US and World News

By Steve Holland and Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday urged the leaders of Egypt and Qatar to pressure Hamas militants to agree to a Gaza …

By Herbert Lash NEW YORK (Reuters) -Stocks on Wall Street rallied and the dollar rose on Friday, as bond prices fell, after another blowout U.S. jobs report suggested the Federal …

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer on Friday outlined a busy agenda for lawmakers returning to Washington, saying they can make progress “on a path forward …

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York City agreed to pay $17.5 million to settle a lawsuit by two Muslim-American women who said the police violated their rights …

(Reuters) – The U.S. CDC on Friday issued a health alert to inform clinicians, state health departments and the public of a case of avian influenza in a person who …

By Koh Gui Qing NEW YORK (Reuters) – Don Hankey, the billionaire businessman whose company Knight Specialty Insurance provided the $175 million bond that Donald Trump posted in his New …

By Katie Paul and Anna Tong NEW YORK (Reuters) – At its peak in the early 2000s, Photobucket was the world’s top image-hosting site. The media backbone for once-hot services …

By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Donald Trump’s subpoena to Comcast-owned NBCUniversal for material related to a recent documentary about [censored] star Stormy Daniels was blocked on Friday by the …

THE HAGUE (Reuters) – Colombia has asked the International Court of Justice to allow the country to intervene in South Africa’s case accusing Israel of genocide in the Gaza Strip, …

By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) – Tesla is facing a new proposed class action lawsuit accusing the electric carmaker of a slew of wage law violations against factory and warehouse workers …

By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday called for independent investigations into the deaths of all 196 aid workers killed in the Gaza Strip during …

By Mahmoud Issa JABALIA REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip (Reuters) – Mohammed Al Safi said his business making bedding and mattresses in the Gaza Strip provided a decent living and employed …

By James Mackenzie and Rami Amichay JERUSALEM (Reuters) – The Israeli military dismissed two officers and formally reprimanded senior commanders after an inquiry into the killing of seven aid workers …

HAVANA (Reuters) -Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said on Thursday his communist-run government has secured supply of key subsidized food rations as he moved to defuse tensions just two weeks after …

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Transportation Department on Friday said it reached an agreement with Baltimore County to revise an $8.26 million grant agreement to enable Tradepoint Atlantic …

By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Infighting among Republicans who control the U.S. House of Representatives, and a threat to oust Speaker Mike Johnson from his leadership role, have put …

By Riham Alkousaa BERLIN (Reuters) – Human rights lawyers said on Friday they had filed an urgent appeal against Germany’s government to stop exports of war weapons to Israel, citing …

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – One of the hostages seized by Hamas gunmen during their attack on Israeli communities around Gaza on Oct. 7 was probably killed by an Israeli helicopter gunship …

By Tom Balmforth and Pavel Polityuk KYIV (Reuters) -Fighting raged on Friday between Ukrainian and Russian forces near the town of Chasiv Yar, a Ukrainian stronghold in the east, but …

By James Mackenzie and Nidal al-Mughrabi JERUSALEM/CAIRO (Reuters) – Six months into the war in Gaza, the killing of a group of aid workers by an Israeli air strike summed …

By Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber and Cecile Mantovani GENEVA (Reuters) – The United Nations Human Rights Council on Friday adopted a resolution calling for Israel to be held accountable for possible war …

By James Mackenzie JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel said it approved the reopening of the Erez crossing into northern Gaza and the temporary use of Ashdod port in southern Israel, following U.S. …

By Jeff Mason and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden threatened on Thursday to condition support for Israel’s offensive in Gaza on it taking concrete steps to protect aid …

By Yimou Lee and Fabian Hamacher HUALIEN, Taiwan (Reuters) -A helicopter plucked to safety on Thursday six people stranded in a mining area after Taiwan’s worst earthquake in 25 years, …

(Reuters) -Iran reiterated its pledge to punish Israel on Friday at a funeral for seven officers killed in a suspected Israeli airstrike on the Iranian embassy compound in Syria this …