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By Brenda Goh and Kevin Yao SHANGHAI/BEIJING -Shanghai set out plans on Monday for the end of a painful COVID-19 lockdown that has lasted more than six weeks, heavily bruising …

By Jenna Zucker, Steve Gorman and Moira Warburton BUFFALO, N.Y. – An 18-year-old white gunman shot 10 people to death and wounded three on Saturday at a grocery store in …

By Jan Wolfe and Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON – A lawyer who worked on Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign faces a criminal trial this week on charges of lying to …

By Nathan Layne and Kia Johnson CUMMING, Ga. – When a Forsyth County, Georgia, man last week challenged the eligibility of 13,000 voters, a power that a new state law …

By Dawn Chmielewski LOS ANGELES -A gunman opened fire in a Southern California church during a lunch banquet on Sunday, killing one person and wounding five, before churchgoers detained the …

KYIV -Ukraine said on Monday troops defending the country’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, had repelled Russian forces and advanced as far as the border with Russia. Reuters could not immediately verify …

(Reuters) – United States Senator Chris Van Hollen said on Sunday he suffered a minor stroke after experiencing discomfort while delivering a speech in Western Maryland. Van Hollen, 63, was …

By John Revill BERN -Switzerland’s fabled neutral status is about to face its biggest test in decades, with the defence ministry tilting closer to Western military powers in response to …

By Jenna Zucker and Gabriella Borter BUFFALO, N.Y. -A white teenager who killed 10 people in a racist attack at a western New York grocery store in a Black neighborhood …

ALMON: Forgetting Our Humanity Megan Almon on May 15, 2022 The leak of the Supreme Court draft ruling on Roe v. Wade has ignited a cultural firestorm. While the Supreme …

FROM SOLAR GRID TO CATTLE SHED: How Greenpeace’s Dream Of A Solar-Powered Village Fell Apart In Just A Few Years Thomas Catenacci on May 15, 2022 A Greenpeace-funded solar energy …

By Jessica DiNapoli (Reuters) -A former police officer, the 86-year-old mother of Buffalo, New York’s former fire commissioner, and a grandmother who fed the needy for decades were among those …

By Rajendra Jadhav, Mayank Bhardwaj and Nigam Prusty MUMBAI -India banned wheat exports on Saturday days after saying it was targeting record shipments this year, as a scorching heat wave …

By Jenna Zucker BUFFALO, N.Y. – The Tops Friendly Market chosen by the white gunman to launch his deadly racist attack on Saturday served as an anchor of sorts for …

By Humeyra Pamuk, John Irish and Johan Ahlander BERLIN/STOCKHOLM -NATO and the United States said on Sunday they were confident Turkey would not hold up membership of Finland and Sweden …

By Jonathan Landay and Tom Balmforth RUSKA LOZOVA, Ukraine -Russia pummelled positions in the east of Ukraine on Sunday, its defence ministry said, as it sought to encircle Ukrainian forces …

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON -The Washington-area subway system said Sunday nearly half of the system’s 500 rail operators have lapsed recertification and will remove some from service, a decision that …

By Tim Reid and Kanishka Singh (Reuters) – An 18-year-old white man suspected of fatally shooting 10 people in a Black neighborhood in Buffalo, New York, appears to be the …

LONDON -White, brightly burning munitions were shown cascading down on the Azovstal steel works in the Ukrainian port of Mariupol in what a British military expert said looked like either …

WASHINGTON -Pennsylvania Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman, the leading Democratic candidate in the race to replace retiring Republican U.S. Senator Pat Toomey, said on Sunday he had suffered a stroke but …

By Daphne Psaledakis and Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON – U.S. President Joe Biden said on Sunday that police officers must deliver both effective crime deterrence and equal justice in a message …

By Maya Gebeily, Timour Azhari and Laila Bassam BEIRUT -Lebanese voted on Sunday in the first parliamentary election since the country’s economic collapse, with many saying they hoped to deal …

By Praveen Menon CANBERRA -Activists at one of the world’s longest-running protests for the rights of indigenous people are not pinning their hopes for change on Australia’s May 21 general …

By Riham Alkousaa BERLIN -Germany’s conservative CDU party was on track to win a regional election in North Rhine-Westphalia on Sunday, but the Green party could emerge as “kingmaker” in …

(Reuters) -U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said on Sunday he expected the Senate to vote on Wednesday to approve about $40 billion in proposed aid to help Ukraine resist …