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By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Biden administration said concerns of Republican lawmakers that last year’s record drawdown of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve damaged the system’s delicate …

By Liz Hampton (Reuters) – Louisiana likely will receive permitting authority over wells designed to capture and store greenhouse gases by the end of the year, U.S. Congressman Garret Graves, …

By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) -GenBioPro Inc, maker of the only U.S. generic version of the abortion pill mifepristone, on Wednesday filed a lawsuit seeking to ensure that it can continue …

By Sarah N. Lynch and Michael Martina WASHINGTON (Reuters) – China and Iran are becoming increasingly brazen in their attempts to silence dissidents on American soil and influence U.S. policy, …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Danny Werfel urged Congress on Wednesday to approve a $1.8 billion annual budget increase as Republicans criticized the agency’s spending plans for $80 …

By James Pearson BELFAST (Reuters) – China is aiming for “global technological supremacy” in cyberspace and is using its cyber capabilities to conduct intelligence and surveillance campaigns, Britain’s cyber chief …

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The relationship between the human mind and body has been a subject that has challenged great thinkers for millennia, including the philosophers Aristotle and …

By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday gave a boost to Texas death row inmate Rodney Reed’s bid for DNA testing of crime-scene evidence that he …

By Gloria Dickie and Lisi Niesner NY-AALESUND, Norway (Reuters) – At the world’s northernmost year-round research station, scientists are racing to understand how the fastest-warming place on Earth is changing …

By Dawn Chmielewski and Lisa Richwine (Reuters) – Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ new oversight board has discovered another “11th hour agreement” that allows Walt Disney Co to set its own …

By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) – President Joe Biden had the power to require employees of federal contractors to receive COVID-19 vaccinations, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Wednesday, throwing out …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration announced $325 million in new military aid for Ukraine on Wednesday to help its military in its war against Russia, including additional ammunition …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Three Democrats in the Tennessee legislature who faced expulsion over their participation in gun control protests will visit the White House on Monday as U.S. President Joe Biden …

By Ismail Shakil and Steve Scherer OTTAWA (Reuters) -About 155,000 federal workers in Canada walked off the job on Wednesday after failing to reach a deal for higher wages and …

KYIV (Reuters) – Russian forces are stepping up their use of heavy artillery and air strikes in the devastated eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, the commander of Ukraine’s ground forces …

By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday grappled with a convicted stalker’s claim that thousands of unwanted Facebook messages he sent to a female musician …

(Reuters) -Lawyers for Tyre Nichols’ family filed a $550 million federal lawsuit against the city of Memphis on Wednesday, seeking damages in the beating death in January of the 29-year-old …

By Nafisa Eltahir and Khalid Abdelaziz KHARTOUM (Reuters) – The few hospitals still operating in Khartoum after Sudan’s sudden explosion into war have bodies lying unburied, bullets crashing through windows …

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel’s Foreign Minister Eli Cohen on Wednesday held out the prospect of a visit in the future to Saudi Arabia, and said at least one more Arab …

LONDON (Reuters) – Pope Francis has gifted fragments believed to be from the True Cross on which Jesus was crucified to form part of a new processional cross which will …

By Akhtar Soomro KARACHI (Reuters) – Women pedal sewing machines, deftly lining up seams and pleats as they assemble brightly coloured dresses for young girls at an orphanage in Pakistan, …

By Michael Georgy DUBAI (Reuters) – A battle that is hammering Khartoum and dragging Sudan to the brink of civil war pits the army chief and his regular forces against …

By Karen Freifeld (Reuters) -Former Trump Organization Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg was released from jail on Wednesday, according to New York City Department of Correction records. Weisselberg was sent …

By Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on a procurement network it accused of supporting Iran’s drone and military programs, targeting companies and suppliers in …

By Lisa Barrington DUBAI (Reuters) – Omanis no longer need state permission to marry a foreign national according to a royal decree issued this week, a rare example of social …