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By Randi Love (Reuters) – Police in Richmond, Virginia said on Wednesday they thwarted a planned Fourth of July mass shooting in the state capital, after receiving a tip that …

By Pavel Polityuk and Simon Lewis KYIV/KRAMATORSK, Ukraine – Ukraine has so far staved off any major Russian advance into the north of its Donetsk region, but pressure is intensifying …

By Brendan O’Brien and Steve Gorman HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. – The man charged with killing seven people at a Chicago-area July Fourth parade slipped past the safeguards of an Illinois …

By Katharine Jackson WASHINGTON – Senator Lindsey Graham will not comply with a subpoena issued by a grand jury in Georgia investigating former U.S. President Donald Trump’s alleged attempts to …

WASHINGTON – White House Communications Director Kate Bedingfield, a long-time adviser to President Joe Biden, plans to leave the administration later this summer, following former Press Secretary Jen Psaki, who …

By Ahmed Aboulenein and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON – Democrats in the U.S. Senate are advancing a deal that would allow the government’s Medicare health plan for older and disabled Americans …

WASHINGTON – U.S. President Joe Biden plans to honor Richard Trumka, the deceased former head of the largest U.S. labor organization, with the medal of freedom on Thursday, Biden said …

WASHINGTON – U.S. President Joe Biden told Brittney Griner’s wife in a call on Wednesday that he is working to secure the WNBA basketball star’s release from Russia as soon …

By Nandita Bose CLEVELAND -U.S. President Joe Biden touted plans to bolster pension plans for millions of Americans on a visit to Ohio to woo working class voters frustrated by …

Nine People Killed In ‘Mass Fentanyl Poisoning Event’ In Florida County Jennie Taer on July 6, 2022 A string of recent overdoses in Gadsden County, Florida, are believed to be …

(Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has put on hold its ban on sales of Juul Labs Inc’s e-cigarettes, with the health agency saying late on Tuesday that …

THE HAGUE -Police in five European countries have arrested 39 people in a major cross-border operation targeting an Iraqi-Kurdish gang which smuggled migrants across the Channel to Britain, the EU’s …

By Shawana Alleyne-Morris (Reuters) – More than half of U.S. women who received a uterus through a transplant went on to have successful pregnancies, a new study shows. Between 2016 …

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON -President Joe Biden plans to nominate Denver International Airport Chief Executive Phil Washington to head the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the White House said on Wednesday. …

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON – The U.S. government wants to simplify the student loan forgiveness process for defrauded students and make it easier for public servants to get the debt …

WASHINGTON – U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris spoke on Wednesday with the wife of U.S. basketball player Brittney Griner, who is detained in Russia, the White …

By Guglielmo Mangiapane and Roberto Mignucci CANAZEI, Italy -Italian rescue teams on Wednesday found two more victims of the glacier collapse in the Alps that is feared to have killed …

LONDON – Veteran guitarist Carlos Santana passed out on stage at a U.S. concert on Tuesday night after he was overcome by heat exhaustion and dehydration. The Grammy Award winner, …

LOS ANGELES – The latest season of Netflix Inc’s “Stranger Things” has pushed total viewership for the series to more than 1.15 billion hours, the streaming service said on Tuesday. …

(Corrects death toll) (Reuters) – The death toll in the shooting at an Independence Day parade in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park remained at seven on Wednesday, media reported, …

By William Schomberg LONDON -Britain’s new finance minister Nadhim Zahawi pledged on Wednesday to rebuild and grow the struggling economy and said he would look at all policy options, including …

By Dominique Vidalon and Michel Rose PARIS -French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne said on Wednesday her minority government wanted to reform pensions, nationalise the main utility EDF and shield citizens …

LONDON -A group of cabinet ministers are about to tell Prime Minister Boris Johnson to quit, including the man who has just been appointed as the new finance minister, media …

By Caroline Pailliez and Antony Paone PARIS -Railway workers in France went on strike on Wednesday, disrupting travel across the rail network days before the summer holidays begin and at …

By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis said he wants to give women more top-level positions in the Holy See and disclosed that for the first time he would …