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WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The U.S. Congress’ failure to reauthorize the main U.S. program aimed at reducing the spread of AIDS sends a message that Washington is “backing down” from its leadership on the issue, State Department Spokesperson Matthew Miller said on Monday. A deadline t…

JUCHITAN, Mexico, Mexico (Reuters) — Several hundred migrants in southern Mexico on Monday awaited buses north in a new government program meant to help manage the number of people arriving, as Mexico’s president said 10,000 people have been reaching the U.S. border daily. Thousands of migran…

(Reuters) — U.S. Federal Reserve officials say that monetary policy will need to stay restrictive for “some time” to bring inflation back down to the Fed’s 2% target, but their unity around that phrase masks an ongoing debate over another possible rate hike this year. “I rem…

(Reuters) — California Governor Gavin Newsom on Saturday vetoed a bill that would have paid unemployment benefits to striking workers, and had drawn strong support from labor unions and from his fellow Democrats in the state legislature. In rejecting the bill, Newsom noted that the state’s un…

NEW YORK (Reuters) — A Texas investment firm agreed on Friday to pay $2.51 million to settle a U.S. government lawsuit accusing it of fraudulently obtaining payments from a fund meant to compensate victims of Bernard Madoff’s massive Ponzi scheme. The U.S. Department of Justice said Fulcrum C…

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) — A church roof collapsed during Sunday mass in a northern Mexican city killing at least nine people and injuring 40, authorities said, as rescuers worked into the night, desperately looking for another 30 people believed to be trapped under the rubble. Working under floodligh…

(Reuters) — Donald Trump and his family business are set to stand trial in New York on Monday in a civil fraud case that could deal a major blow to the former U.S. president’s real estate empire. Trump, the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, is accused by Democratic New Yo…

(Reuters) — California Governor Gavin Newsom said on Sunday he had picked Laphonza Butler to fill the Senate vacancy left by Dianne Feinstein, who died on Thursday aged 90. Butler is a former president of EMILY’s List, an organization that works to elect to office Democratic female candidates…

(Reuters) — At least 10 Cuban migrants died and 17 others were seriously injured when a cargo truck ferrying them had an accident in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, Mexico’s migration institute said on Sunday. The accident took place along the Pacific coast stretch of the Pijijiapan-To…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. President Joe Biden on Sunday pressed congressional Republicans to back a bill to provide more aid to Ukraine, saying he was “sick and tired” of the political brinkmanship that nearly led to a government shutdown. Biden spoke after Congress passed a stopgap b…