"Make no mistake: the United States does not ... (Reporting by Andrea Shalal; writing by Jasper Ward; editing by Tim Ahmann) seek conflict with Iran, but be prepared for us to act forcefully to protect our people," Biden told reporters during an official visit to Canada.

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. It can be overwhelming nonetheless to contrast how little is being done about climate change with the clarity of the science.

Regulators also should have limited the bank´s dangerous reliance on large, uninsured deposits. Indeed, regulators treated Silicon Valley Bank´s core strategy of investing in government bonds as essentially risk free, blind to the dangers posed by a rapid rise in interest rates. Yet the details of Silicon Valley Bank´s rise and fall are depressingly familiar. The bank took big risks to grow quickly by gathering and investing money from a wide range of tech start-ups; its shareholders cheered, and its auditors and regulators did nothing to interfere.

military carried out air strikes against Iran-backed forces in retaliation for an attack that killed an American contractor and wounded five U.S. OTTAWA, March 24 (Reuters) - U.S.

President Joe Biden on Friday said the United States is prepared to "act forcefully" to protect Americans, commenting after the U.S.

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

The brief from the Caribbean governments, which was joined by a network of non-governmental organizations, follows a summit among regional leaders last month held in the Bahamas, where arms trafficking was a key topic.

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action targets former director of the Paraguayan Civil Aviation Authority, Edgar Melgarejo, current member of the Paraguayan Panel for the Discipline of Judges and Prosecutors, Jorge Bogarin, and current Court Clerk Vicente Ferreira, State Department spokesperson Vedant Patel said in a statement.

The report, released Monday by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, warns that the planet is on track to blow past 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) of warming, a critical threshold virtually every nation on Earth agreed to work to avoid. We can expect to overshoot that within about a decade unless we immediately switch to renewable energy and slash planet-warming pollution in half by 2030. More than a century of burning coal, oil and gas is catching up with us, and there´s little time to change course.

The states filing the brief were California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont.

March 23 (Reuters) - The United States has designated one former and two current Paraguayan officials for what Washington said was their involvement in "significant corruption," making the officials and their families ineligible for entry into the North American country.

President Biden last week approved the massive Willow oil drilling project in Alaska, giving ConocoPhillips permission to extract as much as 600 million barrels of oil over 30 years and breaking his campaign promise of "no more drilling on federal lands. Period." (Yes, he said it four times for emphasis.) China has been permitting new coal-fired power plants at a staggering rate of two per week.

March 22 (Reuters) - Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc said on Wednesday the U.S.

Food and Drug Administration had approved the expanded use of its drug in children aged 5 to 11 years to treat an ultra-rare disease that causes high cholesterol.

The drug, Evkeeza, was approved in February 2021 as an additional treatment with other lipid-lowering therapies for patients aged 12 years and above with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HoFH).

The U.N´s scientific assessment, approved by 195 nations, says that existing and planned fossil fuel infrastructure - all of the coal-fired power plants, oil wells and gas-powered vehicles already built or on the way - will generate enough greenhouse gas pollution to warm the planet by a catastrophic 2 degrees Celsius, or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, this century.

Congress should also require clawbacks of executive compensation and dividends at failed banks. If bankers are required in the future to return some of what they have gained from their poor decisions, it might have a sobering effect.

Before the pandemic, Moderna developed its novel mRNA platform with $3.8 billion in private investment. Sanders claims that taxpayers paid to develop Moderna´s Covid vaccine, and the government thus should be able to dictate its price. In spring 2020, it raised another $1.3 billion in private capital to scale up manufacturing.