - Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen will transit the United States to and from a visit to Central America on a trip starting at the end of this month, the presidential office said on Tuesday.

Representatives of the states that make up ERIC are scheduled to meet Friday to discuss its future. Becker announced Tuesday that he will not accept renomination to the board as his term expires this week.

In the key northeastern region of Adamawa -- which could see the election of Nigeria's first woman governor -- the results were declared "inconclusive" as the number of voters unable to cast their ballot was greater than the margin between the two fro

BEIJING, March 23 (Reuters) - China has never deliberately pursued a trade surplus with the United States, Shu Jueting, a commerce ministry spokesperson, said on Thursday, despite signs that China is continuing to reduce its reliance on American exports.

But the success of both the financial industry and Silicon Valley has always depended on government aid and prudent regulation. Policymakers ought to be honest about those mistakes and be clear about the steps they will take to avoid a repeat. This bailout is necessary because the government was not paying enough attention.

The pooling of information has identified more than 11.5 million people who have moved across state lines and over 60 million potential voters who are unregistered. Postal Service and death records from the Social Security Administration.

President Biden´s pledge on Monday that "we´ll do whatever is needed" was needed. A new Federal Reserve program that offers subsidized loans to banks is also a good idea under the circumstances. The government´s decision to guarantee the full amount of insured and uninsured deposits at Silicon Valley Bank and New York´s Signature Bank is the best choice available to preserve the health of the broader economy.

The Federal Reserve´s role as the lead agency in responding to this crisis has obscured its failures as the agency that was responsible for supervising the bank in the first place. "They should have stopped them months ago," said Anat Admati, a finance professor at Stanford University. "That´s my problem with the Fed: If they were honest, they would admit their own mistakes." In the case of Silicon Valley Bank, regulators failed to do that job.

It can be overwhelming nonetheless to contrast how little is being done about climate change with the clarity of the science. Overshooting climate thresholds can seem inevitable, and we may feel powerless to stop it. But we are not without power to alter this course by making different decisions every day that, when added up, can reduce the severity of global warming we will live with for decades to come.

White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre piled on by claiming Moderna´s price hike is "hard to justify" even as Biden officials hail the benefits of Covid vaccines and boosters. If they are as effective as public-health officials say, then the benefits from reducing hospitalizations among the elderly would more than exceed the new higher price.

Taxpayers were getting a bargain under the OWS contract that paid Moderna about $15 a dose. Even after the vaccine transitions to the commercial market, Moderna´s price will be lower than for such vaccines as GSK´s shingles shot ($183) or Merck´s pneumonia vaccine ($216), according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data.

Demagogues have planted seeds of doubt in the minds of Americans that their votes don´t count. The attacks on the database aren´t really about ERIC.
They´re part of a broader, multiyear campaign to bully elections officials. Now many of these same people are trying to destroy one of the country´s best tools for fighting the rare cases of voter fraud that do occur.

After a decade of operating in near-obscurity, lies about ERIC began bubbling up from the fever swamps, such as that George Soros was behind the project and that the initiative is a left-wing plot to add more racial minorities to the voter rolls.