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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...)

Record-shattering cold reaches into Florida

By Ian Simpson

(Reuters) – Record-shattering arctic cold reached as far south as Florida on Monday with freeze warnings in (More…)

Deep freeze keeps grip on eastern United States; four die

By Brendan O’Brien

MILWAUKEE (Reuters) – A record-shattering Arctic freeze kept its grip on much of the United States east (More…)

Federal agents found fetuses in body broker’s warehouse

By John Shiffman and Brian Grow

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Federal agents discovered four preserved fetuses in the Detroit warehouse of (More…)

Christmas Travel: Winter Storm Warnings in Northeast brings White Christmas and slick travel

By Kami Klein

Christmas is the most traveled part of the year with an estimated 107.3 million travelers nationwide from (More…)

U.S. life expectancy fell in 2016 as opioid overdoses surged: CDC

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Life expectancy in the United States dipped in 2016 as the number of deaths due to (More…)

Suspected cholera cases in Yemen hit 1 million: Red Cross

DUBAI (Reuters) – The number of suspected cholera cases in Yemen has hit 1 million, the International Committee of the (More…)

Vicious winds to test crews battling California wildfire

By Dan Whitcomb

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Firefighters in California will be tested by vicious winds on Friday morning as (More…)

Hackers halt plant operations in watershed cyber attack

By Jim Finkle

(Reuters) – Hackers likely working for a nation-state recently invaded the safety system of a critical infrastructure (More…)

Federal Communications Commission repeals net neutrality rules

By David Shepardson

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Communications Commission voted along party lines on Thursday to repeal landmark (More…)

With no deal on children’s health plan, U.S. states scramble for Plan B

By Jilian Mincer and Yasmeen Abutaleb

NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – For Nancy Minoui of Portland, Oregon, and Crystal Lett of (More…)