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NEW YORK (Reuters) — Venezuelan politicians, military officials and police were “bought and paid for” by a man on trial on charges of shipping tens of thousands of kilograms of cocaine into the United States, a U.S. prosecutor said on Monday. In an opening statement at accused trafficke…

(Reuters) — The U.S. health regulator on Monday approved SpringWorks Therapeutics’ drug for treating adult patients with desmoid tumors, making it the first approved treatment for this type of non-cancerous soft-tissue growth. Shares of the company were up about 18% after the bell. The compan…

OTTAWA (Reuters) — The potential threat posed by the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) means safeguards need to be built in to systems from the start rather than tacked on later, a top U.S. official said on Monday. “We’ve normalized a world where technology products come…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Idaho officials on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to temporarily halt a federal judge’s ruling that blocked the Republican-governed state from enforcing its near-total abortion ban in medical-emergency situations following a legal challenge by Democratic President …

CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) — Until recently, USC professor John Strauss was known mostly for his research on the economics of developing countries, with decades of fieldwork in Indonesia and China. That changed Nov. 9, when Strauss stopped before students staging a walkout and protest calling for a cease…

CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) — Lawmakers return to Washington this week with billions of dollars in funding for Israel, Ukraine and border security up in the air — and widespread skepticism on whether Congress will answer President Joe Biden’s pleas to take action on the daunting range of global crises. Th…

CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) — President Joe Biden said he hopes to extend the pause in the Israeli-Hamas war beyond the original four-day deal to facilitate more hostage releases, saying the safe return of 4-year-old American girl shows that the U.S.-brokered cease-fire is working. “This deal is deliverin…

WASHINGTON/RIYADH (Reuters) — A U.S. Navy warship responded to a distress call from a commercial tanker in the Gulf of Aden that had been seized by armed individuals and the vessel is now safe, U.S. officials said on Sunday. The tanker, which had been carrying a cargo of phosphoric acid, was identi…

(Reuters) — U.S. President Joe Biden will not attend a gathering of world leaders focused on climate change in Dubai this week, a U.S. official said on Sunday. Reuters reported last month that Biden was unlikely to be at the United Nations “Conference of the Parties” on climate, known a…

CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) — Safety advocates have spent years pushing for new technologies to address a sharp rise in deaths from truck crashes — up 48% in a decade. Now, after fatalities rose for the eighth straight year, federal transportation officials are moving ahead with new rules designed to make…