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FBI Paid Twitter Millions, Had Close Relationship With Execs And Staff, Emails Show John Hugh DeMastri on December 19, 2022 The FBI paid Twitter millions as a reimbursement for the …

By Tom Balmforth (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Belarusian counterpart extolled ever-closer ties on Monday as Putin visited Minsk for the first time since 2019, hardly mentioning the …

By Paresh Dave OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) – State agencies in Louisiana and West Virginia on Monday became the latest to ban the use of the popular social media service TikTok …

(Reuters) -Pharmacy chains CVS Health Corp and Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc limited purchase of children’s pain drugs as they face supply constraints and high demand with the United States experiencing …

By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United States accused U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres of “apparently yielding to Russian threats” and not sending officials to Ukraine to inspect drones …

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Just days after condemning an assassination attempt on a prominent journalist, Mexico’s president on Monday criticized the media for allegedly protecting special interest groups, even singling …

By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The U.N. Security Council is likely to vote on Wednesday on a draft resolution demanding an immediate end to violence in Myanmar and …

By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. military’s Cyber Command hunted down foreign adversaries overseas ahead of this year’s mid-term elections, taking down their infrastructure before they could strike, …

By David Lewis and Daphne Psaledakis NAIROBI/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Senator Jim Risch, the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has requested a review of U.S. security assistance and …

By Chris Taylor NEW YORK (Reuters) – When Jenny Rosenberger’s daughter started thinking about college, she felt what a lot of parents in America do: Totally overwhelmed. The senior vice …

(Reuters) – Chief U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Roberts on Monday at the request of Republican officials in 19 states temporarily blocked the Biden administration from later this week ending …

LAREDO, Texas – Laredo Sector Border Patrol intercepted a human smuggling attempt at the I-35 checkpoint north of Laredo, Texas.  On Dec. 17, as Border Patrol agents while working at …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. House of Representatives panel on Monday asked federal prosecutors to charge former President Donald Trump with obstruction and insurrection for his role in sparking the …

By Tyler Clifford (Reuters) – A budding winter storm is expected to bring frigid conditions across much of the United States this week, including snowfall likely to cause travel delays …

By Sharon Bernstein SANTA ROSA, Calif. (Reuters) – Five years after wildfire ravaged the California wine country city of Santa Rosa, only mud and a concrete pad remain atop a …

BOGOTA (Reuters) -Colombian leftist guerrilla group the National Liberation Army (ELN) on Monday declared a nine-day unilateral ceasefire over the Christmas period, as part of a bid to support peace …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House said on Monday an expiration of COVID-19-era restrictions blocking migrants at the U.S.- Mexico border does not mean the southern border is open. U.S. …

By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York City police arrested a woman caught stealing presents from beneath Robert De Niro’s Christmas tree after breaking into the actor’s apartment …

By Martin Quin Pollard and Liz Lee BEIJING (Reuters) -China reported its first COVID-related deaths in weeks on Monday amid rising doubts over whether the official count was capturing the …

SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Brazilian President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva scored two key victories on Monday, after the Supreme Court granted an injunction allowing him to increase social investment, while …

By Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Negotiations in the U.S. Senate to narrow sentencing disparities between crack and powder cocaine have stalled, two sources said on Monday, in what could …

By Anirban Sen NEW YORK (Reuters) – Blackwells Capital, a hedge fund seeking to replace some of the board directors at Global Net Lease Inc and Necessity Retail REIT Inc, …

By Toby Sterling and Ank Kuipers THE HAGUE (Reuters) – Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Monday apologised on behalf of the Dutch State for its historical role in slavery, and …

CINCINNATI—On December 4, 5 and 9, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers seized three shipments of improperly imported Sildenafil pills and jelly transiting through the Port of Cincinnati. Officers …

By Arshad Mohammed and John Irish WASHINGTON/PARIS (Reuters) – For nearly two years the United States has tried and failed to negotiate a revival of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal …