By Karen Lema MANILA (Reuters) – Tensions over Taiwan are expected to be on the agenda when U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris meets Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr next week,…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday disputed Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s comment that missiles that landed in Poland were not of Ukranian origin. “That’s not the evidence,”…
DUBAI (Reuters) -An attack on a tanker off the coast of Oman on Tuesday was carried out by an Iranian-made drone, U.S. Central Command said in a statement, adding that…
By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Karen Bass, a Democratic U.S. congresswoman, was projected on Wednesday to beat Rick Caruso in the race for Los Angeles mayor, becoming the first…
By Brendan O’Brien (Reuters) -A Wisconsin man convicted of killing six people and injuring dozens more when he drove through a Christmas parade near Milwaukee last year was sentenced to…
By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said he would not testify before the House of Representatives panel probing the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the…
By Ebrahim Harris KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – In a dining hall at Malaysia’s International Islamic University, 22-year-old undergraduate Hajar Wahab stood next to a makeshift polling booth, as she showed…
By Yimou Lee, Sarah Wu and Greg Torode TAIPEI (Reuters) – When Chinese authorities detained a Taiwanese citizen in China in August for an alleged violation of security laws, officials…
By Sharon Bernstein (Reuters) – Thousands of mink were roaming the countryside of northwestern Ohio on Wednesday after vandals broke into a farm that raises the fur-bearing creatures and released…
By Moira Warburton WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Senate on Wednesday voted to advance a bill protecting federal recognition of same-sex marriage, prompted by concerns that a more conservative Supreme Court…
(Reuters) – With Republicans clinching control of the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday, the party will need to elect a speaker when the new Congress is sworn in, normally…
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republicans will use their new majority in the U.S. House of Representatives to intensify Washington’s focus on China, and more closely monitor aid going…
By Gram Slattery and David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Top U.S. Senate Republican Mitch McConnell held off a challenge to his leadership on Wednesday as some of Donald Trump’s closest…
(Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden, a Democrat, on Wednesday congratulated Republicans on their projected majority in the U.S. House of Representatives following last week’s midterm elections, saying he would…
By Brendan O’Brien (Reuters) -The University of Virginia canceled its last home football game of the season on Wednesday, days after three members of the team were shot dead by…
By Ted Hesson and Bastiaan Slabbers PHILADELPHIA, (Reuters) -Philadelphia emergency personnel took a child to hospital on Wednesday from a bus that had just arrived carrying migrants from the U.S.-Mexico…
By Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States and its allies on Wednesday criticized Russia in the United Nations Security Council over missile attacks on Ukraine in a meeting…
By Steve Holland and Andy Sullivan PALM BEACH, Fla. (Reuters) -Donald Trump, who has mounted relentless attacks on the integrity of U.S. voting since his 2020 election defeat, on Tuesday…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senate Republicans, who failed to win control of the chamber in last week’s midterm elections, on Wednesday voted to keep Mitch McConnell as their caucus leader,…
By Leroy Leo and Khushi Mandowara (Reuters) -A panel of advisers to the U.S. health regulator on Wednesday recommended the approval of Ardelyx Inc’s drug for chronic kidney disease patients…
By Jonathan Landay and Tom Balmforth KHERSON, Ukraine (Reuters) – Residents in Ukraine’s southern city of Kherson call the two-storey police station “The Hole”. Vitalii Serdiuk, a pensioner, said he…
By Luc Cohen and Jacqueline Thomsen (Reuters) – Former President Donald Trump, who on Tuesday announced he will run again for the White House in 2024, faces a series of…
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A member of the far-right Oath Keepers told a jury on Wednesday that she got “swept up” in the moment when she stormed…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Three environmental groups have sued the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources for exempting Venture Global LNG from needing an environmental permit to build a liquefied natural gas…
(Reuters) – An earthquake of magnitude 5.3 struck western Texas on Wednesday, some 45 km (27.96 miles) from the town of Pecos, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said. The…