Cleveland ex-officer who shot Tamir Rice quits rural police force
By Randi Love (Reuters) – The former Cleveland officer who shot and killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice almost eight years ago has resigned as the sole member of a rural Pennsylvania…
By Randi Love (Reuters) – The former Cleveland officer who shot and killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice almost eight years ago has resigned as the sole member of a rural Pennsylvania…
By Sergiy Karazy and Max Hunder KYIV – Ukraine opposes Canada handing over a turbine to Russia’s state-controlled Gazprom for natural gas supplies to Germany as the move would contravene…
By Natalie Grover and Ludwig Burger LONDON -The European Medicines Agency (EMA) is open to using next generation COVID-19 vaccines that target older offshoots of the Omicron variant this fall,…
By Kate Holton, Elizabeth Piper and Alistair Smout LONDON -Scandal-ridden Boris Johnson announced on Thursday he would quit as British prime minister after he dramatically lost the support of his…
(Reuters) -Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, convicted last year of murdering George Floyd, was sentenced on Thursday to 21 years in prison on separate federal charges of violating Floyd’s…
WASHINGTON – A guilty plea by U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner, who was detained in February at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport with vape cartridges containing hashish oil, will not impact negotiations…
By Jason Lange and Alexandra Ulmer (Reuters) -Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, a rising Republican star, has been careful not to nurture growing speculation that he will make a presidential bid…
By Sudipto Ganguly LONDON -Rafa Nadal’s hopes of completing a rare calendar year Grand Slam ended on Thursday when the Spaniard pulled out of his highly-anticipated Wimbledon semi-final showdown against…
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK – Ghislaine Maxwell on Thursday formally appealed her conviction and 20-year prison sentence for helping the late financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse underage girls over…
WASHINGTON – The U.S. House Oversight Committee has asked the chief executives of three gunmakers to testify on July 20 as part of its investigation into the firearms industry following…
(Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday said it had charged a Haitian gang member with hostage-taking for his role in the kidnapping of 16 American missionaries last year.…
By Gabriella Borter (Reuters) – South Carolina lawmakers held a public hearing on Thursday to consider banning nearly all abortions in the state, following the lead of other Republican-led states…
By Humeyra Pamuk (Reuters) – Families of U.S. citizens detained abroad are stepping up pressure on President Joe Biden to intervene to try to free them – some held by…
By Richard Cowan and Rose Horowitch WASHINGTON -The congressional committee investigating the deadly Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol will hold a hearing on the evening of July…
By Simon Lewis KRAMATORSK/SLOVIANSK, Ukraine – In the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, mechanic-turned-soldier Artchk helps shore up defences against imminent Russian attack while, nearby, farmer Vasyl Avramenko laments the…
By Alexander Cornwell ABU DHABI – A U.S. special envoy said on Thursday she discussed prejudice towards Jews with officials in Saudi Arabia ahead of a visit by President Joe…
OTTAWA/WASHINGTON -The United States has agreed to lift tariffs on Canadian solar products after a trade dispute settlement panel sided with Ottawa earlier this year, Canadian Trade Minister Mary Ng…
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK -Sacha Baron Cohen on Thursday defeated an appeal by former Alabama judge Roy Moore who had accused the British comedian of defamation for falsely portraying…
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK – A Venezuelan media mogul sanctioned by the United States said he has received permission from Washington to make the payments necessary to avoid losing…
By Erwin Seba HOUSTON -Forecasters at Colorado State University on Thursday held steady the number of hurricanes they expect to appear in the Atlantic during 2022. In an update to…
LONDON – Boris Johnson resigned as prime minister on Thursday, triggering a search for a new British leader. Below is how the process to find Johnson’s successor will work: –…
By Andrew MacAskill and Kylie MacLellan LONDON – Boris Johnson said on Thursday he was resigning as Britain’s prime minister, bowing to calls from ministerial colleagues and lawmakers in his…
By Stanley Widianto NUSA DUA, Indonesia -Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will have his first close encounter with the fiercest critics of his country’s invasion of Ukraine at a G20…
(Reuters) – Tesla Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk and Shivon Zilis, a top executive at his brain-chip startup Neuralink, had twins in November 2021, Insider reported. In April, Musk and…
By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis said he hoped that the recent sale of a luxury London building at the centre of an ongoing corruption trial meant the…