US and World News

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden said on Friday the U.S. will impose costs for Russia’s “appalling attempts” to use Americans as bargaining chips in a statement …

(Corrects ninth paragraph to show Gossett was nominated for an Emmy award eight times, not seven.) By Patricia Reaney and Kanishka Singh (Reuters) – Louis Gossett Jr., the first Black …

(Reuters) -The U.S. House of Representatives has set a strict ban on congressional staffers’ use of Microsoft’s Copilot generative AI assistant, Axios reported on Friday. “The Microsoft Copilot application has …

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Joe Biden on Friday acknowledged “the pain being felt” by many Arab Americans over the war in Gaza and over U.S. support of Israel …

By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Donald Trump on Friday asked a Georgia appeals court to disqualify the district attorney prosecuting him for trying to overturn his 2020 election defeat in …

By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign is appealing directly to supporters of former Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley, who was the last major opponent to Donald …

(Reuters) – A Texas appeals court on Thursday reversed its prior ruling and acquitted a woman who had been sentenced to five years in prison for attempting to vote in …

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Membership in the United Auto Workers union fell 3.3% in 2023 to 370,000, its lowest level since 2009, according to a report filed on Friday …

By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) – Israel sustained its aerial and ground bombardment of the Gaza Strip on Friday, killing dozens of Palestinians, as fighting raged around Gaza City’s main …

By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian prosecutors have asked the justice ministry to consider labelling Alla Pugacheva, the queen of Soviet pop music, as a “foreign agent”, a move that …

(Reuters) -The U.S. Office of Defect Investigations (ODI) has opened a preliminary evaluation of a failure of the K1 snap ring in Chrysler-parent Stellantis’ year 2022 RAM 3500, 4500, and …

By David Shepardson and Daniel Trotta (Reuters) – The U.S. government awarded the state of Maryland an initial $60 million in emergency funds on Thursday to clear debris and begin …

By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia said on Friday that major powers needed a new approach to North Korea, accusing the United States and its allies of ratcheting up military …

(Reuters) -Ukraine has received a $1.5 billion tranche of funding under a World Bank programme, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said on Friday, helping it pay for its budget and social …

By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. prices increased less than expected in February, with the cost of services outside housing and energy slowing significantly, keeping a June interest rate cut …

By Jeff Mason NEW YORK (Reuters) -President Joe Biden and his Democratic predecessor, Barack Obama, headlined a star-studded fundraiser with former President Bill Clinton on Thursday, offering a robust defense …

By John Irish and Juliette Jabkhiro PARIS (Reuters) – France has asked about 45 foreign countries to contribute several thousand extra military, police and civilian personnel to help safeguard the …

By Irene Wang HIROSHIMA (Reuters) – Best picture winner “Oppenheimer” finally premiered in Japan on Friday, eight months after a controversial grassroots marketing push and concerns about how its nuclear …

By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell says the central bank is not growing more tolerant of higher inflation even though the latest policymaker projections raised …

By Adrian Portugal CUTUD, Philippines (Reuters) – Catholic devotees were nailed to crosses in sweltering heat north of the Philippines capital Manila on Good Friday in a re-enactment of Jesus …

The Biden administration purchased 2.8 million barrels to partially refill the strategic petroleum reserve (SPR) at prices significantly higher than prevailing prices when former President Donald Trump proposed to top …

Legacy media outlets and President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ) neglected to mention that Sam Bankman-Fried was a top donor to Democrat-aligned causes in their releases on the disgraced …

A Chinese Communist Party-linked battery manufacturing giant is suing a Michigan man in a bid to get him off land near which the company plans to build its plant. Gotion …