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(Reuters) — The United States on Friday announced terrorism and sanctions-evasion charges and seizures linked to a billion-dollar oil trafficking network that it says finances Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and other militant groups. The cases are in response to a serie…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday declined to block the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, the prestigious Army school, from considering race as a factor in admissions decisions while a legal battle over the practice proceeds in lower courts. The justices denied a request fr…

(Reuters) — A New Mexico man has pleaded guilty to helping a defeated Republican candidate carry out drive-by shootings at Democratic officials’ homes in 2022 and 2023 that marked a new level of U.S. political violence. Entering a guilty plea on Thursday, Demetrio Trujillo, 42, of Albuquerque…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The U.S. military launched airstrikes on Friday in Iraq and Syria against more than 85 targets linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) and the militias it backs, in retaliation for last weekend’s attack in Jordan that killed three U.S. troops. The strikes, whi…

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) — A second, more powerful atmospheric river storm was headed for Southern California this weekend, threatening to unleash potentially life-threatening floods and landslides, forecasters warned on Friday, even as much of the state was drying out from an earlier deluge. Graduall…

(Reuters) — Actor Carl Weathers, a former professional American football player who shot to stardom by playing the brash and charismatic boxer Apollo Creed in the “Rocky” movies, died on Thursday of undisclosed causes, his manager announced on Friday. He was 76. Though he had other prom…

(Reuters) — A Virginia doctor who prescribed more than 500,000 opioid doses in less than two years had his conviction and 40-year prison sentence thrown out by a federal appeals court on Friday, because the jury instructions misstated the law. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virg…

(Reuters) —Several fatalities were reported on Thursday after a small plane crashed into and demolished a mobile home in Clearwater, Florida, officials said. Images posted online by the Clearwater Fire & Rescue Department showed flames and smoke billowing from the destroyed home. “I can c…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The planned targets for U.S. strikes in Iraq and Syria in response to the killing of three U.S. soldiers by a drone in Jordan include “Iranian personnel and facilities”, CBS News reported on Thursday, citing American officials. The United States has assessed that t…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — A top U.S. Energy Department official will testify at Feb. 8 Senate Energy Committee hearing looking into President Joe Biden’s pause on new approvals for liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports, the Energy Department said on Thursday. Biden paused the approvals last week s…