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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...)

Dozens killed, including children on a bus, in Yemen air strikes

ADEN (Reuters) – Saudi-led coalition air strikes on Thursday killed dozens of people, including children traveling on a bus, in (More…)

Brutal weather threatens California wildfire battle

By Dan Whitcomb

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Fierce winds, bone-dry weather, and high temperatures are expected on Thursday in northern (More…)

After disaster alert failures, U.S. moves toward national system

By Dan Whitcomb

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – In California last month, two young children and their great-grandmother died in a (More…)

Russia reels, denounces new U.S. sanctions as illegal, unfriendly

By Andrew Osborn

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia condemned a new round of U.S. sanctions as illegal on Thursday after news (More…)

New Mexico child abuse suspects accused of training children for shootings

By Andrew Hay

TAOS, N.M. (Reuters) – Five adults charged with abusing 11 children at a New Mexico compound, where (More…)

Hamas fires rockets, Israel bombs Gaza amid talk of truce

By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Eli Berlzon

GAZA/SDEROT, Israel (Reuters) – A Palestinian official said on Thursday armed factions in Gaza (More…)

Hamas says indirect Gaza truce talks with Israel ‘advanced’

By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Dan Williams

GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – U.N.- and Egyptian-mediated talks on a deal to tamp down tensions (More…)

Crews gain on California wildfire as milder temperatures prevail

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Crews battling the largest wildfire in California history took advantage of milder overnight temperatures to gain (More…)

Unlikely pair could usher ‘right to carry’ gun law case to U.S. Supreme Court

By Daniel Trotta

(Reuters) – George Young is a Vietnam War veteran who sued the state of Hawaii three times (More…)

Five charged with child abuse at New Mexico compound due in court; body of child found

TAOS, N.M. (Reuters) – Five people charged with felony child abuse were due to make their first court appearance on (More…)