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By Douglas Gillison

(Reuters) - Staff trust in the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's leadership has fallen sharply to well below government averages, with a growing number of workers considering leaving the agency, the latest FDIC staff survey data obtained by Reuters shows.

In 2023, 38% of FDIC staff were considering leaving within the next 12 months, more than double that of 2020, compared with only 33% government-wide, the data... (continue reading...)

By Bianca Flowers and Renee Hickman

DEKALB, Illinois (Reuters) - Falling crop prices are leaving agriculture equipment sellers with an excess of unsold tractors and combines. To cope with the surplus, dealers are discounting machines, suspending new orders, and even auctioning off equipment at reduced prices.

The slower equipment sales are a knock-on effect of corn and soy prices dropping to more than three-year lows as U.S. farm income... (continue reading...)

By Jack Queen, Luc Cohen and Andy Sullivan

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Porn star Stormy Daniels will face tough questioning from Donald Trump's lawyers on Thursday as they try to dismantle the credibility of a woman whose story of a 2006 sexual encounter ultimately led to the first criminal trial of a former U.S. president.

Daniels' unflattering account of sex with Trump riveted jurors on Tuesday, and served to remind U.S. voters of the more... (continue reading...)

By Julia Harte

(Reuters) - A U.S. school board in Shenandoah County, Virginia, will vote on Thursday on whether to restore previously removed Confederate names to two schools, potentially becoming the first community in the nation to reinstate such names.

The motion would undo the school board's decision in 2020 stripping a high school and elementary school of the names of three military leaders of the pro-slavery Southern states in the... (continue reading...)

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's foreign debt climbed by $3.5 billion in the three months to the end of December, according to central bank data released on Thursday.

Total foreign debt rose to $168.0 billion from $164.5 billion at the end of September and $162.9 billion at the end of December 2022.

Egypt has quadrupled its external debt since 2015 to help fund a new capital, build infrastructure, buy weapons and support an overvalued... (continue reading...)