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BALTIMORE (Reuters) — Six workers were missing and presumed dead from a bridge that collapsed in Baltimore Harbor early on Tuesday after a massive cargo ship crippled by a power loss rammed into the structure, forcing the closure of one of the busiest ports on the U.S. Eastern Seaboard. With dive t…

View of the Dali cargo vessel which crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge causing it to collapse in Baltimore, Maryland, March 26, 2024. BALTIMORE (Reuters) — A massive cargo ship crippled by a loss of power smashed into a bridge while sailing out of Baltimore Harbor early on Tuesday, sending v…

(Reuters) — A Powerball drawing for $800 million, one of the largest jackpots in the history of that U.S. lottery game, found no winners on Monday night, ahead of an even larger prize up for grabs in the Mega Millions drawing on Tuesday. The Multi-State Lottery Association said no one bought the ti…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The U.S. is closely following reports of the arrest of Indian opposition figure Arvind Kejriwal and encourages a fair legal process, a State Department spokesperson said on Monday after Germany’s reaction to the case sparked a protest from India. Kejriwal, a national op…

(Reuters) — A New York judge’s decision on Monday to set an April 15 trial date for Donald Trump’s criminal hush-money case ups the odds the former president will face at least one verdict that could complicate his bid to retake the White House on Nov. 5. In another New York courtroom o…

TOKYO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will agree next month to tighter military cooperation, including talks on the biggest potential change to Washington’s East Asia command structure in decades, two sources said. Washington will cons…

NEW YORK (Reuters) — Donald Trump won a bid on Monday to pause his $454 million civil fraud judgment if he posts a smaller $175 million bond within 10 days, in a victory for the former U.S. president that blocks New York state authorities from taking steps to seize his assets. The decision by a mid…

(Reuters) — Chicago Federal Reserve Bank President Austan Goolsbee said on Monday that at the Federal Reserve’s policy meeting last week he penciled in three rate cuts for this year. At that meeting, the U.S. central bank kept its benchmark overnight lending rate in a target range of 5.25%-5.…

HOUSTON (Reuters) — More than 250,000 barrels per day of U.S. crude is set to arrive in India next month, the highest in more than a year, ship tracking data showed, amid tighter enforcement of sanctions on Russian crude. India, the world’s third-biggest oil importer and consumer, is looking …

A mountain lion can be seen in this image.  (Reuters) — A mountain lion killed a 21-year-old man and gravely wounded his younger brother on Saturday in the foothills of northern California’s Sierra Nevada, marking the first fatal cougar attack in the state in 20 years, authorities said. The t…