US and World News

(Reuters) – U.S. private forecaster AccuWeather expects an above-average 2024 Atlantic hurricane season with a near-record number of storms and a greater than usual risk of direct impacts in parts …

DUBLIN (Reuters) -Ireland said on Wednesday it would intervene in South Africa’s genocide case against Israel, in the strongest signal to date of Dublin’s concern about Israeli operations in Gaza …

By Nichola Groom (Reuters) – Two small solar manufacturers on Wednesday said they are joining forces to make panels that will enable their customers, U.S. solar project developers, to collect …

By Dave Sherwood and Alien Fernandez SANTIAGO DE CUBA (Reuters) – A crowd swarms the steps of a small state-run market on the outskirts of Santiago, Cuba’s second-largest city, sweating …

By Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber GENEVA (Reuters) – A United Nations expert who published a report saying there were reasonable grounds to believe Israel has committed genocide in Gaza during its military …

By Joe Cash BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s President Xi Jinping met American business leaders at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Wednesday, as the government tries to …

By Max A. Cherney SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Artificial intelligence benchmarking group MLCommons on Wednesday released a fresh set of tests and results that rate the speed at which top-of-the-line …

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian oil firms face delays of up to several months to be paid for crude and fuel as banks in China, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates …

MOSCOW/DUSHANBE (Reuters) – Russia remanded in custody on Tuesday a Kyrgyzstan-born man suspected of involvement in Friday’s mass shooting at a Moscow concert hall, and sent investigators to Tajikistan to …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Investigators from the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) have boarded the ship that crashed into the Francis Scott Key bridge and recovered its data recorder, NTSB …

By Cordelia Hsu SYDNEY (Reuters) -Climate change and efforts to keep up with advances in artificial intelligence top the agenda for a Commonwealth meeting set for the small Pacific Islands …

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -Visa and Mastercard reached an estimated $30 billion settlement to limit credit and debit card fees for merchants, with some savings likely to be …

By Saqib Iqbal Ahmed NEW YORK (Reuters) – Possible confusion over the new stock symbol for former President Donald Trump’s Truth Social saw some investor brokerage balances briefly jump by …

By Medha Singh and Yuvraj Malik (Reuters) -Shares of Donald Trump’s Trump Media & Technology Group surged as much as 59% on Tuesday in their Nasdaq debut, lifted by the …

Eight members of the congressional “Squad” have requested $224 million in earmarks in key spending bills since 2023, according to an investigation by OpenTheBooks. Many of the earmarks are part …

The Army is reorganizing its Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) programs to emphasize units at colleges and universities located in southern and southwestern U.S., Army Times reported Tuesday. By 2030, …

Republican Rep. Troy Nehls of Texas is under review by the House of Representatives Select Committee on Ethics, according to a press release issued by the committee on Tuesday. Nehls …

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace and legal analyst Andrew Weissmann expressed worry about former President Donald Trump’s rhetoric following a judge issuing a gag order against him on Tuesday. Judge Juan …

A new recall petition to remove Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom of California from office was approved on Tuesday by the state’s Secretary of State for signature collection. Newsom previously faced and …

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit against Ohio Tuesday after state lawmakers passed a law banning transgender hormones and sex-change surgeries for minors. The law, which is …

Independent Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced on Tuesday that Silicon Valley lawyer Nicole Shanahan will be his 2024 running mate for president. Kennedy had also been considering New York Jets …

“Nearshoring” – or “friend shoring” as Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen describes it – was supposed to help companies and the U.S. economy derisk from China. The concept began with President …

BYD, China’s top electric vehicle (EV) maker, recorded a substantial increase in profits in its 2023 annual report published on Tuesday. BYD previously dethroned billionaire Elon Musk’s Tesla as the …

The judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s New York hush money case issued a gag order on Tuesday. The order bars Trump from making statements about witnesses, prosecutors other than …