By Daphne Psaledakis and Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has spoken with Brittney Griner’s wife, assuring her that securing the release of the American professional basketball player detained in Russia is a t…
Azovstal siege ends as hundreds of Ukrainian fighters surrender – Reuters witness
MARIUPOL, Ukraine (Reuters) – Dozens of Ukrainian fighters, some apparently unwounded, surrendered on Tuesday after weeks holed up in the bunkers and tunnels below Mariupol’s Azovstal steel works as the most devastating siege of Russia’s war in Ukraine…
U.S. FDA authorizes Pfizer’s COVID booster shot for young children
(Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has authorized the use of a booster shot of Pfizer and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine for children aged 5 to 11, the regulator said on Tuesday. The authorization makes everyone in the United States over th…
FBI opens hate crime investigation into Dallas hair salon shooting
By Maria Caspani (Reuters) -Dallas police arrested a suspect in connection with last week’s shooting at a Koreatown hair salon that wounded three women of Asian descent, and federal authorities have opened a hate crime investigation, officials said on …
Mariupol defenders surrender to Russia but their fate is uncertain
By Natalia Zinets MARIUPOL, Ukraine (Reuters) -More than 250 Ukrainian fighters surrendered to Russian forces at the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol after weeks of desperate resistance, bringing an end to the most devastating siege of Russia’s war in U…
Provoking EU, UK sets out new law to fix post-Brexit N.Ireland trade
By Kylie MacLellan and Elizabeth Piper LONDON (Reuters) – Britain set out steps on Tuesday to try to break the deadlock with the European Union on trade with Northern Ireland, lining up a new law that would effectively override parts of a Brexit deal a…
California church shooter was licensed armed security guard
By Sharon Bernstein and Brendan O’Brien SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) -The Las Vegas man accused of killing one person and wounding five others in a burst of gunfire at a Taiwanese-American church luncheon in California on Sunday was licensed to work as…
Bullard: U.S. growth likely to continue above trend amid strong consumption
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. economy is likely to continue growing at an above-trend pace for at least the next 18 months, and households are likely to continue spending as the influence of the pandemic fades, St. Louis Fed president James Bullard s…
I need a shot of tequila for my knee pain, pope jokes
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – His doctors probably don’t agree but Pope Francis thinks a shot of tequila just might help his painful knee. While his popemobile stopped in St. Peter’s Square at his last general audience, a group of Mexican seminarians shoute…
Biden to call out racist ‘terrorism’ behind Buffalo shooting
By Jeff Mason BUFFALO, N.Y. (Reuters) -President Joe Biden arrived in New York state on Tuesday to console families of victims of a white teenage gunman who targeted a Black community, as the racist violence that inspired his presidential run erupted a…