Today: May 06, 2024
Today: May 06, 2024

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Second juror in New Hampshire youth center abuse trial explains verdict, says state misinterpreted

A second juror who awarded a New Hampshire man $38 million in a landmark lawsuit over abuse at the state's youth detention center has contacted attorneys with concerns about the outcome

Brazil ex-president Bolsonaro hospitalized again with skin infection

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Sunday he had to be hospitalized again in the northern city of Manaus due to a skin infection caused by a bacteria, adding there

UN accuses Israel of denying Gaza aid access as famine takes hold

By Michelle Nichols NEW YORK (Reuters) -A top U.N. official on Sunday accused Israel of continuing to deny the United Nations humanitarian access in the Gaza Strip, where the U.N. food chief warned a

Thousands protest against Hungary's Orban in ruling party stronghold

By Boldizsar Gyori DEBRECEN, Hungary (Reuters) - Thousands of Hungarians protested against nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban at a rally on Sunday weeks ahead of European Parliament and local

Los Angeles police make no arrests clearing USC pro-Palestinian encampment

By Rich McKay (Reuters) -Los Angeles police made no arrests on Sunday while clearing a pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of Southern California, following arrests and turmoil at

Denial and uncertainty are looming over a Biden-Trump rematch 6 months out from Election Day

It's six months before Election Day, and Joe Biden and Donald Trump are locked in a presidential rematch

China's president arrives in Europe to reinvigorate ties at a time of global tensions

Chinese President Xi Jinping is kicking off a three-country trip to Europe with the continent divided over how to deal with Beijing’s growing power and the U.S.-China rivalry

Hamas armed wing says responsible for Israel-Gaza border crossing attack

By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) - The armed wing of Palestinian Islamist group Hamas claimed responsibility on Sunday for an attack on the Kerem Shalom crossing between Israel and Gaza, which

South Africa inquiry blames authorities for neglect leading to deadly fire

By Tim Cocks JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - An inquiry into a fire that killed 77 people in Johannesburg last year blamed neglect by authorities for allowing a building to become a den for guns, murder,

Methodists end anti-gay bans, closing 50 years of battles over sexuality for mainline Protestants

When the United Methodist Church removed anti-gay language from its official rules last week, it marked the end of a half-century of debates over LGBTQ inclusion in America's mainline Protestant denominations

A milestone reached in mainline Protestant churches' decades-old disputes over LGBTQ inclusion

The fight to allow same-sex marriage and gay clergy has defined much of the last half-century for major mainline Protestant denominations in the U.S. Within these theologically moderate-to-progressive Protestant groups, the decades of wrestling over whether to reaffirm or overturn longstanding anti-LGBTQ+ church policies sowed deep divisions

Hush money, catch and kill and more: A guide to unique terms used at Trump’s New York criminal trial

Donald Trump’s New York criminal trial is full of terms you don’t typically hear in a courtroom

What a judge's gag order on Trump means in his hush money case

Virtually every day of his hush money criminal trial, Donald Trump talks about how he can’t talk about it

Panamanians vote in crowded field of presidential contenders

By Valentine Hilaire and Elida Moreno PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - Panamanians will head to the polls in Sunday's general election to elect one of eight contenders to be the nation's next president and

Putin attends Easter service led by head of Russia's Orthodox Church

(Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin and scores of other Moscow worshippers attended an Easter service on Sunday, led by the head of Russia's Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, a staunch supporter of

North Korea's UN ambassador says new sanctions monitoring groups will fail

SEOUL (Reuters) -Efforts led by the U.S. and other Western countries to form new groups to monitor sanctions on North Korea will fail, the country's U.N. envoy said on Sunday, according to state media

Fake videos of Modi aides trigger political showdown in India election

By Munsif Vengattil, Saurabh Sharma and Rishika Sadam BENGALURU/LUCKNOW (Reuters) - Manipulated videos are taking centre stage as campaigning heats up in India's election, with fake clips involving

Netanyahu's Cabinet votes to close Al Jazeera offices in Israel after rising tensions

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his government has voted unanimously to shutter the offices of the Qatar-owned broadcaster Al Jazeera in Israel

On Orthodox Easter, Zelenskiy calls on Ukrainians to unite in prayer

By Pavel Polityuk and Lidia Kelly KYIV (Reuters) - President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called on his fellow Ukrainians on Orthodox Easter on Sunday to unite in prayer for each other and the soldiers on the

Gaza ceasefire talks continue in Cairo, Israel pounds the Palestinian enclave

By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) - Hamas leaders held a second day of truce talks with Egyptian and Qatari mediators on Sunday, with no apparent progress reported as the Islamist group maintained

Ex-US Capitol cop, Jan. 6 rioter's runs for Congress illustrate a divided America

By Richard Cowan ELLICOTT CITY, Maryland (Reuters) - A former U.S.

Israeli cabinet moves to close Al Jazeera's local operations

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet voted unanimously on Sunday to close Qatari television network Al Jazeera's operations in Israel, according to a government statement,

Many Florida women can't get abortions past 6 weeks. Where else can they go?

Since Florida enacted a six-week abortion ban, clinics in several other Southern and mid-Atlantic states have sprung into action

As Putin begins another 6-year term, he is entering a new era of extraordinary power in Russia

Just a few months short of a quarter-century as Russia’s leader, Vladimir Putin starts another six-year term as president holding extraordinary power

Panamanians vote in election dominated by former president who was banned from running

Panamanians head to the polls to vote in an election that has been consumed by unfolding drama surrounding the country’s ex-president, despite not even being on the ballot

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