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SHANGHAI/BEIJING – A handful of COVID-19 infections have forced the northern Chinese port city of Tianjin to shut many entertainment venues and some kindergartens and tutoring agencies, the latest big …

By Ju-min Park and Satoshi Sugiyama TOKYO – The moment he laid eyes on Shinzo Abe’s ashen face, Shingo Nakaoka knew that any attempt to revive the former Japanese premier …

(Reuters) – Russian forces kept up their bombardment of cities across Ukraine, with intense shelling of Sumy in the north, cluster bombs targeting Mykolaiv and a missile strike in Odesa …

By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON -Jury selection began on Monday in the criminal trial of Steve Bannon, Donald Trump’s former aide, for defying a subpoena from the congressional committee probing …

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON – Advisers to the U.S. Homeland Security Department said there was no need for the Disinformation Governance Board created by President Joe Biden’s administration earlier this …

WASHINGTON – Two U.S. Senate Democrats urged President Joe Biden on Monday to declare a climate emergency and use the Defense Production Act to ramp up production of a wide …

By Cheney Orr and Brendan O’Brien GREENWOOD, Ind. -The gunman who killed three people in a shopping mall near Indianapolis would likely have taken many more lives if not for …

By Brian Ellsworth FORT LAUDERDALE – A prosecutor on Monday told jurors they should sentence to death the gunman who killed 17 people and wounded another 17 in a mass …

By Dan Whitcomb (Reuters) -New York’s governor on Monday ordered state agencies to step up surveillance off Long Island beaches following a string of five shark attacks in the last …

By Tom Balmforth and Max Hunder KYIV – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy sidelined his childhood friend as head of Ukraine’s security service and another close ally as top prosecutor in Kyiv’s …

By Julia Payne LONDON -Russia’s Gazprom has told customers in Europe it cannot guarantee gas supplies because of “extraordinary” circumstances, according to a letter seen by Reuters, upping the ante …

By Michael Martina and David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON – U.S. allies appear committed to following Washington’s lead banning forced labor goods from China’s Xinjiang region, a senior U.S. official told Reuters …

By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) – Texas state police will form an “internal committee” to review the response by state law enforcement to the May elementary school mass shooting in Uvalde, …

By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) – Swedish-born artist Claes Oldenburg, who turned everyday objects such as a clothespin, a baseball bat or a flashlight into giant sculptures of public art in …

By Julie Steenhuysen and Jennifer Rigby CHICAGO/LONDON – Sexual health clinics on the frontline of the monkeypox response are already financially stretched, leaving the United States and UK ill-equipped to …

By Julie Steenhuysen (Reuters) -Dr. Anthony Fauci, the chief medical adviser to the White House, confirmed he will retire by the end of President Joe Biden’s first term, but it …

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 Mike Stone WASHINGTON – The United States has successfully tested a Raytheon Technologies Corp air-breathing hypersonic weapon capable of speeds faster than five times the speed of sound, making …

WASHINGTON – White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Monday said a report on the Uvalde school shooting that left 21 dead is “devastating” and “unacceptable.” A Texas legislators’ probe …

By Randi Love (Reuters) – The U.S. Navy’s famed Blue Angels aerial demonstration team on Monday named the first female pilot in the squadron’s history, the organization said. Lieutenant Amanda …

By Luc Cohen NEW YORK -Two New York state residents were charged with illegally using funds from Chinese and Singaporean investors to donate $600,000 to then-President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign …

By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -A West Virginia judge on Monday blocked officials from enforcing a 19th-century ban on abortions after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade …

(Reuters) – Defense contractor Northrop Grumman Corp said on Monday it had won a contract to build and deploy a low-Earth orbit constellation of 14 satellites for the U.S. Space …