US and World News

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – An exiled Chinese businessman charged by U.S. prosecutors with leading a more than $1 billion fraud will remain in jail after a federal …

By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden announced plans to increase U.S. funding to help developing countries fight climate change and curb deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest during a …

By Jeff Mason and Julia Symmes Cobb WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden praised Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Thursday for his country’s treatment of refugees from Venezuela and …

By Luc Cohen (Reuters) -Mark Pomerantz, the former prosecutor who once led the Manhattan district attorney’s criminal inquiry into former U.S. President Donald Trump, on Thursday won a delay to …

By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) – Advocacy groups filed a lawsuit on Thursday seeking to strike down a new Tennessee law that bans doctors from providing gender-affirming medical treatment such as …

ROME (Reuters) – A U.S.-born princess was evicted on Thursday from a Roman villa featuring the only known fresco by Italian baroque artist Caravaggio, and denounced her ousting as a …

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -Donald Trump is free to skip a New York trial over accusations he raped a writer nearly 30 years ago, but jurors will for …

By Dave Sherwood HAVANA (Reuters) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met on Thursday with Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel and Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez in Havana, the latest in a …

By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The world could breach a new average temperature record in 2023 or 2024, fuelled by climate change and the anticipated return of the El …

By Tyler Clifford (Reuters) – Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill on Thursday ending a requirement that juries need to vote unanimously to recommend capital punishment before a judge …

By Andrew MacAskill and Alistair Smout LONDON (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will delay until at least Friday the publication of a report into claims that his deputy bullied …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Senate Judiciary Committee’s chairman called on U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts to testify at a May 2 hearing on Supreme ethics reform after earlier urging him …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy unveiled a bill this week that would pair $4.5 trillion in spending cuts with a $1.5 trillion increase in the …

By Ahmed Aboulenein and Michael Erman WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Use of the drug misoprostol on its own to terminate pregnancies is on the rise in the United States as providers …

(Reuters) – Contract drugmaker Emergent BioSolutions Inc said on Thursday it is aiming to price the over-the-counter (OTC) version of its opioid overdose reversal drug Narcan at around $50 per …

By Michael Martina WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. congressional war game simulating a Chinese invasion of Taiwan showed the need to arm the island “to the teeth,” the chair of …

By Gabriela Baczynska BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union lawmakers voted on Thursday to require member countries to host some of the refugees and migrants coming to the bloc at times …

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – An Indian court on Thursday acquitted 69 Hindus, including a former minister from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), of the murder of 11 Muslims during …

(This April 13 story has been corrected to remove reference to criminalising identifying as LGBTQ, a provision dropped in the draft stage, in paragraph 3) KAMPALA (Reuters) – When Frank …