Fierce winds drive wildfires in U.S. Southwest
By Andrew Hay (Reuters) -Howling winds pushed wildfires towards villages in northern New Mexico on Friday, forcing thousands to flee homes as blazes burned across the parched U.S. Southwest. Over…
By Andrew Hay (Reuters) -Howling winds pushed wildfires towards villages in northern New Mexico on Friday, forcing thousands to flee homes as blazes burned across the parched U.S. Southwest. Over…
By Jan Wolfe (Reuters) -Republican U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene on Friday told a lawyer for voters seeking to disqualify her from running for re-election that she did not know…
By Pavel Polityuk KYIV/MARIUPOL, Ukraine -Moscow wants to take full control over southern Ukraine, a Russian general said on Friday, a statement Ukraine said gave the lie to Russia’s previous…
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON -The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) apologized late Friday for failing to provide advance notification to the U.S. Capitol Police of a small airplane flight that prompted…
WASHINGTON -President Joe Biden intends to nominate career diplomat Michael Ratney to be U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia, the White House said on Friday, amid strained relations between Washington and…
By David Morgan WASHINGTON -Congressman Kevin McCarthy, the top Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives, came under fire from some of his fellow party members, after an audio recording…
By Jenna Zucker TORONTO – Canada attracted more than one million travelers in a week for the first time since the pandemic, government data showed on Friday, as easing of…
By Christine Kiernan and Aleksandra Michalska NEW YORK – Central Park, New York City’s 843-acre green lung created in 1858, is now a climate change laboratory that researchers hope will…
WASHINGTON – U.S. President Joe Biden took an unusually harsh swipe at his Republican opponents during Earth Day remarks on Friday, calling their party the “MAGA party,” a reference to…
By Jonathan Allen (Reuters) – Several voting rights groups filed a lawsuit on Friday challenging Florida’s new congressional map, saying it unfairly diluted the voting power of Black residents to…
By Layli Foroudi and Elizabeth Pineau AUXERRE, France -French President Emmanuel Macron and far-right challenger Marine Le Pen made final appeals on Friday to undecided voters weighing fears of what…
By Dave Graham MEXICO CITY -Mexican officials are concerned the repeal of a measure adopted under the Trump administration to tighten the U.S. border will encourage a spike in migration…
By Jason Lange WASHINGTON – Most Americans support a flexible approach to the lingering COVID-19 pandemic, with cities reimposing mask mandates when cases surge, even as a growing number are…
(Reuters) – COVID-19 was the third leading cause of death in the United States for the second year in a row in 2021, with death rates rising for most age…
By Jeff Mason and Trevor Hunnicutt SEATTLE -U.S. President Joe Biden marked Earth Day on Friday with a speech promoting a new effort to protect old-growth forests as he visits…
By Brenda Goh and Martin Quin Pollard SHANGHAI -Stiffening resolve after three weeks of strict lockdown, authorities warned Shanghai’s 25 million frazzled residents on Friday that their purgatory would go…
By Kirsty Needham, David Brunnstrom and Michael Martina SYDNEY/WASHINGTON -A senior-level U.S. delegation met the Solomon Islands’ leader on Friday and warned that Washington would have “significant concerns and respond…
WASHINGTON – Donald Trump’s former chief of staff Mark Meadows, who echoed the Republican former president’s false claims of widespread fraud in the 2020 election, was registered to vote in…
By James Oliphant CORTLAND, Ohio – Josh Mandel, a leading contender to win the nomination in the U.S. Senate Republican primary battle in Ohio, expressed confidence this week that victory…
By Roselle Chen NEW YORK – The famous “Washington Crossing the Delaware” painting, which hung in the White House from the 1970s to 2014, is coming up for auction next…
By Asif Shahzad ISLAMABAD – Pakistan’s National Security Council, a body of top civil and military leaders, on Friday rejected ousted Prime Minister Imran Khan’s accusations that United States had…
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump acknowledged “some responsibility” for what happened the day of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy told Republican…
By Andriy Perun and Oleh Papushenko LVIV, Ukraine – Sofia Telehina’s grandmother called her in tears more than a month ago from the besieged port city of Mariupol in eastern…
MADRID – The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in favour of a Jewish family that is trying to reclaim a Camille Pissarro painting seized by the Nazis in 1939 and…
By Andrew MacAskill and Krishna N. Das NEW DELHI -Britain and India agreed on Friday to step up defence and business cooperation during a visit to New Delhi by Boris…