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National
UK's greenhouse gas emissions fell 5.4% in 2023, government data shows
By Susanna Twidale LONDON (Reuters) -Britain's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions fell by 5.4% in 2023 partly due to lower gas us...
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In Iraq, water crisis leaves farmers clinging to sidr trees
By Mohammed Aty BASRA (Reuters) - Faced with a failing date palm business due to scarce resources, Iraqi farmer Ismail Ibrahi...
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Biden's campaign war chest exceeds Trump's before major fundraising event
By Stephanie Kelly and Moira Warburton NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden's campaign has pulled in more money ahea...
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Lawsuits over Baltimore bridge collapse likely, though limited, lawyers say
By Diana Novak Jones (Reuters) - The owner, operator and charterer of the container ship that struck Baltimore's Francis Scot...
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Biden administration cracks down on so-called junk insurance
By Jarrett Renshaw (Reuters) - The Biden administration on Thursday will finalize a rule aimed at cracking down on short-term...
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National Sports
76ers optimistic Joel Embiid could return in regular season
Philadelphia 76ers star Joel Embiid is inching closer to a return before the end of the regular season, coach Nick Nurse said...
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Tennis-Decision to retire is about more than just tennis, Collins says
(Reuters) - Danielle Collins again faced questions about her decision to retire this year after she powered into the Miami Op...
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Blackhawks ride rare win streak into game at Ottawa
The Chicago Blackhawks will shoot for their first three-game winning streak of the season when they visit the Ottawa Senators...
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MLB 2024 Preview: Dodgers pegged to win 46 more games than A's
As the 2024 major league season gets underway in earnest on Thursday, the Los Angeles Dodgers are already one game toward the...
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Baseball-Ohtani's LA mural celebrates larger-than-life ballplayer
By Jorge Garcia LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - 'Ohtani-mania' officially kicked off in downtown Los Angeles on Wednesday with the un...
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World
Kremlin says Russia is working with partners after report on payment delays for oil
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday that Russia was working with partners amid unprecedented ...
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Israeli soldiers play with Gaza women's underwear in online posts
By Estelle Shirbon and Pola Grzanka (Reuters) - Israeli soldiers have been posting photos and videos of themselves toying wit...
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Kyiv to tighten security after ballistic missile attacks
KYIV (Reuters) - Security measures in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv will be tightened after a spate of Russian ballistic missile...
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Delhi Chief Minister Kejriwal's custody extended until April 1 in graft case
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - An Indian court extended the custody of opposition leader and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal unti...
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Bulgaria's populists reject mandate to form government, set stage for snap vote
SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria's populist There Is Such a People (ITN) party declined on Thursday to try to form a new national g...
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Business
Who is Sam Bankman-Fried, the onetime crypto mogul facing decades in prison?
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) - A few years after graduating from college, Sam Bankman-Fried grew worried he was not taking...
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Morning Bid: Unrushed Fed sees out buoyant Q1, dollar revs up
A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan With Wall St set for its final trading day of a bumper fir...
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The risky economics of living without homeowners insurance
By Chris Taylor NEW YORK (Reuters) - Owning a home can feel like risky business, from coming up with the mortgage payment eve...
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Sam Bankman-Fried to be sentenced for multi-billion dollar FTX fraud
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sam Bankman-Fried, the former billionaire cryptocurrency wunderkind, is set to be sentenced...
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Events leading up to FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried's conviction
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sam Bankman-Fried is set to be sentenced on Thursday over his conviction on fraud charges s...
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Politics
Pennsylvania can discard undated mail-in ballots, US appeals court rules
By Nate Raymond (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday rejected a challenge to a Pennsylvania rule that allowed the st...
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Ex-Trump lawyer Eastman should be disbarred, California judge rules
By David Thomas (Reuters) - A California state judge on Wednesday said attorney John Eastman should be stripped of his law li...
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Former U.S. Senator, Joe Lieberman dies at 82, media reports
(Reuters) - Former U.S. senator and vice presidential nominee Joe Lieberman has died at the 82, according to media reports. L...
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Florida governor, Disney reach settlement in lawsuit over special district
(Reuters) -Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and Walt Disney have reached a settlement to end a high-profile state lawsuit over t...
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US court keeps Texas border security law on hold in win for Biden
By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) -A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday kept on hold a Republican-backed Texas law that would let sta...
Mar 27, 2024
Health
European regulators close in on Big Tobacco's new tea sticks
By Emma Rumney LONDON (Reuters) - European governments are weighing the introduction of tougher rules on cigarette makers' ne...
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U.S. FDA approves Akebia's anemia drug
(Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Akebia Therapeutics' drug to treat anemia caused by chronic kidney...
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UnitedHealth Group has paid over $3.3 billion to care providers hit by cyberattacks
(Reuters) - UnitedHealth Group said on Wednesday that it had advanced more than $3.3 billion so far to care providers impacte...
10h ago
J&J gets new opportunity to contest evidence linking talc to cancer
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson will get a new chance to contest the scientific evidence linking talc products to ...
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Moderna secures $750 million from Blackstone Life Sciences to develop flu shots
(Reuters) -Moderna said on Wednesday it has entered into an agreement with private equity firm Blackstone's life science inve...
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Science
A million solar eclipse enthusiasts expected at Niagara Falls
By Wa Lone and Nivedita Balu NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario (Reuters) - From vintage train rides costing almost $4,000 per person to ...
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Scientists chronicle the earliest stages of a supernova
By Ari Rabinovitch REHOVOT, Israel (Reuters) - About 20 million years ago, in a galaxy not so far away, a large star exploded...
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Twisted magnetic field observed around Milky Way's central black hole
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Astronomers on Wednesday announced that they have detected a strong and organized magne...
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Humans give more viruses to animals than they give us, study finds
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Some of the deadliest diseases to stalk humankind have come from pathogens that jumped ...
Mar 26, 2024
Send robots into space rather than people, says Britain's Astronomer Royal
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Astronomer Royal Martin Rees said sending people into space when robots could do the job just as...
Mar 26, 2024
Technology
Italy's Azimut to create fintech bank through spin-off, Ipo
MILAN (Reuters) - Italian asset manager Azimut Holding plans to spin-off part of its network of financial advisors and merge ...
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US requiring new AI safeguards for government use, transparency
By David Shepardson (Reuters) - The White House said Thursday it is requiring federal agencies using artificial intelligence ...
1h ago
Keysight agrees to buy Britain's Spirent for $1.5 billion
(Reuters) - U.S.-based Keysight Technologies will buy Spirent Communications in an all-cash deal, valuing the British telecom...
3h ago
Exclusive-China's WuXi AppTec shared US client's data with Beijing, US intelligence officials told senators
By Michael Martina, Michael Erman and Karen Freifeld (Reuters) - U.S. intelligence officials in late February told senators w...
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Take-Two Interactive to acquire Borderlands maker Gearbox Entertainment from Embracer
(Reuters) - Video game publisher Take-Two Interactive Software said late on Wednesday it has come to an agreement to acquire ...
6h ago
Entertainment
'The Batman,' a 2022 blockbuster, wasn't plagiarized, US judge rules
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - Warner Bros Entertainment didn't steal the plot for its 2022 blockbuster "The B...
15h ago
Spice Girl Mel B shares more in expanded memoir, aims to help abuse survivors
By Alicia Powell NEW YORK (Reuters) - Spice Girl Mel B is releasing an expanded version of her 2018 memoir, sharing more deta...
20h ago
Sean 'Diddy' Combs' lawyer says rapper subject to 'witch hunt'
By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A lawyer for music mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs said Tuesday the rapper was be...
Mar 27, 2024
'Civil War' movie set in near-future US poses questions about politics and journalism
By Hanna Rantala LONDON (Reuters) - Filmmaker Alex Garland wants "Civil War", a tense thriller about a group of jou...
Mar 26, 2024
Jane Goodall's 90th birthday wish? More time to get out the conservation message
By Alicia Powell NEW YORK (Reuters) - British primatologist-turned-conservationist Dr. Jane Goodall will mark her 90th birthd...
Mar 26, 2024