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By Adriana Barrera and Lizbeth Diaz MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico and the United States on Thursday agreed to ramp up the fight against fentanyl trafficking, as well as Mexico’s …

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Thursday said Donald Trump’s defamation trial over whether he raped a writer in the mid-1990s will begin as scheduled …

By Julia Harte and Sharon Bernstein (Reuters) -U.S. telehealth and in-person abortion providers scrambled on Thursday to keep medication abortion services available after a federal appeals court ruled that the …

By Karen Freifeld NEW YORK (Reuters) – Former U.S. President Donald Trump returned to New York to answer questions under oath on Thursday in a $250 million business fraud lawsuit …

By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday refused to halt a legal settlement that would erase more than $6 billion in debt owed by former students …

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The city of Minneapolis on Thursday settled two lawsuits brought by Black residents involving Derek Chauvin, the white former police officer convicted of murdering …

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The White House on Thursday asked federal agencies to revise workforce plans as it aims to “substantially increase” in-person work by government employees at headquarters …

By Andrew Chung and Brendan Pierson (Reuters) -U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said on Thursday the Justice Department will ask the Supreme Court to intervene to stop restrictions set by …

By Helen Coster (Reuters) -Opening statements are due on Monday in Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News over the network’s airing of false claims that the …

(Reuters) – Washington Commanders owner Dan Snyder has reached an agreement in principle to sell the National Football League (NFL) team to a group led by the co-owner of the …

LA PAZ (Reuters) – Bolivia’s government has called on the armed forces to tighten border controls to curb the smuggling of state-subsidized fuels, a move it believes will save state …

By Andrew Hay (Reuters) – More than 18,000 cows died after an explosion and fire at a family dairy farm in west Texas, marking the deadliest such barn blaze on …

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Thursday he had launched an effort to establish rules on artificial intelligence to address national security and education concerns, …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Biden administration is seeking to allow immigrants illegally brought to the United States as children greater access to health insurance through federal programs, the White House said …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Top U.S. Senate Republican Mitch McConnell said on Thursday that he will return to the Senate next week, more than a month after he was sidelined by …

SEOUL/TOKYO (Reuters) -North Korea fired a new model of long-range ballistic missile on Thursday, South Korea said, triggering a scare in northern Japan where residents were told to take cover, …

LONDON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden did not discuss the leak of intelligence documents with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak when the two men met in Northern Ireland this …

By Steve Holland, Amanda Ferguson BELFAST (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden urged Northern Irish political leaders to restore their power-sharing government with the promise that scores of major U.S. corporations …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate Labor committee will hold an April 20 confirmation hearing on U.S. Labor Secretary nominee Julie Su, panel chairman Senator Bernie Sanders said in a …

By Angelo Amante, Giuseppe Fonte and Gavin Jones ROME (Reuters) -Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni chose unity over getting her way when she realised that imposing her own candidates to …

By Bart Biesemans, Layli Foroudi and Ingrid Melander PARIS (Reuters) -Union activists barged into the Paris headquarters of luxury goods company LVMH on Thursday, saying the French government should shelve …

(Reuters) – U.S. actor Jamie Foxx is recovering following “a medical complication”, his daughter Corinne Foxx has said. The Oscar winner was hospitalised in Atlanta, where he was filming a …