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By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday underscored his determination to address concerns about policing, prisons and massive economic...

By Nick Pfosi MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - The police chief in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, and the officer who fatally shot Daunte Wright, a 20-year old Black man who struggled with...

By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) - A federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that Ohio can enforce a 2017 law banning abortions when medical tests show that a fetus has Down syndrome....

By Phil Stewart, Idrees Ali and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden plans to withdraw the remaining 2,500 U.S. troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11, 2021, 20...

By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Police have arrested a longtime suspect and his father in connection with the murder of Kristin Smart, a 19-year-old college freshman who...

By Humeyra Pamuk and Andrew Osborn WASHINGTON/MOSCOW (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden called on Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday to reduce tensions stirred by a...

By Jonathan Allen and Brendan O'Brien MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) -Lawyers for Derek Chauvin on Tuesday began presenting their case in the former Minneapolis policeman's murder trial,...

By Jonathan Landay and Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China's push for global power is the leading threat to U.S. national security, while Russia's efforts to undermine...

(Reuters) - Virginia's attorney general has directed his civil rights office to investigate a possible "pattern of misconduct" by police in the town of Windsor after officers drew...

By Robin Emmott and Sabine Siebold BRUSSELS (Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken offered the United States full support to Ukraine in its conflict with Russia on...

By Andrew Osborn and Alexander Marrow MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia on Tuesday called the United States an adversary and told U.S. warships to stay well away from Crimea "for their...

BERLIN (Reuters) - The United States will ramp up its forces in Germany amid the latest tensions with Russia over Ukraine, abandoning former President Donald Trump's plans to...

By Brad Brooks (Reuters) - Last summer, millions of ordinary Americans took to the streets to protest racism, police violence and the killing of George Floyd. In the year since,...

By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden's nominee to lead the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, Kristen Clarke, is poised to take on the role at a...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Capitol Police officer killed when a motorist rammed a car into two police officers and brandished a knife early this month will lie in honor in...

(Reuters) - Opponents of military rule in Myanmar cancelled traditional new year festivities on Tuesday and instead showed their anger with the country's generals through low-key...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Joshua Wong, one of Hong Kong’s most prominent democracy activists and among 47 people charged under a national security law, was sentenced to four months in...

KAOHSIUNG, Taiwan (Reuters) - Taiwan unveiled a new amphibious warfare ship on Tuesday that can be used to land troops and will bolster supply lines to vulnerable islands offshore...

By Nicholas Pfosi and Jonathan Allen BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. (Reuters) -Civil unrest gripped a Minneapolis suburb for a second night on Monday after the city's police chief said a...

By Dan Whitcomb (Reuters) -Police shot and killed a Knoxville, Tennessee, high school student on Monday after they said he opened fire on them in a campus bathroom, wounding an...

(Bloomberg) -- China just slapped a record antitrust fine on Alibaba (NYSE:BABA) Group Holding Ltd. The company thanked the government and investors breathed a sigh of...

By Jonathan Allen MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) -Prosecutors on Monday neared the end of their case in the murder trial of former Minneapolis policeman Derek Chauvin, calling George...

By Trevor Hunnicutt and Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden nominated three people for top U.S. Justice Department posts on Monday, including a person who...

By Jeff Mason and Carl O'Donnell WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The White House said on Monday it was prepared to send additional therapeutic treatments to the state of Michigan, which is...

(Reuters) -Three law enforcement officers in Georgia were shot and wounded after a traffic stop early on Monday led to a police chase that involved an exchange of gunfire and...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Biden administration has secured agreements for Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala to place more troops on their borders, a White House official told Reuters...

By Steve Holland and Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden intends to nominate two critics of former President Donald Trump's immigration policies to key...

By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran on Monday accused arch-foe Israel of sabotaging its key Natanz nuclear site and vowed revenge for an attack that appeared to be latest...

By Tom Hals (Reuters) - Prosecutors will rest their case this week against former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd, bolstered by police...

By Yereth Rosen ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Despite its sprawling geography and often-inhospitable climate, Alaska ranks among the top U.S. states for getting COVID-19 vaccine...

By Nicholas Pfosi and Jonathan Allen BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. (Reuters) -Protests erupted against police when an officer fatally shot a young Black man after stopping his vehicle...

By Gerhard Mey WINDSOR, England (Reuters) - Prince Harry, whose explosive interview alongside his wife Meghan plunged the royal family into its biggest crisis in decades, has...

(Reuters) - One of two police officers in Virginia accused of assaulting a U.S. Army lieutenant by pointing their guns and pepper spraying him during a traffic stop has been...

(Bloomberg) -- When the diplomatic emissaries of the Group of Seven nations met virtually late last month to prepare the ground for the leaders summit in June, one problem cropped...

By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI (Reuters) -An incident at Iran's Natanz nuclear facility on Sunday was caused by an act of "nuclear terrorism", the country's nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi...