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U.S. President Donald Trump gestures during his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., February 5, 2019. REUTERS/Jim Young

Trump asks U.S. Congress to prohibit late-term abortion

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump called for curbs on late-term abortion in his State of the Union address (More...)

New genre of artificial intelligence programs take computer hacking to another level

By Joseph Menn

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The nightmare scenario for computer security – artificial intelligence programs that can learn (More…)

NASA names astronauts for first manned U.S. space launches since 2011

By Joey Roulette

(Reuters) – NASA on Friday named nine astronauts for the first manned space launches from U.S. soil (More…)

Invasion of big, voracious lizards threatens U.S. South: study

By Jon Herskovitz

AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – A group of South American lizards that can grow up to four feet (More…)

Sanctions-hit North Korea warns of natural disaster brought by heat wave

By Hyonhee Shin

SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea on Thursday called for an “all-out battle” against record temperatures that threaten (More…)

WHO says Ebola team arrives in Congo

By Tom Miles and Fiston Mahamba

GENEVA/GOMA (Reuters) – An international delegation has arrived in the town of Beni in (More…)

Pentagon creating software ‘do not buy’ list to keep out Russia, China

By Mike Stone

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Pentagon is working on a software “do not buy” list to block vendors (More…)

Stargazers seek a glimpse of ‘blood moon’ in longest lunar eclipse of 21st century

By Baz Ratner and Christopher Pike

NAIROBI/ABU DHABI (Reuters) – Star gazers across much of the world sought a glimpse (More…)

Geologists eye Hawaii volcano for signs eruption may be easing

(Reuters) – Geologists are keeping a close eye on the crater of Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano and a lava-spouting cone on (More…)

Scientists confirm Einstein’s supermassive black hole theory

BERLIN (Reuters) – A team of international scientists observing a star in the Milky Way have for the first time (More…)

Underground lake found on Mars, raising possibility of life

By Will Dunham

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Using a radar instrument on an orbiting spacecraft, scientists have spotted what they said (More…)