US and World News

By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) -The Port of Baltimore opened a temporary channel on Monday, freeing some tugs and barges that had been trapped by last week’s bridge collapse, but officials …

By Karen Lema and Mikhail Flores MANILA (Reuters) – The Philippines on Tuesday said its national security adviser and his U.S. counterpart discussed “coercive, aggressive and deceptive actions” by Beijing …

By Dan Peleschuk KYIV (Reuters) – Sometimes Ukrainian lawyer Khrystyna Vrashchuk shudders when she thinks about the work she does. She is one of more than 200 attorneys who are …

DAMASCUS (Reuters) -Suspected Israeli warplanes bombed Iran’s embassy in Syria on Monday in a strike that Iran said killed seven of its military advisers, including three senior commanders, marking a …

By John Geddie and Yoshifumi Takemoto TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan on Tuesday said it will lift its suspension of funding to the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) as the relief body …

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Reported discrimination and attacks against Muslims and Palestinians reached a record high in the U.S. in 2023, driven by rising Islamophobia and bias as …

(Reuters) – The U.S. told Iran that it “had no involvement” or advanced knowledge of an Israeli strike on a diplomatic compound in Syria, Axios reported on Monday citing a …

By Brendan Pierson and Tom Hals (Reuters) -Florida’s top court on Monday cleared the way for a Republican-backed law banning abortion after six weeks of pregnancy to take effect, but …

By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – France on Monday proposed a draft United Nations Security Council resolution that seeks options for possible U.N. monitoring of a ceasefire in the …

By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – U.S. Navy veteran Louis Conter, the last surviving crew member from the battleship USS Arizona, which was destroyed by Japanese warplanes in the …

By Jake Spring, Mircely Guanipa and Maria Ramirez SAO PAULO/MARACAY, Venezuela (Reuters) – Venezuela is battling a record number of wildfires, according to data released on Monday, as a climate …

By Ralph Tedy Erol PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) -Panic set in around downtown Port-au-Prince on Monday as wild shooting filled the streets of Haiti’s capital, with heavy gunfire near the national palace. …

By Herbert Lash and Kevin Buckland NEW YORK/TOKYO (Reuters) – Gold prices hit fresh all-time peaks on Monday with stocks on Wall Street closing mixed as optimism that the Federal …

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Donald Trump must stop verbal attacks on family members of the New York judge and others in his upcoming trial on charges stemming from a hush …

By Dan Whitcomb (Reuters) – A federal judge in Los Angeles on Monday rejected a string of motions filed by U.S. President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, to dismiss tax …

By Karen Freifeld (Reuters) -A Republican and a Democratic member of Congress are calling on the Biden administration to add seven Chinese biotech firms to a list created by the …

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States and Britain on Monday announced a new partnership on the science of artificial intelligence safety, amid growing concerns about upcoming next-generation versions. …

By Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign on Monday accused former President Donald Trump of stoking political violence after Trump shared a video on social …

By Chibuike Oguh NEW YORK (Reuters) -The Dow and S&P 500 edged lower on Monday, dragged down by investor worries over the timing of interest rate cuts by the Federal …

JERUSALEM/DOHA (Reuters) -Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged on Monday to shutter the local office of Qatari satellite television network Al Jazeera while the war in Gaza continues. Hours after his …

(This March 28 story has been corrected to say ‘Moscow invaded Ukraine,’ not ‘Moscow invaded Russia,’ in paragraph 4) By Karen Freifeld WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. is asking American …

By David Shepardson and Alexandra Alper WASHINGTON (Reuters) – California Governor Gavin Newsom and Senator Alex Padilla, both Democrats, urged the Biden administration on Monday to reverse its decision to …

By Humeyra Pamuk, Patricia Zengerle and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden’s administration is weighing whether to go ahead with an $18 billion arms transfer package to Israel …