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Mary Lou Masters on March 16, 2023 TRENTON, NJ – New York and New Jersey won’t be joining an 18-state coalition against ‘woke’ banking and investing policies in the United …

Lorenzo Prieto on March 16, 2023 LOS ANGELES, CA – Five students were hospitalized on Wednesday afternoon after ingesting what California authorities believe to be marijuana gummies at a school …

Nino Cambria on March 16, 2023 It”s not a good look for the company building a massive wind energy farm off the coast of New Jersey, and it doesn’t help …

By Krishn Kaushik and Yukiko Toyoda NEW DELHI/TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will on Monday announce a new plan for an open and free Indo-Pacific in New …

(This March 13 story has been corrected to fix how much the oceans have warmed up by in paragraph 7) By Gloria Dickie (Reuters) – Heatwaves unfolding on the bottom …

By Daphne Psaledakis NIAMEY (Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced $150 million in new humanitarian aid for Africa’s Sahel region during a visit on Thursday to Niger, a …

By Josh Smith and Soo-hyang Choi SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea fired a suspected intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) into the sea between the Korean peninsula and Japan on Thursday, hours before …

LONDON (Reuters) – Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu has presented awards to the pilots of two Su-27 fighter planes that intercepted a U.S. drone near the airspace around Russia’s military …

By Eduardo Baptista BEIJING (Reuters) -Chinese President Xi Jinping will travel to Russia next week to hold talks with President Vladimir Putin, the two countries said on Friday, as Beijing …

(Reuters) -The U.S. State Department has approved the potential sale of Tomahawk cruise missiles to Australia in a deal valued at up to $895 million, the Pentagon said on Thursday. …

By Kiyoshi Takenaka and Ju-min Park TOKYO/SEOUL (Reuters) -Business leaders from Japan and South Korea pledged on Friday to work more closely on chips and technology, seeking to put behind …

By Elizabeth Pineau and Ingrid Melander PARIS (Reuters) -French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne used a special procedure to push an unpopular pensions bill through the National Assembly without a vote …

By Rich McKay (Reuters) – The gentle and uber-cute French bulldog has claimed the title of most popular dog in the United States, ending the Labrador retriever’s 31-year reign as …

By Mike Blake SAN CLEMENTE, California (Reuters) – As heavy rains soaked into already sodden ground in California, mudslides in the beachfront community of San Clemente forced evacuations of blufftop …

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Greater quantities of synthetic opioid fentanyl directly enter the United States and Canada than Mexico, Mexico’s president said on Thursday, pushing back against U.S. criticism of …

(Reuters) – At least 22 people, including three Buddhist monks, were shot dead at close range in central Myanmar last week, according to a doctor’s post-mortem report, in what opponents …

By Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The 2024 Republican presidential race could become a contest between isolationists and foreign policy hawks after Florida Governor Ron DeSantis sent his strongest signal …

TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) -A high-ranking envoy of President Joe Biden will travel to Panama and Honduras this month, the U.S. Department of State said on Thursday, days after Taiwan ally Honduras …

By Luis Jaime Acosta and Carlos Vargas BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia’s government presented a labor reform bill to Congress on Thursday that would reduce working hours and boost overtime pay, …

By Tyler Clifford and Brendan O’Brien (Reuters) -Three former employees of a mental hospital in Virginia were arrested and charged with second-degree murder on Thursday, a prosecutor said, over the …

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) needs more air traffic controllers to address rising passenger demand, the chair of a U.S. Senate panel overseeing aviation issues …

By Yew Lun Tian and Laurie Chen BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping is expected to soon visit Russia’s Vladimir Putin and, according to media, hold a virtual meeting …

By Xinghui Kok SINGAPORE (Reuters) – The current friction in the Indo Pacific is alarming and “trending in the wrong direction”, but the U.S. presence was not an effort to …

By Maayan Lubell JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Jerusalem woke on Thursday to the sight of a long red line painted by protesters along roads leading to Israel’s Supreme Court, hours after …