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By Idrees Ali and Chen Lin SINGAPORE -The United States and China are expected to use Asia’s top security meeting this week to trade blows over everything from Taiwan’s sovereignty …

(Reuters) – The Democratic-led U.S. House of Representatives select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol has been working for almost a year, interviewing witnesses and amassing …

By Trevor Hunnicutt, Daina Beth Solomon and Matt Spetalnick LOS ANGELES -President Joe Biden announced on Wednesday a proposed new U.S. economic partnership with Latin America aimed at countering China’s …

By Gayatri Suroyo and Stefanno Sulaiman JAKARTA – Indonesia’s parliament is set to revisit a contentious Job Creation law to comply with a court order to fix procedural flaws during …

By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA – The water looks crystal blue, with no trace of sewage, the yellow sand is clean and the smell in the air is salty and pleasant, …

By Norma Galeana and Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES -The head of a Mexico-based evangelical megachurch that claims about 5 million followers worldwide was sentenced on Wednesday in a Los Angeles …

By Joe Brock SINGAPORE -Indonesian naval officers have asked for $375,000 to release a fuel tanker they detained last week, accusing it of anchoring illegally in Indonesian waters off Singapore, …

NEW YORK -Donald Trump and two of his adult children, Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump, have agreed to testify starting July 15 in a New York state civil investigation …

By Trevor Hunnicutt and Jarrett Renshaw Los Angeles – U.S President Joe Biden on Wednesday blamed the lack of any progress on gun safety on intimidation by the gun lobby, …

By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON -An 11-year-old survivor of last month’s mass shooting at a Texas elementary school told U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday how she desperately acted to save her own …

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK -U.S. prosecutors on Wednesday said the multiplatinum R&B singer R. Kelly deserves to spend more than 25 years in prison after being convicted of sex …

By David Shepardson and Karen Freifeld WASHINGTON -The U.S. Commerce Department on Wednesday suspended the export privileges of three U.S.-based firms for 180 days for what it said was the …

By Tim Reid and Joseph Ax (Reuters) – More than 600 conservative gun rights supporters, including several major Republican donors, are urging Congress to pass gun control measures in the …

By Lisa Richwine SANTA MONICA, Calif. – Comedian Bill Cosby denied a California woman’s claim that he sexually assaulted her at the Playboy Mansion in the mid-1970s in a recorded …

By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON -A California man armed with a handgun who planned to kill Brett Kavanaugh was charged with attempted murder on Wednesday after being arrested near the U.S. …

By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) – A group representing 600 Texas families and backed by the American Civil Liberties Union sued Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Wednesday to stop state officials …

By Amy Tennery NEW YORK – Former gymnast and whistleblower Rachael Denhollander said lawsuits filed on Wednesday alleging the FBI botched its investigation into former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar …

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON -A U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee on Wednesday held a hearing on soaring American traffic deaths and efforts to build safer roads, calling it an urgent …

LONDON (R<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-16″?>euters) – British retailer John Lewis Partnership announced the first three locations where it wants to build rental homes, part of its diversification plan to generate 40% …

By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Wednesday dismissed a proposed class-action lawsuit accusing Apple Inc of defrauding customers by selling iPhones and iPads whose processors proved vulnerable …

By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON – A tiny meteoroid struck the newly deployed James Webb Space Telescope in May, knocking one of its gold-plated mirrors out of alignment but not changing …

By Brendan O’Brien (Reuters) – More than 90 women filed lawsuits on Wednesday against the FBI, accusing former agents at the agency of botching the sex abuse investigation into onetime …

LOS ANGELES -President Joe Biden on Wednesday spoke by phone with Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido and expressed U.S. support for restarting negotiations between President Nicolas Maduro’s government and the …