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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...)

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Islamic State militants developing own social media platform: Europol

A 3D printed logo of Twitter and an Islamic State flag are seen in this picture illustration taken February 18, 2016.

By Michael Holden

LONDON (Reuters) – Islamic State militants are developing their own social media platform to avoid security crackdowns (More…)

Turkish court rejects Wikipedia’s appeal over website’s blocking: Anadolu

Turkish court bans Wikipedia

ANKARA (Reuters) – A Turkish court on Friday rejected an appeal by the online encyclopedia Wikipedia against a government decision (More…)

Germany challenges Russia over alleged cyberattacks

Hans-Georg Maassen, Germany's head of the German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (Bundesamt fuer Verfassungsschutz) addresses a news conference in Berlin, Germany, in this file photo dated June 28, 2016. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch

By Andrea Shalal

BERLIN (Reuters) – The head of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency accused Russian rivals of gathering large amounts (More…)

Spam campaign targets Google users with malicious link

A security guard keeps watch as he walks past a logo of Google in Shanghai, China, April 21, 2016. REUTERS/Aly Song/File Photo

By Jim Finkle and Alastair Sharp

(Reuters) – Alphabet Inc <GOOGL.O> warned its users to beware of emails from known (More…)

Tennessee, Iowa close to banning abortions after 20 weeks

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By Tim Ghianni

NASHVILLE, Tenn (Reuters) – Two U.S. states drew closer on Wednesday to legislating tougher restrictions on abortion (More…)

Trump faces major test as vote looms on U.S. healthcare bill

A cyclist passes the the U.S. Capitol, on the day the House is expected to vote here to repeal Obamacare in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 4, 2017. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

By Richard Cowan and Yasmeen Abutaleb

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives was set on Thursday for a (More…)

Anti-abortion activists seek dismissal of California privacy case

Anti-abortion activist David Daleiden, waits outside Superior Court in San Francisco, California, U.S., May 3, 2017. REUTERS/Lisa Fernandez

By Lisa Fernandez

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Lawyers for two anti-abortion activists who secretly filmed a conference of abortion providers (More…)

Rain threatens U.S. Midwest as flooding force hundreds from homes

Long Creek Bridge on 86 highway, flooding Photo By Austin Metcalf

(Reuters) – Unrelenting rain will drench the already saturated U.S. Midwest on Thursday and Friday, forecasters said, after floods in (More…)

Fire in Georgia wildlife refuge could take months to fight: U.S. officials

Smoke is seen during sunset as the West Mims fire burns in the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, Georgia, U.S. in a photo released April 29, 2017. Fish and Wildlife Service/Mark Davis/Handout via REUTERS

(Reuters) – A wildfire that has burned more than 100,000 acres (40,469 hectares) at the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge in (More…)

NSA collected Americans’ phone records despite law change: report

An illustration picture shows the logo of the U.S. National Security Agency on the display of an iPhone in Berlin, June 7, 2013. REUTERS/Pawel Kopczynski

By Mark Hosenball

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. National Security Agency collected more than 151 million records of Americans’ phone (More…)