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FILE PHOTO: A prospective buyer examines an AR-15 at the "Ready Gunner" gun store In Provo, Utah, U.S. in Provo, Utah, U.S., June 21, 2016. REUTERS/George Frey/File Photo

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...)

Tyson Foods backs Israeli startup to grow meat in the lab

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Tyson Foods, the largest U.S. meat processor, has invested in an Israeli biotech company developing a way (More…)

Netanyahu accuses Palestinian leader of anti-Semitism, Holocaust denial

By Stephen Farrell

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Mahmoud Abbas of anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial on (More…)

Tick, mosquito-borne infections spiking in United States: CDC

By Gina Cherelus

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The number of Americans sickened each year by bites from infected mosquitoes, ticks (More…)

Canada wants U.S. cooperation in turning back asylum seekers

By Anna Mehler Paperny

TORONTO (Reuters) – Canada wants to change a bilateral agreement to allow it to turn back (More…)

Insurgents start leaving south Damascus pocket, release hostages

BEIRUT (Reuters) – Dozens of hostages held by militants in northern Syria reached army lines on Tuesday, launching a deal (More…)

UK has not yet identified Skripal poisoning suspects

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain has not identified the suspects who carried out the poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei (More…)

‘Teachers’ Spring’ forcing lawmakers to find money for schools

(Reuters) – It has been called the “Teachers’ Spring” in the United States, with educators from five states staging an (More…)

Pushing to bury Iran deal, Israel insists nobody wants war with Tehran

By Maayan Lubell and Dan Williams

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel said on Tuesday it does not seek war with Iran, (More…)

North and South Korea start to dismantle border speakers, fulfilling summit pledge

By Joori Roh

SEOUL (Reuters) – North and South Korea began dismantling loudspeakers that blared propaganda across their heavily fortified (More…)

Central American ‘caravan’ women and children enter U.S., defying Trump

By Delphine Schrank

SAN YSIDRO PORT OF ENTRY (Reuters) – Hopes rose on Tuesday among a caravan of migrants who (More…)