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By Renee Maltezou and Kate Holton ATHENS/LONDON – Emergency services battled wildfires across swathes of southern Europe amid mass evacuations on Wednesday, as warnings sounded in London after Britain’s hottest …

By Andrew Chung WASHINGTON -The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday declined to reinstate President Joe Biden’s policy shifting the focus of America’s immigration enforcement toward public safety threats, handing a …

By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -A Louisiana judge on Thursday blocked enforcement of the state’s “trigger” laws banning abortion while a Florida appeals court declined to put on hold a prohibition …

WASHINGTON – The committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol will hold additional hearings in September as new evidence and witnesses continue to pour in, the …

MEXICO CITY – U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland spoke by phone with his Mexican counterpart Alejandro Gertz Manero Thursday afternoon regarding the extradition of Mexican drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, …

By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON -The defense in Steve Bannon’s trial rested its case on Thursday without calling any witnesses and asked the judge to acquit Donald Trump’s noted former …

(Reuters) – A unrelenting heat wave on Thursday was expected to scorch the U.S. East Coast and South for the third day as dangerously high temperatures had forecasters warning about …

By Luc Cohen and Hannah Lang NEW YORK -A former product manager at Coinbase Global and two others have been charged with wire fraud in the first insider trading case …

By David Shepardson (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden plans to nominate a former state transportation official to head the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) as the agency oversees a massive jump …

By Rose Horowitch WASHINGTON -The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday passed a bill to protect access to contraception, responding to concerns that it could be threatened by a conservative …

By Vitalii Hnidyi and Jonathan Spicer KHARKIV, Ukraine/ISTANBUL -Russia and Ukraine will sign a deal on Friday to reopen Ukraine’s Black Sea ports, Turkey said, a potential breakthrough that could …

By Jonathan Spicer and Michelle Nichols ISTANBUL/UNITED NATIONS – Ukraine, Russia, Turkey and U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will sign a deal on Friday to resume Ukraine’s Black Sea grain exports, …

By Julie Steenhuysen (Reuters) – Here is a rundown of possible treatments U.S. President Joe Biden will receive for COVID-19 and the risks he faces, having been infected most likely …

(Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris is considered to be a close COVID-19 contact of President Joe Biden following his positive test, a White House official said on Thursday. …

(Reuters) -Actor Amber Heard on Thursday filed to appeal a Virginia jury’s decision last month that she defamed ex-husband Johnny Depp when she claimed in a newspaper opinion piece that …

WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden’s risk of serious illness is dramatically lowered since he is double boosted and vaccinated, White House COVID-19 response chief Ashish Jha said on Thursday. Biden, …

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON – A judge on Thursday refused to quash subpoenas for 11 fake electors identified as targets in a probe in Georgia in alleged attempts by former …

By Dan Levine BIG SKY, Montana – Liberal Justice Elena Kagan said on Thursday that it would be a “dangerous thing for a democracy” if the conservative-majority U.S. Supreme Court …

By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) – The following is a summary of some recent studies on COVID-19. They include research that warrants further study to corroborate the findings and that has …

By David Shepardson (Reuters) – Officials halted flights into and out of Reagan Washington National Airport for about 13 minutes on Thursday after a drone sighting was reported, the Federal …

By Ali Sultan and Kawa Omar SULAIMANIYA, Iraq -Iraq’s government will call back the Iraqi charge d’affaires in Turkey for consultation after accusing Ankara of carrying out a strike on …

BAGHDAD – Hundreds of people protested in Baghdad on Thursday after an attack in northern Iraq killed nine people including a newly wed husband and a 1-year-old, a strike that …

By Crispian Balmer, Giuseppe Fonte and Angelo Amante ROME -Italy will hold a snap national election on Sept. 25 after Prime Minister Mario Draghi resigned following the collapse of his …