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NEW YORK (Reuters) — New York City police were searching on Tuesday for three men suspected of killing one person and wounding five others in a shooting that took place after a brawl broke out between what police called “rival groups” on a subway train in the Bronx. The fighting began a…

NEW YORK (Reuters) — Democratic former congressman Tom Suozzi won a special U.S. House of Representatives election in New York on Tuesday, narrowing an already razor-thin Republican majority that has struggled to pass legislation. The seat became available after the House took the extraordinary ste…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday blasted comments about NATO by his likely 2024 election opponent, Donald Trump, calling the remarks “dangerous” and “un-American” and saying they raised the stakes for the U.S. Congress to approve new funding to support U…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was released from a military hospital on Tuesday and will attend a Ukraine-related virtual meeting the next day, the Pentagon said, as the Pentagon chief struggles in the wake of prostate cancer surgery. It was the second time this year Aus…

(Reuters) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the special counsel prosecuting Donald Trump on criminal charges of plotting to overturn his 2020 election loss to respond by Feb. 20 to the former president’s bid to freeze a judicial decision rejecting his immunity claim. The justices i…

(Reuters) — A federal judge on Monday prevented Ohio from implementing a new law that requires social media companies, including Meta Platform’s Instagram and ByteDance’s TikTok, to obtain parental consent before allowing children under 16 to use their platforms. Chief U.S. District Jud…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. President Joe Biden said on Monday the United States is pushing for a six-week pause in the fighting between Israel and Hamas in Gaza as a stepping stone toward a longer ceasefire. Biden and Jordan’s King Abdullah spoke after the two longtime allies held talks in t…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Donald Trump on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to put on hold a judicial decision rejecting his claim that he is immune from being prosecuted for trying to overturn his 2020 election loss, arguing that without such a shield “the presidency as we know it will cease …

(Reuters) — Oil and gas companies and environmental groups on Monday filed dueling legal challenges to the Biden administration’s five-year plan to offer drilling leases in the Gulf of Mexico. The petitions to a U.S. appeals court come four months after the Interior Department unveiled a cong…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Dozens of former officials from the past two Republican U.S. administrations on Monday urged Congress to reverse the Biden administration’s pause on approvals of liquefied natural gas exports, saying the shipments promote global stability. President Joe Biden, a Democra…