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House panel plans action on gun background check bill next week

By David Morgan

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee will take up legislation next week that (More...)

Syrian government ground forces attack Ghouta despite Russian truce plan

BEIRUT/GENEVA (Reuters) – Syrian government forces launched a ground assault on the edge of the rebel-held eastern Ghouta enclave on (More…)

White roses, hundreds of police as Florida shooting school reopens

By Bernie Woodall

PARKLAND, Fla. (Reuters) – Students returned to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Wednesday, bearing white roses (More…)

Puerto Rico asks Congress for help with delayed disaster relief loan

By Hilary Russ

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. Treasury has delayed a $4.7 billion post-hurricane loan to Puerto Rico (More…)

Papua New Guinea officials say whole villages flattened by deadly quake

By Tom Westbrook

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Whole villages were flattened and water sources spoiled by a powerful earthquake that killed (More…)

Russia violating duty to halt Syria’s use of chemical weapons: U.S.

By Stephanie Nebehay

GENEVA (Reuters) – Russia has violated its duty to guarantee the destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons and (More…)

Exclusive: North Korean leaders used Brazilian passports to apply for Western visas – sources

By Guy Faulconbridge

LONDON (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his late father Kim Jong Il used (More…)

Oklahoma regulator issues new regional protocol to curb earthquakes

By Liz Hampton

HOUSTON (Reuters) – Oklahoma’s oil and gas regulator on Tuesday released new requirements aimed at reducing the (More…)

Jerusalem’s Church of Holy Sepulchre to reopen after protest

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre, revered as the site of Jesus’s crucifixion and burial, will reopen (More…)

Dollar adds to gains as Fed’s Powell nods to ‘gradual’ rate hikes

By Saqib Iqbal Ahmed

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The dollar added to gains against a basket of major currencies on (More…)

Russian truce plan fails to halt bombing of Syria’s Ghouta

By Angus McDowall and Stephanie Nebehay

BEIRUT/GENEVA (Reuters) – A Russian call for a five-hour truce on Tuesday failed to (More…)