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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Representative Mary Peltola of Alaska, a Democrat first elected in August, was reelected to a full two-year term on Wednesday, beating two Republicans, former vice presidential candidate …

BRASILIA (Reuters) -The head of Brazil’s electoral court Alexandre de Moraes on Wednesday rejected a complaint from President Jair Bolsonaro’s allies to challenge the presidential election, which the incumbent lost …

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Georgia Supreme Court allowed counties to hold early voting this Saturday in the U.S. Senate runoff election between Democratic incumbent Raphael Warnock and …

By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) – Authorities on Wednesday identified the people killed in a mass shooting at a Walmart store in Chesapeake, Virginia, ranging in age from a 16-year-old boy …

By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) -The suspect in a mass shooting that killed five people and wounded 17 at a Colorado Springs LGBTQ nightclub appeared in a court hearing on …

By Nate Raymond (Reuters) – A federal judge has blocked New York from restricting the carrying of guns on private property under a Democratic-backed law adopted following the U.S. Supreme …

PARIS (Reuters) -The European Space Agency on Wednesday named the first ever “parastronaut” in a major step towards allowing people with physical disabilities to work and live in space. The …

By Karolos Grohmann DOHA (Reuters) -Germany players placed their hands over their mouths during a team photo ahead of their game against Japan for their World Cup Group E on …

By Simon Lewis (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy appealed to the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday to take action to stop Russian air strikes targeting vital infrastructure that have …

By Jarrett Renshaw and Timothy Gardner (Reuters) -The White House is weighing a plan to increase inventories in the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve, fighting a supply crunch that could …

By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. congressional Democrats on Wednesday grappled with the daunting task of reviewing six years of former President Donald Trump’s tax returns as Republicans prepared …

By Tom Hals WILMINGTON, Del (Reuters) -Adult sexual abuse victims in New York will get an opportunity to sue over decades-old allegations beginning Thursday when a law revives a range …

By Matt Spetalnick and Laura Sanicola WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A New York Times report of a former anti-abortion leader’s claim that he was told in advance about the outcome of a …

By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) – Donald Trump lost his latest battle to keep his tax returns secret when the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for the release …

By Ricardo Brito and Maria Carolina Marcello BRASILIA (Reuters) -Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s attempt to challenge the election he lost last month appears weak on the merits, according to electoral …

(Reuters) – Manchester United’s U.S. owners have begun looking at options for the 20-times English soccer champions, including a new investment or a potential sale, 17 years after the Glazer …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S Justice Department is seeking to question former Vice President Mike Pence as a witness in connection with its criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump’s efforts …

By Dan Peleschuk and Pavel Polityuk KYIV (Reuters) – Russia unleashed a missile barrage across Ukraine on Wednesday, forcing shutdowns of nuclear power plants and killing at least six civilians …

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Most galaxies are built around humongous black holes. While many of these are comparatively docile, like the one at our Milky Way’s center, some …

By Max Hunder, Dan Peleschuk and Pavel Polityuk KYIV (Reuters) – Russian missiles on Wednesday knocked out electricity in the Kyiv region and elsewhere across the country, killing at least …

By Steve Scherer OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government learned a lesson when former U.S. President Donald Trump forced the renegotiation of the North American trade pact …

By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) -Georgia can enforce a law banning abortion after six weeks of pregnancy while the state appeals a lower court order striking it down, the state’s highest …

By Gabriel Stargardter and Brad Haynes RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – The United States is looking to crack down on environmental criminals behind surging deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, using …

By Andrew Chung (Reuters) – Six states on Wednesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reject President Joe Biden’s bid to reinstate his plan to cancel billions of dollars in …