USA news live updates: Pre-Fed data shows U.S. economy nearing ‘normal’ – Times of India
Those boosted with Covid vaccine are 68 times less likely to die of the disease, CDC data
Major indexes advance with Nasdaq leading gains
Pre-Fed data shows U.S. economy nearing ‘normal’
Washington says WTO decision letting China tax US imports ‘deeply disappointing’
WTO says China can impose duties on $645 million worth of US imports annually
‘Every indication’ Putin plans to use ‘military force’ against Ukraine by mid-February: US Deputy Sec. of State Sherman
U.S. auto sales to slip in January on slim inventory, higher prices
US CDC chief: Covid-19 cases are down 6% over previous week, hospitalizations down 8% and deaths up 21%
Russia warned on Wednesday that imposing sanctions on Putin personally would not hurt him but would be “politically destructive”.
US new home sales close 2021 with big gain
Sales of new US homes shot up in the final month of 2021, but the market saw overall fewer transactions than in the year prior, government data released Wednesday said.
US Embassy in Kiev urges US citizens in Ukraine to consider departing now
The United States Embassy in Ukraine urged American citizens in the country to consider departing now, saying that the security situation was “unpredictable due to the increased threat of Russian military action”. Read more
The Biden administration nominated Jane E. Young, the deputy attorney general for the New Hampshire Department of Justice, to be the U.S. attorney in that state.
Young has held a variety of roles in the New Hampshire Department of Justice since she joined the office in 1992.
Alexander M.M. Uballez, a federal prosecutor in the US attorney’s office in New Mexico, is nominated to run that office.
Uballez has worked in the office since 2016 and was previously an assistant district attorney in Albuquerque and Santa Fe.
S Lane Tucker, an attorney in the Anchorage office of the law firm Stoe Rives LLP, is nominated to be the U.S. attorney in Alaska.
The former federal prosecutor worked at the Justice Department in the 1990s and early 2000s.
Biden nominated Trina Higgins, a longtime federal prosecutor, to serve as US attorney in Utah.
If confirmed, she would be the first woman to serve as U.S. attorney for Utah.
Searchers worked throughout the night after a solitary survivor was found Tuesday morning clinging to the overturned hull of a boat that capsized off the Florida coast during a suspected smuggling attempt.
Coast Guard: 1 body recovered, 38 still missing off Florida
The US Coast Guard said Wednesday that its crews recovered one body and continue to search for 38 other people in the ocean off Florida days after their boat left the Bahamas in a suspected human smuggling attempt. Read more
Biden picks 6 lawyers for US prosecutor posts, diverse group
The US Coast Guard was expected to share details on Wednesday about its search for 39 people reported missing after their boat capsized in the Atlantic Ocean off Florida in what is being called a human smuggling attempt gone awry.
U.S. Navy working to recover F-35 warplane that fell into South China Sea
