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WASHINGTON (Reuters) — He came to bolster Israel’s fight against Hamas and to offer aid to Palestinians suffering under an Israeli siege, but by flying into Tel Aviv when he did, U.S. President Joe Biden inextricably linked himself to any fight to come. Biden’s eight-hour visit took pla…

(Reuters) — An Alaska state agency on Wednesday sued the Biden administration over its decision to cancel oil and gas leases in the state’s North Slope, one of the country’s largest reserves of pristine federal land. The lawsuit filed in federal court in Washington, D.C., challenges the U.S. …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. Representative Mariannette Miller-Meeks has received “credible death threats,” she said in a statement on Wednesday, after voting against Representative Jim Jordan for speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. Jordan, a hardline conservative, was formally…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The U.S. government has conveyed concerns to Venezuela’s president that it must lift bans for all opposition presidential candidates by the end of November in exchange for sanction relief, a U.S. senior official said Wednesday. Washington is providing what the official …

BENGALURU (Reuters) — The U.S. Federal Reserve will keep its key interest rate on hold on Nov. 1 and may wait longer than previously thought before cutting it, according to economists in a Reuters poll, as the central bank’s higher-for-longer message gains traction. While a slight majority st…

(Reuters) — Washington’s decision to send long-range ATACMS missiles to Ukraine was a grave mistake that will have serious consequences, Russia’s ambassador to the U.S. said on Wednesday, after Kyiv said it used the weapons for the first time. “The consequences of this step, which…

ON BOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) — U.S. President Joe Biden will pose “tough questions” in meetings with Israeli leaders during a Middle East trip that has been upended by a strike on a Gaza hospital on Tuesday in which hundreds of Palestinians were killed. Biden is flying to Israel to …

(Reuters) — Oil prices gained nearly $2 in early trade on Wednesday after industry data showed a bigger-than-expected draw in U.S. crude stocks amid worries about supply disruptions from the Middle East due to a deepening Israel-Hamas conflict. Brent crude futures jumped $1.62, or 1.8%, to $91.49 a…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The head of Britain’s Royal Navy joined Australia on Tuesday in questioning U.S. bureaucratic hurdles facing the three-country AUKUS project to supply Australia with nuclear-powered submarines. Admiral Sir Ben Key, Britain’s First Sea Lord, said U.S. regulations s…

(Reuters) — A Black man who had been exonerated after serving 16 years for an armed robbery conviction was fatally shot by a Georgia sheriff’s deputy during a traffic stop as he was driving to visit his mother in Florida. The officer pulled over Leonard Allan Cure, 53, on Monday morning along…