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By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. job growth unexpectedly accelerated in July, lifting the level of employment above its pre-pandemic level and pouring cold water on fears the economy was in recession. The Labor Department’s closely watched…

By Jack Queen (Reuters) -U.S. conspiracy theorist Alex Jones must pay the parents of a 6-year-old boy killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre $45.2 million in punitive damages – on top of $4.1 million in compensatory damages already awarded – for falsel…

By Nelson Acosta (Reuters) – Cuban 8-year-old Kevin Kindelan, a hot-handed shortstop for a Central Havana junior league baseball team and teammate and first baseman Leoni Venego, 7, both dream of stardom. Kindelan says he wants to play for Cuba’s natio…

ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s far-right leader Giorgia Meloni said it would be a “great honour” if she were the first woman to lead the country, with her Brothers of Italy party topping the polls ahead of an election next month. The conservative alliance le…

BEIJING (Reuters) – Mars Wrigley, maker of the Snickers candy bar, apologised on Friday for a Snickers product launch which Chinese social media users said suggested that Taiwan was a country. Videos and pictures showing a Snickers website promoting a …

By Anirban Sen and Greg Roumeliotis (Reuters) – The banks that agreed to finance Elon Musk’s $44 billion acquisition of Twitter Inc have a financial incentive to help the world’s richest person walk away but would face long legal odds, according to peo…

By Yimou Lee and Sarah Wu TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan condemned its “evil neighbour” on Friday after China fired multiple missiles into its surrounding waters, as many as four of which flew over the island’s capital Taipei in an unprecedented escalation …

(Reuters) – Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on Thursday suspended an elected state attorney without pay, accusing him of neglecting his duties and incompetence for saying he would not prosecute anyone who sought or provided abortions. DeSantis, a Republi…

By Jack Queen (Reuters) – Here are seven moments that could shape a jury’s deliberations on Thursday in a trial to decide how much U.S. conspiracy theorist Alex Jones must pay parents of a slain child for falsely calling the 2012 Sandy Hook mass shooti…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden met Thursday with labor leaders and CEOs from General Motors, Carrier, Kaiser Permanente and other companies to press Congress to pass the drug, climate and tax bill recently introduced by Democrats. “Pass…