Sports and General News

By Jan Wolfe (Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department has opened an investigation into whether police in Phoenix unlawfully have used deadly force, retaliated against peaceful...

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of the Federal Aviation Administration has asked U.S. airports to assist in the government's effort to crack down on disruptive...

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The White House on Thursday confirmed it may require visitors from abroad to be vaccinated as part of its plans to eventually reopen...

(Reuters) -A van overloaded with 30 people, many of them believed to be illegal immigrants, crashed in southern Texas on Wednesday, killing 10 occupants and critically injuring...

(Reuters) -A Frontier Airlines passenger accused of groping two flight attendants and punching a third on a flight from Philadelphia to Miami was taped to his seat for the...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department is looking into the whereabouts of a $5,800 bottle of whisky given to former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo by the Japanese...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Florida resident has been charged in an alleged scheme to bribe Venezuelan officials to obtain $250 million in contracts and launder funds, U.S....

(Reuters) - Simone Biles on Wednesday thanked the Japanese gym she visited in secret to overcome a bout of "the twisties" that threatened to end her Olympic run in Tokyo before...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Rapper DaBaby was dropped from the line-up of two more music festivals on Tuesday despite a third apology for homophobic remarks he made last month The...

By Jan Wolfe (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Wednesday sanctioned two lawyers who brought a lawsuit alleging the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump and his...

By Brendan O'Brien (Reuters) -Missouri Governor Mike Parson said on Tuesday he has granted pardons to Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the St. Louis couple who drew international...

By Jonathan Allen and Nathan Layne NEW YORK (Reuters) -New York Governor Andrew Cuomo groped, kissed or made suggestive comments to 11 women in violation of the law, the state's...

(Reuters) -A Frontier Airlines passenger accused of groping two flight attendants and punching a third on a flight from Philadelphia to Miami was taped to his seat for the...

By Gabriella Borter (Reuters) - A New York State trooper said Governor Andrew Cuomo ran his hand from her belly to her hip as she held a door open for him. An executive assistant...

By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. judge on Tuesday temporarily halted an executive order by Texas Governor Greg Abbott that restricts the transport of migrants through the...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A police officer was killed and several other people were injured in an attack outside the Pentagon on Tuesday, forcing the building to go briefly into...

By Jonathan Landay and Simon Lewis WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Thousands more Afghans who may be targets of Taliban violence due to their U.S. affiliations will have the opportunity to...

(Reuters) - A funeral for rapper Biz Markie was held on Monday after the hip-hop personality known for his 1989 hit "Just a Friend" died in July. Fans gathered outside the...

By Sarah N. Lynch and Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors revealed on Monday they are in preliminary settlement talks with several men affiliated with the...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - American comedian Kathy Griffin said on Monday that she had been diagnosed with lung cancer although she has never been a smoker. Griffin, 60, said in...

By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An FBI agent faces potential disciplinary measures after an investigation by the Justice Department's internal watchdog revealed he...

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. judge overseeing Ghislaine Maxwell's criminal case on Friday admonished lawyers not to make out-of-court statements that could...

By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) - More than 100 motorists stranded in an overnight mudslide in Colorado were ushered to safety from a mountain canyon where heavy rains unleashed...

By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors have offered a plea bargain to a defendant facing felony charges related to the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot who worked at...

(Reuters) - More than 60 million Americans across the Pacific Northwest and the U.S. Southeast were under a heat advisory on Friday, facing temperatures well into the 100s and...

(This July 28 story corrects to show plant is largest in the United States, not Western hemisphere, in paragraph 7) By Daniel Trotta HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (Reuters) -...

By Brendan O'Brien and Joseph Ax (Reuters) -Former Roman Catholic Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has been charged with molesting a 16-year-old boy during a 1974 wedding reception,...

By Steve Holland and Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. first lady Jill Biden underwent a "successful" medical procedure on Thursday to remove debris lodged in her left foot...

(Reuters) -Two tornadoes touched down in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, on Thursday, collapsing the roof of a car dealership and injuring several people, a county spokesman said. One...

By Shubham Kalia and Yereth Rosen ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) -The most powerful U.S. earthquake in half a century left Alaska mostly unscathed, thanks to the remote location and...

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Thursday found Cuba Gooding Jr liable in a civil lawsuit by a woman who accused the Oscar-winning actor of raping her...

By Liz Hampton (Reuters) -Two people were killed and several others injured following a leak of acetic acid at a LyondellBasell chemical plant in La Porte, Texas, on Tuesday...

By Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden on Tuesday warned that if the United States ended up in a "real shooting war" with a "major power" it could be the result...

By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Television and film actor Bob Odenkirk was taken to a Los Angeles-area hospital on Tuesday after collapsing on the set of his AMC cable...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican Texas state legislator Jake Ellzey was projected to beat Susan Wright, the candidate backed by former President Donald Trump, and win a special...