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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...)

The digital drug: Internet addiction spawns U.S. treatment programs

By Gabriella Borter

CINCINNATI (Reuters) – When Danny Reagan was 13, he began exhibiting signs of what doctors usually associate (More…)

Arctic blasts sub-zero freeze towards U.S. upper Midwest, Northeast

(Reuters) – The U.S. Midwest and Northeast were braced for dangerous subzero temperatures this week, as the polar vortex was (More…)

‘AI’ to hit hardest in U.S. heartland and among less-skilled: study

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Midwestern states hit hardest by job automation in recent decades, places that were pivotal to U.S. (More…)

Congo records one-day record for confirmed Ebola cases

KINSHASA (Reuters) – Democratic Republic of Congo on Wednesday confirmed 14 new cases of Ebola virus in its eastern borderlands, (More…)

Iowa’s ‘fetal heartbeat’ abortion ban ruled unconstitutional

By Rich McKay

(Reuters) – Iowa’s “fetal heartbeat” law, the most restrictive abortion ban in the United States, was declared (More…)

Chinese scientist who gene-edited babies fired by university

SHENZHEN, China (Reuters) – A Chinese scientist who created what he said were the world’s first “gene-edited” babies evaded oversight (More…)

U.S. eclipse watchers howl at Blood Wolf Moon but bitter cold cancels other festivities

By Barbara Goldberg

(Reuters) – Skywatchers howled at the moon at the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles when the full (More…)

‘Life-and-death’ cold grips eastern, Midwest United States

By Rich McKay

(Reuters) – Winter winds brought extreme cold and ice-slicked roads to the Midwestern and Eastern United States (More…)

Trump sends support to anti-abortion activists at March for Life

By Katharine Jackson

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump spoke in a pre-recorded video to thousands of anti-abortion activists (More…)

Robots will be your colleagues not your replacement: Manpower

BERLIN (Reuters) – Fears that robots will eliminate your job are unfounded with a growing number of employers planning to (More…)