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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...)

Hard to detect, China bird flu virus may be more widespread

By Dominique Patton

BEIJING (Reuters) – Bird flu infection rates on Chinese poultry farm

BEIJING (Reuters) – Bird flu infection (More…)

U.S. healthcare costs to escalate over next decade: government agency

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The cost of medical care in the United States is expected to grow at a faster clip (More…)

U.S. weather service says hit by first-ever data system outage

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. National Weather Service said on Tuesday it suffered its first-ever outage of its data system (More…)

Hong Kong police struggle to stop brokerage hacking spree

By Michelle Price

HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong police are struggling to deal with digital pump-and-dump schemes targeting brokerages (More…)

Trump administration sued over protection for vanishing bumble bee

By Laura Zuckerman

(Reuters) – An environmental group sued U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration on Tuesday for delaying a rule (More…)

Spanish lettuce shortage likely to continue into March, say farmers

By Emma Pinedo and Francisco Bonilla

LOS ALCAZARES, Spain (Reuters) – A shortage of iceberg lettuce is likely to continue (More…)

U.S. experts soften on DNA editing of human eggs, sperm, embryos

By Julie Steenhuysen

CHICAGO (Reuters) – Powerful gene editing tools may one day be used on human embryos, eggs and (More…)

‘Digital Geneva Convention’ needed to deter nation-state hacking: Microsoft president

By Dustin Volz

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Microsoft President Brad Smith on Tuesday pressed the world’s governments to form an (More…)

California lawmaker makes push for health warning labels on soda

By Chris Prentice

NEW YORK (Reuters) – A California state senator is taking another stab at introducing a law that (More…)

With eye on Obamacare, Price takes helm as U.S. health secretary

By Susan Cornwell

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Tom Price was sworn in as U.S. secretary of health on Friday, putting in (More…)