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By Randi Love (Reuters) – They’re planning days around air conditioning in Oklahoma, monitoring the grid in Texas and keeping an eye out for sharks as they try to cool …

WASHINGTON – A bill to protect gay marriage rights secured enough votes to pass in the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday, garnering some bipartisan support. Voting was continuing on …

PRAGUE – As a heat wave rolls over Europe, bringing temperatures as high as 33 Celsius (91 Fahrenheit) in Prague on Tuesday, the ICE PUB in downtown Prague offers a …

By Kate Holton and Muvija M LONDON -Britain was braced for temperatures to hit 40C for the first time this week, with ministers urging the public to stay at home …

By Natalia Zinets KYIV – Russian President Vladimir Putin met Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran on Tuesday, stressing closer ties in the face of Western pressure over …

By Jason Lange WASHINGTON – U.S. President Joe Biden’s public approval rating fell to 36% this week to tie the lowest rating of his 19 months in the White House …

By Alasdair Pal, Uditha Jayasinghe and Devjyot Ghoshal COLOMBO – Sri Lanka’s main opposition leader withdrew from the presidential race on Tuesday and promised support to a low-profile politician from …

By Scott DiSavino (Reuters) -Power use in Texas and other Central U.S. states is expected to shatter all-time records in coming days as homes and businesses crank up their air …

By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON -U.S. President Joe Biden, with flowers in hand, and first lady Jill Biden welcomed Ukraine’s first lady, Olena Zelenska, to the White House on Tuesday for …

By Natalie Grover LONDON – An alliance of companies has pledged to ensure equitable access to vaccines and treatments for pandemics, as the friction around intellectual property rights for COVID-19 …

(Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Tuesday it was hard to trust those in charge at Hockey Canada after reports that the national governing body maintained a …

(Reuters) – Vaccine maker Novavax on Tuesday said that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had cleared a lot of its COVID vaccine for release in the United States, and …

KYIV -Ukraine’s parliament dismissed the domestic security chief and prosecutor general on Tuesday, two days after President Volodymyr Zelenskiy suspended them for failing to root out Russian spies. Ivan Bakanov …

(Reuters) – Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio ended his campaign for Congress on Tuesday, saying he was bowing out of politics after it became clear to him …

(Reuters) -A transformer caught fire at Nevada’s Hoover Dam on Tuesday and was quickly extinguished by the fire brigade without any injuries or interruption to the power grid, the U.S. …

(Reuters) – The BA.5 subvariant of Omicron was estimated to make up 77.9% of the circulating coronavirus variants in the United States for the week ended July 16, the U.S. …

By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON -U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said on Tuesday that prescription drug cost controls and an Obamacare fix are the components Democrats will seek for now …

By Nate Raymond (Reuters) – The Mississippi abortion clinic at the heart of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn its landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision on Tuesday dropped …

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON – The evolution of penguins from their flying seabird ancestors into the flightless denizens of marine environments from frigid Antarctica to the tropical Galapagos Islands is …

By Mark Trevelyan LONDON – A budding courtship between Russia and Iran is an unwelcome development for the West that the United States will watch with concern, but it falls …

WASHINGTON -Democrat Bennie Thompson, chairman of the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, said on Tuesday he has contracted COVID-19 but that the panel’s …

WASHINGTON – U.S. President Joe Biden will issue executive orders on Wednesday aimed at addressing the climate crisis, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters on Tuesday. “Don’t be …