US and World News

By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United States, Britain and France on Wednesday opposed a Russian-drafted U.N. Security Council statement that would have condemned an attack on Iran’s …

By Joey Roulette and Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House on Tuesday directed NASA to establish a unified standard of time for the moon and other celestial bodies, …

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Teenage cloakroom attendant Artem Donskov helped people flee to safety when gunmen stormed a concert hall near Moscow last month. Now his mother is trying to get …

By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -A New York judge on Wednesday denied Donald Trump’s bid to delay his April 15 trial on charges stemming from hush money paid to …

By Stephen Nellis (Reuters) – Microsoft and Quantinuum on Wednesday said they have achieved a key step in making quantum computers a commercial reality by making them more reliable. The …

By Dawn Chmielewski (Reuters) – With Walt Disney’s months-long proxy war with activist investor Nelson Peltz in the rear-view mirror, attention is refocused on finding CEO Bob Iger’s successor. The …

By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden will speak by phone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday, three days after Israel launched an attack in which …

By Steve Holland and Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden hosted a White House event with U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders on Wednesday to tout their fight against high prescription …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. services industry growth slowed further in March, while a measure of prices paid by businesses for inputs dropped to a four-year low, which bodes well for …

By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) – Texas officials reported on Monday that a farm worker tested positive for H5N1, or bird flu, that has spread to dairy cows in Texas, …

By Humeyra Pamuk and Michelle Nichols WASHINGTON/UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United States said on Wednesday that establishing an independent Palestinian state should happen through direct negotiations between the parties …

By Sarah Morland (Reuters) – Diplomats at a regional Americas body on Wednesday urged Haitian politicians to move forward with a delayed plan to replace Prime Minister Ariel Henry with …

By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. services industry growth slowed further in March, while a measure of prices paid by businesses for inputs dropped to a four-year low, which …

By Anna Magdalena Lubowicka WARSAW (Reuters) – A friend of the Polish aid worker who was killed in Gaza this week paid tribute on Wednesday to a man he described …

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel war cabinet member Benny Gantz called for national elections in September on Wednesday, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government faces pressure at home and abroad over …

By Tom Polansek CHICAGO (Reuters) -Migratory waterfowl are to blame for widening avian-flu outbreaks in Texas cows and poultry, and wild birds carrying the virus should be heading north soon, …

By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) – The bodies of foreign aid workers killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza were brought to the crossing with Egypt on Wednesday as international …

By Essi Lehto and Sergejs Mikusa HELSINKI (Reuters) -A 12-year-old boy who shot and killed a fellow sixth-grader and severely injured two others at a school in Finland has said …

By John Irish PARIS (Reuters) – North Korea and Iran’s military support to Russia has serious global security consequences that the 32-member NATO alliance cannot ignore, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg …

By Andrew Gray and John Irish BRUSSELS (Reuters) -NATO allies agreed on Wednesday to initiate planning on long-term military support for Ukraine, but a proposal by NATO Secretary General Jens …

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) – The main Palestinian faction in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday accused Iran of trying to spread chaos in its territory and said it would …

By Nathan Layne, Gram Slattery and Tim Reid GREEN BAY, Wisconsin (Reuters) -Donald Trump called immigrants illegally in the United States “animals” and “not human” in a speech in Michigan …

By Burcu Karakas ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Gulistan Sonuk, 31, sailed to election victory in Turkey’s conservative heartland at the weekend, part of a wave of new women mayors who dealt …