US and World News

By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Days after the release of U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner from imprisonment in Russia, Democratic and Republican U.S. lawmakers will introduce legislation on Tuesday …

(Reuters) – A Reuters investigation published on Monday revealed that the Nigerian military and allied security forces have slaughtered thousands of children during their gruelling 13-year war against Islamist extremists …

By Trevor Hunnicutt and Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States will commit $55 billion to Africa over the next three years as President Joe Biden prepares to host …

LONDON (Reuters) -Russia on Tuesday dismissed a peace proposal from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy that would involve a pullout of Russian troops, saying Kyiv needed to accept new territorial “realities”. …

SYDNEY (Reuters) -Six people, including two police officers, were killed in a gunfight at a remote property in Australia’s Queensland state, authorities said on Tuesday, after police visited a home …

By Marco Aquino LIMA (Reuters) – Peru’s new president offered lawmakers a plan to bring elections forward by two years on Monday, after the ouster of her predecessor last week …

By Tim Kelly TOKYO (Reuters) – Boosting military spending may be Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s best hope of reviving his sinking popularity, but there is a catch, analysts say: …

By Trevor Hunnicutt and Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Billionaire Elon Musk’s public condemnation of top U.S. health official Anthony Fauci is “dangerous” and “disgusting,” and should be called out, White …

By Stanley Widianto JAKARTA (Reuters) – South Korea, Japan and the United States will coordinate sanctions and close gaps in the international sanctions regime against North Korea, Seoul’s envoy for …

By Ueslei Marcelino and Victor Borges BRASILIA (Reuters) – Supporters of far-right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Monday attempted to invade the federal police headquarters in the capital Brasilia, in …

By Nichola Groom (Reuters) – New U.S. solar installations are on track to fall by nearly a quarter this year, with panel imports stalled by a ban on goods from …

By Humeyra Pamuk and Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States has shipped the first part of its power equipment aid to Ukraine, U.S. officials said on Monday, as …

By Erwin Seba and Stephanie Kelly WASHINGTON, Kan. (Reuters) – Canada’s TC Energy Corp said it had cleaned up almost 2,600 barrels of oil from the largest U.S. crude spill …

By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A Libyan intelligence operative suspected of making the bomb that blew up Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988, killing 270 people, …

By Rory Carroll (Reuters) – U.S. federal officials hit the brakes on Monday regarding the Jan. 1 adoption of national anti-doping rules for racehorses after a recent court ruling against …

By Deena Beasley (Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Mirati Therapeutics Inc’s lung cancer drug adagrasib, the company said on Monday, sending its shares up more than 8% …

By Alistair Smout LONDON (Reuters) – British Conservative politicians on Sunday launched two campaigns to address concerns about the direction of the party and the government, the latest challenge to …

By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for California to enforce a voter-approved ban in America’s most-populous state on flavored tobacco products, rejecting R.J. …

By Blake Brittain (Reuters) -Two songwriters have dropped their lawsuit claiming Grammy-winning musician Taylor Swift copied their lyrics in her 2014 number-one hit “Shake It Off,” according to court documents …

By Nate Raymond (Reuters) – A federal appeals court on Monday allowed New York to restrict the carrying of firearms on private property under a new law adopted in wake …

By Kanishka Singh and Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The body of well-known U.S. soccer journalist Grant Wahl, who died suddenly on Friday after collapsing while covering a match at …

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden is establishing an inter-agency group to coordinate efforts to counter antisemitism, Islamophobia and related forms of bias and discrimination, the White …

By Tyler Clifford (Reuters) – A Black-owned construction business on Monday dismantled and removed the last public Confederate statue on display in Richmond, Virginia, the city that served as the …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The White House on Monday condemned the rhetoric of Republican U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, who said recently that if she had been in charge of the Jan. …