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By Steve Gorman (Reuters) -A wildfire threatening some of the world’s oldest giant sequoia trees in California’s Yosemite National Park expanded five-fold over the weekend as smoke prompted air quality alerts throughout the park and obscured views of i…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden said on Monday the United States is “awash in weapons of war” and that he is determined to ban assault weapons that are frequently used in mass shootings. “I’m determined to ban these weapons again,” Biden tol…

By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Abrupt changes to the federal funds rate could stress the economy and financial markets, with steady and well-communicated increases preferable given the uncertainty about how hard and fast rate hikes will hit…

(Corrects first paragraph of July 8 story to reflect Cheniere believes the pollution rule could “reduce shipments” of LNG instead of “shut” them, and changes fifth paragraph to replace the word “huge” with “significant” when referring to the financial …

By Satoshi Sugiyama and Andrea Shalal TOKYO/NARA (Reuters) -Mourners streamed into a temple in Tokyo to pay their respects to Japan’s slain former premier Shinzo Abe on Monday, as his assassination overshadowed an election win for the ruling party he h…

(Reuters) – Rescue workers pulled more bodies and some survivors from an apartment building destroyed by a missile strike that killed 24 people in eastern Ukraine, while a Russian bombardment killed at least three in the second largest city Kharkiv. nL…

By Roxanne Liu and Ryan Woo BEIJING (Reuters) – Multiple Chinese cities are adopting fresh COVID-19 curbs, from business halts to lockdowns, to rein in new infections, with the commercial hub of Shanghai bracing for another mass testing campaign after …

By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) -The death of Shinzo Abe, namesake of Japan’s “Abenomics” policy, makes any immediate challenge to his legacy highly unlikely but could eventually allow Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to phase out Abe’s government spending…

SAO PAULO (Reuters) – A local official from Brazil’s leftist opposition Workers’ Party (PT) was shot dead on Saturday by a federal prison guard shouting support for right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro, according to a state civil police report and a wit…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Donald Trump’s former close adviser Steve Bannon has agreed to testify to the U.S. congressional panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, according to media reports on Sunday, amid questions over the terms of …