US and World News

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States on Thursday sanctioned individuals and companies for allegedly providing financial services to and facilitating weapons procurement for Hezbollah, the U.S. Treasury Department …

By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) – A co-owner of a Massachusetts compounding pharmacy whose mold-tainted drugs sparked a deadly fungal meningitis outbreak in 2012 was sentenced on Thursday to one …

By Daniel Wiessner and Brendan Pierson (Reuters) – An employee at the Walmart in Chesapeake, Virginia, where a supervisor shot six co-workers dead last week may struggle to prevail in …

By Bhanvi Satija and Khushi Mandowara (Reuters) -Biotech firm Roivant Sciences on Thursday launched a company with Pfizer Inc focused on an experimental bowel disease treatment, as the drugmakers seek …

JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu reached a coalition deal with the far-right Religious Zionism party, bringing him closer to securing a new government after an election last month, …

(Reuters) -Kyiv’s mayor told residents on Thursday to stock up on water, food and warm clothes in case of a total blackout caused by Russian air strikes, and said residents …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Representative James Clyburn on Thursday was elected to be assistant House Democratic leader starting in January, after Representative David Cicilline dropped his bid for the job …

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -Dutch prosecutors said on Thursday they would not file an appeal regarding the outcome in the trial over the 2014 downing of Flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine, making …

By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) – The United Nations and partners on Thursday appealed for a record $51.5 billion in aid money for 2023, with tens of millions of additional …

(Reuters) – Russia’s Defence Ministry and the head of Ukraine’s presidential administration said the two countries had swapped 50 service personnel on Thursday in the latest prisoner exchange between the …

(Reuters) – The United States is seeing initial signs of progress in tackling inflation, President Joe Biden said after U.S. consumer spending data released on Thursday showed spending accelerated while …

By Brendan O’Brien (Reuters) – The city of Minneapolis will pay $50,000 each to 12 people injured by police during demonstrations that erupted after a white officer killed George Floyd …

By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) – Closing arguments are set to begin on Thursday in the criminal tax fraud trial of Donald Trump’s real estate company on charges of …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer vowed on Thursday to complete work quickly on legislation to avoid a national rail strike and mandate paid sick leave for …

By Andrew Osborn and Caleb Davis (Reuters) -Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused the United States and NATO of playing a direct and dangerous role in the Ukraine war and …

By Diego Oré MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – The Mexican president’s determination to carry out a contentious electoral overhaul has helped unite a fractured opposition ahead of the last major elections …

(Reuters) – Kenya’s marathon world record-holder Eliud Kipchoge will make his Boston Marathon debut on April 17 next year, the 38-year-old said on Thursday, as he seeks a fifth victory …

By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) -A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday revived a sex discrimination claim against the University of Connecticut (UConn) by a former soccer player whose scholarship was revoked …

By Sumit Khanna AHMEDABAD, India (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat began voting on Thursday with his Hindu nationalist party expected to win a seventh …

By Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States is “deeply concerned” about detained American Paul Whelan in Russia, and has not been able to get information from Moscow on …

(Reuters) -Hawaii’s Mauna Loa, the world’s largest active volcano, began erupting on Sunday for the first time since 1984, ending its longest quiet period in recorded history. The night sky …