By Sheila Dang (Reuters) – Twitter Inc is facing a skeptical audience as it showcases its advertising opportunities on Wednesday evening at an event in New York City, three ad agency executives told Reuters, as the social media company’s plans under bi…
Blinken tests positive for COVID, U.S. State Department says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday, the U.S. State Department said, adding that he was experiencing mild symptoms. The top U.S. diplomat, who is fully vaccinated and boosted, has not s…
Donations to U.S. abortion rights groups, clinics surge after Supreme Court leak
By Gabriella Borter (Reuters) – Donations have flooded into abortion clinics and abortion-rights advocacy groups since the leak of a U.S. Supreme Court draft ruling that showed the justices apparently poised to overturn the 1973 landmark Roe v. Wade de…
Families of detained Americans to Biden: Put patriotism over politics
By Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Families of more than a dozen Americans detained abroad pressed the administration of President Joe Biden on Wednesday to act more decisively to secure the release of their loved ones and called on the government…
Tearful Amber Heard testifies ex-husband Johnny Depp turned violent
By Lisa Richwine (Reuters) -“Aquaman” actor Amber Heard choked back tears on Wednesday as she testified that ex-husband Johnny Depp physically abused her, starting with slaps after she laughed at one of his tattoos and escalating to a “cavity search” o…
Explainer-Can pill prescriptions overcome U.S. state abortion bans?
By Brendan Pierson and Nate Raymond (Reuters) – If the U.S. Supreme Court reverses its landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision guaranteeing abortion rights nationwide, demand for abortion pills, which can be prescribed through online telemedicine visits, wi…
Gay marriage, other rights at risk after U.S. Supreme Court abortion move
By Andrew Chung (Reuters) – U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion that would end the recognition of a constitutional right to abortion could imperil other freedoms related to marriage, sexuality and family life including birth control…
French left agrees rare coalition deal to take on Macron
By Elizabeth Pineau, Michel Rose and Ingrid Melander PARIS (Reuters) – France’s Socialist Party and the hard-left La France Insoumise (LFI) agreed in principle on Wednesday to run together in June parliamentary elections and try to deprive newly re-ele…
COVID Americas cases up, N. American cases up for 5th week -PAHO
By Gabriel Araujo and Steven Grattan SAO PAULO (Reuters) -COVID-19 cases in the Americas increased by 12.7% last week from the prior week, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) said on Wednesday, as infections continued to rise in Central and Nor…
Resilience, anger as New Mexico wildfire burns ‘sacred land’
By Andrew Hay LAS VEGAS, N.M. (Reuters) – Daniel Encinias stands next to his camping trailer in a New Mexico evacuation area and says he will rebuild his home torched by the largest wildfire burning in the United States. He just wants the U.S. Forest S…