Miniature poodle Sage fetches top prize at Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show
By Eduardo Munoz NEW YORK (Reuters) - A miniature poodle named Sage was crowned "Best in Show" on Tuesday at the 148th annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, fetching the grand prize in the most prestigious competition among pure-bred canines in ...
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US Capitol riot's shadow looms over Maryland, West Virginia primaries
By Makini Brice and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than three years have passed since former President Donald Trump's supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, trying to overturn his election defeat, but the event will play a ...
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US State Dept moves $1 billion weapons aid for Israel to congressional review, official says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department has moved a $1 billion package of weapons aid for Israel into the congressional review process, two U.S. officials said on Tuesday. The latest weapons package includes tank rounds, mortars and armore...
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Wing of Trump's plane hit a corporate jet at West Palm Beach airport, source says
(Reuters) - The wing of former U.S. President Donald Trump's plane, a Boeing 757, hit a corporate jet while taxiing at West Palm Beach International Airport on Sunday, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Tuesday. The Trump campaign di...
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US says Boeing breached 2021 deferred prosecution 737 MAX agreement
(Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department said late on Tuesday that Boeing Co had breached its obligations in a 2021 agreement that shielded the planemaker from criminal prosecution over fatal 737 MAX crashes in 2018 and 2019. The Justice Department ...
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Biden would veto Israel assistance bill if it passes
(Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden would veto a bill on Israel security assistance in Congress if it passes, the White House said on Tuesday. (Reporting by Costas Pitas and Dan Whitcomb)
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Petrobras resists order to assess Indigenous impact of Amazon drilling
By Fabio Teixeira and Marta Nogueira RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazil's state-run oil firm Petrobras is resisting regulatory demands requiring it to assess the impact on Indigenous groups of drilling in an offshore basin near the mouth of the Amaz...
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Explainer-Canada wildfire season is heating up: Here's what to know
By Nia Williams (Reuters) - Firefighters in western Canada are battling the first major wildfires of 2024, which sparked into life after unseasonably warm temperatures and an ongoing drought left forests tinder-dry. Wildfire season in Canada typica...
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Investigators say cargo ship that hit Maryland bridge lost electric power several times before incident
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal investigators said on Tuesday the Dali cargo ship lost electrical power several times including the day before it crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge on March 26, killing six people. The National Transportation ...
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Asia's extreme April heat worsened by climate change, scientists say
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Extreme temperatures throughout Asia last month were made worse - and more likely - as a result of human-driven climate change, a team of international scientists said on Wednesday. Billions of people across the continent were...
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Wildfire forces evacuation of four suburbs of western Canada oil town
(Reuters) - People in four suburbs of the Canadian oil sands city of Fort McMurray in Alberta were ordered to evacuate on Tuesday due to an approaching wildfire, the local authority said. The huge fire has gradually been moving closer to the city a...
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US FDIC's Gruenberg to create office to address workplace conduct issues
By Douglas Gillison and Pete Schroeder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation plans to tell Congress he will establish a new, independent office devoted to professional conduct after an external review found co...
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US appeals court upholds biofuel blending mandates for 2020-2022
By Stephanie Kelly (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday upheld a rule from President Joe Biden's administration that set the amount of biofuels that oil refiners were required to blend into the nation's fuel mix from 2020 through 2022, rejec...
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Summer 2023 was the hottest in 2,000 years, study says
By Gloria Dickie LONDON (Reuters) - Last summer, as wildfires swept across the Mediterranean, roads buckled in Texas and heatwaves strained power grids in China, it was not just the warmest summer on record, but the hottest one in some 2,000 years,...
May 14, 2024
White House's Sullivan to travel to Saudi Arabia and Israel
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan plans to travel to Saudi Arabia and Israel this weekend, a U.S. official said on Tuesday as Israeli tanks pushed deeper into eastern Rafah, stoking fears of additional civil...
May 14, 2024
Pentagon leaker Jack Teixeira faces US military justice hearing
By Nate Raymond HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE, Massachusetts (Reuters) - Jack Teixeira, a member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard who pleaded guilty to leaking classified military documents on topics including the war in Ukraine, is slated to appea...
May 14, 2024
Maryland sets course for offshore wind energy expansion with new legislation
(Reuters) - Maryland Governor Wes Moore signed a bill aimed at reevaluating and potentially revising existing offshore wind project plans, setting the stage for the state's goal of achieving 8,500 megawatts of offshore wind energy capacity by 2031....
May 14, 2024
US states sue over EEOC's policy on transgender workers
By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) - A group of Republican-led U.S. states filed a lawsuit seeking to block the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission from enforcing broad legal protections for transgender workers. The 18 states filed the complaint...
May 14, 2024
Florida bus crash kills eight, leaves eight critically injured
(Reuters) -Eight people were killed and eight critically injured when a bus carrying laborers crashed in northern Florida on Tuesday, a Marion County Fire Rescue spokesperson said. The workers were headed to Cannon Farms in Dunnellon, a small farming ...
May 14, 2024
Jury selection to resume in US Senator Menendez's corruption trial
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jury selection is expected to resume on Tuesday in U.S. Senator Robert Menendez's corruption trial, over what federal prosecutors called a years-long bribery scheme to help foreign governments, disrupt crimi...
May 14, 2024
US airlines forecast record 2024 summer travel, up 6.3% over 2023
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A group representing major U.S. airlines forecast record summer travel with carriers expected to transport 271 million passengers, up 6.3%. Airlines for America said Tuesday that U.S. carriers plan to fly more than 26,000 dai...
May 14, 2024
Three men to plead guilty in the killing of Boston gangster James 'Whitey' Bulger
(Reuters) - Three men accused in the beating death of one of Boston's most notorious mobsters, James "Whitey" Bulger, have reached plea deals with federal prosecutors over their roles in the 2018 killing inside a federal prison, according to court ...
May 14, 2024
US House Speaker Johnson to join Republican parade at Trump hush money trial
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson will join former President Donald Trump at his hush money trial in Manhattan on Tuesday, a person familiar with the matter said. Johnson, the top Republican in Con...
May 14, 2024
Inaugural Africa clean cooking summit sees $2.2 billion pledged
By Simon Jessop LONDON (Reuters) - A push to provide clean cooking options for the more than 1 billion people in Africa who currently rely on fuels such as charcoal and wood has raised $2.2 billion in pledges from governments and the private sector...
May 14, 2024
As pollution kills, Africa needs billions for climate-ready stoves
By Bukola Adebayo LAGOS (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Despite her well-honed sales pitch, Aanu Ajayi is often met by scepticism when out selling energy-efficient stoves in the Nigerian city of Lagos - highlighting some of the hurdles Africa faces ...
May 14, 2024