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(Reuters) – Microsoft Corp co-founder Bill Gates is donating $20 billion to the charitable foundation run by him and his ex-wife Melinda French Gates to boost its annual distributions. The …

By Simon Lewis POKROVSK, Ukraine – In the last specialist maternity ward still under Ukrainian control in the eastern Donbas region, the windows are packed with sandbags. Rooms used for …

By Julio-Cesar Chavez and Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON – A surveillance video showing a long delay by Texas police and federal agents before they acted to stop the mass shooting at …

By Crispian Balmer and Giuseppe Fonte ROME -Italy’s 5-Star Movement will not take part in a parliamentary confidence vote on Thursday, party leader Giuseppe Conte said, in a move that …

By Dan Whitcomb (Reuters) -A Texas newspaper on Tuesday posted video of police and federal agents responding to the shooting at an Uvalde elementary school in May, footage at the …

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK – A former CIA software engineer was convicted on Wednesday of leaking classified information to WikiLeaks from the spy agency, in one of the biggest …

By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA – The United States called on Wednesday for accountability over the death of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, whose killing during an Israeli West Bank raid …

WASHINGTON – U.S. President Joe Biden said he would use force as a last resort to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon as he began a trip to the …

By Joey Roulette GREENBELT, Md. – The powerful James Webb Space Telescope’s inaugural batch of images has opened a new chapter of cosmic exploration, but astronomers say the observatory’s most …

By Tyler Clifford (Reuters) -Michael Cox, a former Boston police officer who was once beaten by colleagues who mistook him for a suspect, was named by Boston Mayor Michelle Wu …

By Randi Love NEW YORK – New York City police on Wednesday arrested a suspect in the stabbings of three homeless men, one of whom has died. Trevon Murphy, a …

By Lisandra Paraguassu and Gram Slattery BRASILIA – The shooting over the weekend of an official in Brazil’s leftist Workers’ Party (PT) by a supporter of right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro …

By Jeff Mason Cleveland -President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that the U.S. Justice Department would take appropriate action if the investigation of a police shooting of a Black man …

By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES – “Aquaman” actor Amber Heard lost a bid for a new trial in her defamation case with ex-husband Johnny Depp on Wednesday when a judge …

By Steven Grattan (Reuters) -The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) on Wednesday warned of the growing number of COVID-19 cases caused by the highly infectious BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron subvariants …

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON – John Bolton, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and former White House national security adviser, said on Tuesday that he had helped plan …

By Ece Toksabay and Michelle Nichols ISTANBUL/UNITED NATIONS – Turkey announced a deal with Ukraine, Russia and the United Nations on Wednesday aimed at resuming Ukrainian grain exports blocked by …

By Uditha Jayasinghe, Devjyot Ghoshal and Waruna Cudah Nimal Karunatilake COLOMBO -Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled to the Maldives on Wednesday, driven out after an economic collapse unleashed a …

By Karen Freifeld NEW YORK – Former President Donald Trump is expected to testify in the New York attorney general’s civil investigation into his business practices next week, not on …

By Ahmed Aboulenein WASHINGTON – The Biden administration said on Wednesday that refusing to fill prescriptions for drugs that could be used to terminate a pregnancy could violate federal law, …

By Katharine Jackson WASHINGTON -U.S. House Democratic Caucus chair Hakeem Jeffries said on Wednesday “significant progress” had been made on a proposed bill to boost the U.S. semiconductor industry and …

Mexico Pledges $1.5 Billion To U.S. For Border Security Amid Migrant, Drug Surge Jennie Taer on July 13, 2022 Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador pledged $1.5 billion for U.S. …

Former Democrat Rep Files For Bankruptcy After Drowning In Legal Fees From Failed Lawsuit Over Nude Photos Gabe Kaminsky on July 13, 2022 A former Democratic California congresswoman who resigned …

‘Out Of Control’: Here’s How How California Pumped Hundreds Of Millions Into The ‘Diversity’ Industrial Complex Gabe Kaminsky on July 13, 2022 California spent roughly $500 million on diversity, equity …