By Michael Holden LONDON – Buckingham Palace says lessons have been learned following a review into bullying allegations made by royal staff against Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, although it…
By Roselle Chen NEW YORK – More than a dozen goats journeyed to Riverside Park in New York City on Wednesday to feast on weeds, a chemical-free way to remove…
By Rich McKay (Reuters) – At the height of World War Two, 18-year-old Hershel “Woody” Williams tried to join the U.S. Marine Corps, but a recruiter told the 5-foot-6 dairy…
By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON – A congressional panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol announced on Wednesday that it has subpoenaed former President Donald Trump’s White…
WASHINGTON – The House of Representatives panel probing the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol said on Wednesday it had subpoenaed Pat Cipollone, who was White House counsel…
By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY -Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives who is banned from communion in her home city of San Francisco because she supports…
By Tangi Salaün, Clotaire Achi and Ingrid Melander PARIS -A French court on Wednesday handed a life sentence to the lone survivor of the Islamist squad that killed 130 people…
By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI -Indirect talks between Tehran and Washington aimed at breaking an impasse over how to salvage Iran’s 2015 nuclear pact have ended in Qatar without the progress…
By Nichola Groom (Reuters) -The Biden administration’s first sale of oil and gas drilling rights on federal land garnered thin industry interest on Wednesday while environmental groups filed two separate…
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK -Donald Trump was formally released on Wednesday from an order finding him in contempt of court for having failed to comply with a subpoena from…
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK -R. Kelly was sentenced on Wednesday to 30 years in prison, following the multiplatinum R&B singer’s conviction for exploiting his stardom and wealth over decades…
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON – U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm violated a law that limits the political participation and speech of federal employees during an interview in late 2021, a…
WASHINGTON – U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on July 4 will participate in a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) naturalization ceremony for 52 people from 42 countries, including members…
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK -New York state and New York City sued 10 distributors of gun components to stop the sale of illegal, largely untraceable “ghost guns” that they…
(Reuters) – A former U.S. soldier captured in eastern Ukraine said he did not fire a single shot while fighting for the Ukrainian side, in a plea for leniency from…
By Andrew Chung and Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON -Ketanji Brown Jackson, picked by President Joe Biden to become the first Black woman on the U.S. Supreme Court, is set to be…
NEW YORK – Multi-platinum R&B singer R. Kelly was sentenced to 30 years in prison on Wednesday after being convicted of sex trafficking last year for exploiting his stardom and…
LONDON -The World Health Organization says “sustained transmission” of monkeypox worldwide could see the virus begin to move into high-risk groups, such as pregnant women, immunocompromised people and children. WHO…
PARIS – A criminal court on Wednesday imposed a lifetime prison sentence without any possibility of parole on Salah Abdeslam, the only surviving member of the group that killed 130…
By Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO -Doctors and bankers were among hundreds of Sri Lankans who marched on Wednesday to demand the government resolve a severe fuel shortage at the heart of…
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK -Lev Parnas, a onetime associate of Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, was sentenced to 20 months in prison on Wednesday for violating U.S.…
By Aislinn Laing, Andrea Shalal and Robin Emmott MADRID -U.S. President Joe Biden pledged more American troops, warplanes and warships for Europe on Wednesday as NATO agreed the biggest strengthening…
By Sabine Siebold MADRID – NATO agreed on Wednesday to put over 300,000 troops at high readiness from 2023, up from 40,000 previously, a new military line-up designed to better…
By Humeyra Pamuk and Andrea Shalal MADRID -The Biden administration threw its support on Wednesday behind the potential sale of U.S. F-16 fighter jets to Turkey, a day after Ankara…
By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) – The grandmother of the Uvalde school shooter was released from a hospital on Tuesday, just over a month after her grandson shot her and later…