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By James Oliphant (Reuters) -San Francisco voters on Tuesday recalled the California city’s district attorney, Chesa Boudin, a progressive Democrat who instituted criminal justice reform, in a nationally watched test of frustrations over rising crime a…

By Andy Sullivan (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department will review the law-enforcement response to a gunman’s killing of 19 pupils and two teachers on May 24 at a school in Uvalde, Texas, and make its findings public, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Ga…

By Mrinalika Roy and Jennifer Rigby LONDON (Reuters) -There have been more than 1,000 monkeypox cases reported to the World Health Organization in the current outbreak outside the countries in Africa where it more commonly spreads. WHO Director-General…

By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A California man armed with a handgun who planned to kill Brett Kavanaugh was charged with attempted murder on Wednesday after being arrested near the U.S. Supreme Court justice’s Maryland home, voicing dismay a…

LONDON (Reuters) -British prosecutors said on Wednesday they had authorised charges to be brought against former Hollywood movie producer Harvey Weinstein on two counts of indecent assault against a woman 26 years ago. “Charges have been authorised aga…

By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Wednesday that inflation would not be a decade-long problem for the United States and that the Biden administration’s COVID-19 rescue spending contributed only “modestly…

By Katanga Johnson and John McCrank WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) -The top U.S. securities regulator on Wednesday unveiled potential rule changes to transform how Wall Street handles retail stock trades after the meme stock mania last year raised quest…

By Dawn Chmielewski and Supantha Mukherjee (Reuters) – Spotify Technology SA on Wednesday promised high-margin returns from its costly expansion into podcasts and audiobooks as the audio streaming company hosted its first investor day since going publi…

By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -An 11-year-old survivor of last month’s mass shooting at a Texas elementary school told U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday how she desperately acted to save her own life after the gunman shot a friend next to her, saying…

By Pavel Polityuk and Abdelaziz Boumzar KYIV/SLOVIANSK, Ukraine (Reuters) – Ukrainian troops holding out in the ruins of Sievierodonetsk came under renewed heavy assault on Wednesday from Russian forces who see the capture of the industrial city as key…