Brazil floods death toll rises to 90, dozens still stranded
By Amanda Perobelli and Leonardo Benansatto ELDORADO DO SUL, Brazil (Reuters) - Rescuers rushed to evacuate people stranded by devastating floods across the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul on Tuesday, with 90 reported dead and despera...
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Biden to condemn antisemitism, praise free speech at Holocaust remembrance
By Trevor Hunnicutt and James Oliphant WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When U.S. President Joe Biden arrives at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday to honor 6 million Jews killed eight decades ago, his message will be as much about the present as the past. Biden wi...
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Oklahoma tornadoes kill at least one person, injure five
(Reuters) - A swarm of tornadoes touched down overnight in Oklahoma, according to local media reports, killing at least one person and injuring at least five as they flattened homes and ripped down trees in the northeast corner of the state. As the...
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Payments in focus as prosecutors make their case in Trump hush money trial
By Jack Queen, Luc Cohen and Andy Sullivan NEW YORK (Reuters) - Prosecutors in Donald Trump's criminal trial are expected to call more witnesses on Tuesday as they build out their argument that he was responsible for illegally covering up a hush mo...
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As climate shifts, a leafhopper bug plagues Argentina's corn fields
By Maximilian Heath and Matias Baglietto CORDOBA PROVINCE, Argentina (Reuters) - Global warming has brought Argentina's corn farmers a dangerous new enemy: a yellow insect just four millimeters (0.16 inch) long that thrives in hotter temperatures a...
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US soldier arrested in Russia on theft charges, RIA reports
(Reuters) - A U.S. soldier who was detained in Russia on charges of criminal misconduct was arrested by a Vladivostok court on theft charges, Russia's RIA state news agency reported on Tuesday. Citing the court's press office, RIA said that the sol...
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Bank of America investment banker dies
By Saeed Azhar and Milana Vinn NEW YORK (Reuters) - An investment banker at Bank of America has died, the bank said on Monday. The person died of natural causes, according to an email from the New York Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, who conf...
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China's climate envoy to visit Washington this week, the State Department says
(Reuters) - The United States will host China's Special Envoy for Climate Change Liu Zhenmin in Washington on Wednesday and Thursday, the State Department said. The Biden administration had previously said that U.S. climate change diplomat John Pod...
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Zendaya in blue, sparkling J Lo arrive at garden-themed Met Gala
By Ben Kellerman NEW YORK (Reuters) - Zendaya posed wearing a blue gown adorned with clusters of grapes on the green and white carpeted entrance to the lavish annual Met Gala on Monday, which this year has a garden theme. Stars were told to dress i...
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US must support critical mineral projects in risky nations, White House adviser says
(Reuters) - The United States and its allies must encourage mining projects in countries where Western corporations are reticent to do business to guarantee a reliable and sustainable global supply of the critical minerals needed to combat climate ...
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US soldier detained in Russia, US official says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. soldier has been detained in Russia during recent private travel there, a U.S. official told Reuters on Monday. The soldier's arrest was first reported by NBC News, which said Russian authorities accused the service me...
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Exclusive-Ex-tabloid publisher David Pecker, witness at Trump trial, a 'swatting' target
By Alexandra Ulmer (Reuters) - Former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker, who testified at Donald Trump's criminal trial last month, was targeted in a fake emergency the same day he took the stand in New York, according to police records seen...
May 06, 2024
Israel's Eurovision contestant Eden Golan hopes to 'unite by music'
By Ilze Filks and Tom Little MALMO, Sweden (Reuters) - Eden Golan, Israel's contender in the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest, hopes to unite people through her music when she performs this week in Malmo, Sweden, she said in an interview. The 68th vers...
May 06, 2024
US FAA opens new probe into Boeing 787 inspections
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said on Monday it has opened a new investigation into the Boeing 787 Dreamliner after the planemaker told the regulator last month it may not have completed required in...
May 06, 2024
Conservative US judges boycott Columbia grads over campus Gaza protests
By Nate Raymond and Karen Sloan (Reuters) - A group of 13 conservative U.S. federal judges said on Monday that they would not hire law students or undergraduates from Columbia University in response to its handling of pro-Palestinian demonstrations...
May 06, 2024
Reuters wins Pulitzers for national reporting and breaking news photography
By Joseph Ax (Reuters) - Reuters won two Pulitzer Prizes on Monday, taking home the national reporting award for a series of investigations into Elon Musk's manufacturing empire and the breaking news photography award for searing images of the Isra...
May 06, 2024
Massachusetts top court to hear challenges to gig worker ballot measures
By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) - The top Massachusetts court on Monday is set to consider whether the state's voters will get to decide two ballot proposals in November that would redefine the relationship between app-based companies like Uber Te...
May 06, 2024
New York state sues group over abortion pill reversal claims
By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) - New York state's top prosecutor on Monday sued Heartbeat International, an anti-abortion group, and 11 crisis pregnancy centers, accusing them of misleading and potentially endangering women by claiming that they can ...
May 06, 2024
Pentagon sees no change in Russia's strategic nuclear force posture
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon has not seen a change to Russia's disposition of its strategic nuclear forces, it said on Monday, despite what it called "irresponsible rhetoric" from Moscow detailing plans for exercises involving the deploymen...
May 06, 2024
Chicago museum acquires new specimen of famed Archaeopteryx
By Will Dunham (Reuters) - An exquisitely preserved fossil of the earliest-known bird Archaeopteryx, a pigeon-sized specimen revealing new anatomical details of a creature whose 19th century discovery lent support to Charles Darwin's ideas about ev...
May 06, 2024
U.S. hospital network Steward files for bankruptcy, aims for new loan
By Dietrich Knauth NEW YORK (Reuters) - Steward Health, which operates 30 hospitals in nine U.S. states, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Texas on Monday, aiming to secure a new loan from its landlord Medical Properties Trust. The privately-owned...
May 06, 2024
Trump to return to New York courtroom for criminal hush money trial
By Jack Queen and Andy Sullivan NEW YORK (Reuters) - Donald Trump returns to a New York courtroom on Monday, where he will be forced to sit silently while others testify about his efforts during the 2016 presidential election to cover up news of an...
May 06, 2024
Columbia cancels university-wide commencement ceremony after protests
By Julia Harte NEW YORK (Reuters) -Columbia University on Monday canceled its main, university-wide commencement ceremony scheduled for May 15 in favor of smaller, school-based events, a decision that follows weeks of pro-Palestinian protests that roil...
May 06, 2024
Death toll from Brazil downpours climbs to 83
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Heavy rains battering Brazil's southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul have killed at least 83 people, authorities said on Monday, up from 78 reported a day earlier. Rio Grande do Sul's civil defense authority said 111 people ...
May 06, 2024
Magnitude 5.5 earthquake strikes Chukotka, Russia - EMSC
(Reuters) - A magnitude 5.5 earthquake struck Chukotka, Russia, on Monday, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said. The quake was at a depth of 10 km (6.21 miles), EMSC said. (Reporting by Disha Mishra in Bengaluru; Editing...
May 06, 2024