WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday pardoned 11 people and commuted the sentences of five others who had been convicted of non-violent drug offenses, the White House said, the latest in a series of such actions. "Many of ...

By Jonathan Allen and Brendan O'Brien NEW YORK (Reuters) - Columbia University students agreed to take down "a significant number" of the dozens of tents set up on the school's main campus as part of a protest against Israel's incursion into ...

By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) - The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the country's largest business lobby, filed a lawsuit on Wednesday seeking to strike down a federal agency's near-total ban on employers requiring workers to sign agreements not to join ...

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's retail sales contracted for the second consecutive month in February, missing expectations, data showed on Wednesday, led by a drop in sales at gasoline stations and fuel vendors. Retail sales decreased 0.1% in ...

By Mike Scarcella (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate set up a likely court showdown over the scope of TikTok's free speech protections under the U.S. Constitution when it approved a bill on Tuesday to ban the social media platform from app stores unless ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany has charged six foreign nationals for allegedly plotting terrorist attacks on behalf of the Islamic State Province of Khorasan (ISIS-K), the federal prosecutor's office said on Wednesday. The suspects, identified as ...

PARIS (Reuters) - France's DGAC civil aviation authority said on Wednesday it had asked airlines to cancel flights at Paris Orly airport by 75% and at Paris Charles-De-Gaulle airport by 55% on April 25. The DGAC made the announcement although the ...

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's justice minister warned the country's main pro-Kurdish DEM party on Wednesday that it would face the risk of legal action, and even a closure case like its predecessor, if it did not distance itself from Kurdish ...

(Reuters) - The Biden administration on Wednesday announced new rules limiting the sugar and sodium content of meals served to millions of children at U.S. public schools. The standards unveiled by the U.S. Department of Agriculture are part of ...

By Waakhe Simon Wudu JUBA (Reuters) - South Sudanese authorities are holding up United Nations fuel tankers over a tax dispute, jeopardising the delivery of millions of dollars of aid during a humanitarian crisis, the U.N. mission there said. The ...