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(Reuters) – Double Olympic 800 metres champion Caster Semenya offered to show her private parts to athletics officials when she was 18 to prove she was female, the South African …

By Nate Raymond BOSTON -Massachusetts’ high court on Tuesday unanimously rejected Exxon Mobil Corp’s bid to dismiss a lawsuit by the state’s attorney general accusing the oil company of misleading …

(Reuters) – Patients who experience recurrence of COVID-19 symptoms after completing treatment with Pfizer’s drug Paxlovid should isolate again for five days, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention …

WASHINGTON – Former White House press secretary Jen Psaki, who left her job in Democratic President Joe Biden’s administration on May 13, will join MSNBC cable network and streaming services …

(Reuters) – Republican U.S. Senate candidate David McCormick has filed a lawsuit in a Pennsylvania court to compel counties to count undated mail-in ballots in his primary race against TV …

Arizona Sends Kids As Young As 10 To Gender And Sexuality Chatrooms Laurel Duggan on May 24, 2022 The Arizona Department of Education (ADOE) directs students to LGBT-themed chatrooms for …

By Sarah Mills LONDON – As Queen Elizabeth celebrates her 70th year on the throne, there are questions about whether the Commonwealth of Nations, which she was instrumental in creating …

MECKLER: Democrats Have Long Dreamed Of Turning Texas Blue. Will Their Vision Come Crumbling Down? Mark Meckler on May 24, 2022 Just as states like California have long been unwaveringly …

By Daren Butler, Jonathan Spicer and Maya Gebeily ISTANBUL – President Tayyip Erdogan’s pledge to launch military operations soon to expand safe zones already set up across Turkey’s southern borders …

By Trevor Hunnicutt and Kiyoshi Takenaka TOKYO -Japan scrambled jets after Russian and Chinese warplanes neared its airspace during a visit by U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday, with Tokyo …

By Michael Martina WASHINGTON – A joint strategic bomber exercise by Russia and China in East Asia on Tuesday shows the depth of the two countries’ alignment, a senior U.S. …

(Reuters) – China and Russia’s air forces conducted a joint aerial patrol on Tuesday over the Sea of Japan, East China Sea and the Western Pacific, China’s defence ministry said. …

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON – An app designed to help visually impaired or blind pedestrians use public transit will debut at a Washington subway station on Tuesday. Waymap aims to …

By Tim Kelly TOKYO – For Japan, U.S. President Joe Biden’s comment he would be willing to use force to defend Taiwan signalled no formal change in policy. But behind …

SYDNEY – Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese held his first meeting as leader with U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday, prompting Biden to jokingly stage a mock walk-out as the …

By Byron Kaye and Renju Jose SYDNEY -New Prime Minister Anthony Albanese rebuked China on Tuesday for imposing hefty tariffs on Australian exports two years ago, in remarks made while …

By Joanna Plucinska and Michael Kahn RZESZOW, Poland/PRAGUE – When Ukrainians started streaming across the border after Russia invaded their country on Feb. 24, residents in this Polish city — …

(Corrects grammar in lead paragraph, replacing “as” with “to”) (Reuters) -Veteran news anchor Greta Van Susteren will join Newsmax to host a weeknight show from Washington, D.C., the cable news …

By David Randall NEW YORK – Efforts by financial firms and others to bring workers back to Manhattan offices more than two years after the start of the coronavirus pandemic …

By Daniel Becerril and Lizbeth Diaz REYNOSA – Migrants across northern Mexico voiced frustration and desperation on Monday, after the U.S. government failed to lift a pandemic-era policy that has …

By Michael Martina and David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON – There is an old saying in politics that a gaffe is when a politician says what they really mean. And critics of …

By Tyler Clifford NEW YORK – New York City police on Monday released surveillance images of a suspect in the fatal shooting of a 48-year-old man in a subway car …

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON -The U.S. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) said it was issuing a national emergency declaration to waive hours-of-service requirements for commercial vehicle drivers transporting baby …

TOKYO – The crisis in Ukraine is a global issue, not a regional one, U.S. President Joe Biden said at a meeting of the Quad grouping of countries in Tokyo …