By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) – The following are summaries of some of the cancer research advances being presented the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) in …
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MADRID – Colombian singer Shakira and FC Barcelona defender Gerard Pique are separating, the couple confirmed in a statement via their PR agency on Saturday seen by Reuters. “We regret …
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By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL – South Korea and the United States staged their first combined military exercises involving an American aircraft carrier in more than four years, Seoul’s military said …
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By Mark Trevelyan LONDON -Senegal’s President Macky Sall said Russia’s Vladimir Putin had told him on Friday he was ready to enable the export of Ukrainian grain to ease a …
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LONDON -British police on Saturday briefly evacuated London’s Trafalgar Square, close to where celebrations are to be held later to mark Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee, after reports of a suspicious …
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By Amy Tennery NEW YORK – As advocates call on Washington to curb violence after mass shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde, its hometown team the Nationals are already taking up …
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By Roselle Chen NEW YORK – New York’s Empire State Building will shine in regal purple and gold on Saturday to honor the Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth. British Consul …
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By Barbara Goldberg (Reuters) -Harini Logan, 14, of San Antonio won the 2022 Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday after a first-ever “spell-off” was required for a champion to emerge …
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(Reuters) – Ukraine’s intelligence services are in communication with the captured Azovstal steelworks fighters and Kyiv is doing all it can to ensure their release, Ukrainian Interior Minister Denys Monastyrskiy …
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By Doina Chiacu, David Morgan and Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON -Peter Navarro, a former top adviser to ex-President Donald Trump, was charged on Friday with contempt of Congress for refusing to …
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By Liangping Gao and Yew Lun Tian BEIJING – China will launch a spacecraft on Sunday carrying three astronauts to the core module of the unfinished Chinese space station, where …
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By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) – A Republican congressman who came out in support of gun control after a mass shooting in his area dropped out of the race for his …
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WASHINGTON – The U.S. Justice Department has decided not to charge Mark Meadows and Dan Scavino, two former officials in ex-President Donald Trump’s White House, for failing to cooperate with …
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By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – Mariah Carey was sued on Friday over her 1994 Christmas classic “All I Want for Christmas Is You” by a songwriter who said he co-wrote …
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By Tom Hals (Reuters) -The father of a 10-year-old girl slain in the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting and a school employee have taken initial steps that could lead to lawsuits …
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(Reuters) – Ohio’s House of Representatives passed a bill that would ban transgender girls from school sports and require verification from a doctor if a student’s sex is called into …
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WASHINGTON -Relatives of victims killed in recent mass shootings in New York state and Texas as well as a fourth grader who survived last week’s attack will speak before two …
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By James Oliphant WASHINGTON – John Fetterman, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania and the state’s current lieutenant governor, said on Friday that he “almost died” from the …
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By Stephanie Kelly and Jarrett Renshaw NEW YORK -The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Friday issued biofuel blending mandates for 2022 and the prior two years – with this year’s …
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(Reuters) -Russia’s Foreign Ministry said it was summoning the heads of U.S. media outlets in Moscow to a meeting next Monday to notify them of tough measures in response to …
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By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO – U.S. health officials on Friday urged doctors to test for monkeypox if they suspect cases, saying there may be community-level spread but that the overall …
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By Jonathan Allen (Reuters) – Ohio is set to enact a law that allows teachers and other staff to be armed with guns in schools once they have completed up …
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By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) – A Uzbekistan citizen who is a resident of New York City who was convicted of conspiring to and attempting to provide material support to Islamic …
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By Manas Mishra and Mrinalika Roy (Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has raised concerns about a possible risk of heart inflammation from Novavax Inc’s COVID-19 vaccine, even as …
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WASHINGTON -A Michigan man was arrested outside the U.S. Capitol on Friday morning after he presented a fake badge to police who then discovered a BB gun, body armor and …