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Taiwan's de facto ambassador in Washington, Hsiao Bi-khim, on Tuesday hosted dozens of international lawmakers who back sanctions on China for aggression toward the island, a show of support for Taipei amid military pressure from Beijing.

The U.S. is "taking all appropriate actions to prevent new cases of paralysis," according to the CDC.

The guns had gone quiet after three days of fighting in the battle-scarred northeast Ukrainian town of Balakliia, but Mariya Tymofiyeva said it was only when she saw Ukrainian soldiers that it hit her that over six months of Russian occupation had ended.

Some U.S. railroads will start halting crop shipments on Thursday, a day ahead of a potential work stoppage, an agricultural association and sources at two grain cooperatives said on Tuesday, threatening exports and feed deliveries for livestock.

President Joe Biden's administration on Tuesday made contingency plans aiming to ensure deliveries of critical goods in the event of a shutdown of the U.S.

The unexpected rise in inflation reported on Tuesday was an unwelcome blow for President Joe Biden's Democrats, but a new Reuters/Ipsos poll shows Democratic voters just as enthusiastic as their Republican counterparts, pointing to a potentially close contest in November's elections.

Ukraine said on Tuesday it feared Russia would step up attacks on its energy system to turn the screws on Kyiv this winter, and that it was pleading with Western powers for air defence technology to avert this.

Here is a timeline of U.S. conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' falsehoods about the 2012 Sandy Hook mass shooting and the ensuing legal fallout as he faces trial in Connecticut to determine how much he must pay victims' families for claiming the shooting was a hoax.

An official murder charge has been filed against Public Administrator Robert Telles for the stabbing death of local investigative reporter Jeff German.

PETA is selling a Dr. Fauci Halloween costume that mocks the president's chief medical advisor.

A group of St Petersburg local politicians who called for President Vladimir Putin to be sacked over the war in Ukraine faces the likely dissolution of their district council following a judge's ruling on Tuesday, one of the deputies said.

U.S. President Joe Biden last month signed the $430 billion Inflation Reduction Act, authorizing the federal government to negotiate prices on some prescription drugs and cap costs for the government's Medicare health program.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has yet to publicly comment on a lightning rout of his forces in north-eastern Ukraine, but is under pressure from nationalists at home to regain the initiative.

A U.S. panel tasked with weighing the pros and cons of regular diabetes screening for children and adolescents found a lack of evidence for the testing, even as the proportion of U.S.

A congressional panel on Tuesday sought an urgent review by the U.S.

Disclosures from a former Twitter Inc executive turned whistleblower show that at least one Chinese agent is working at the company, Senator Chuck Grassley said in his opening remarks during a Senate hearing on Tuesday featuring testimony from the whistleblower.

The impacts of climate change are "heading into uncharted territories of destruction", U.N.

Moderate leader Ulf Kristersson's big bet that a deal with the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats would make him prime minister looks likely to pay off, but squabbling allies, policy divisions and a cost-of-living crisis could make his tenure turbulent.

The latest COVID booster shot, and flu shot can be administered at the same time.

King Charles has enjoyed a surge in support since he succeeded Queen Elizabeth as Britain's new monarch, a poll has shown, but some of those mourning his late mother warn he must follow her example and keep his views to himself.

By showing over the past week they have a path to beating Russian forces on the battlefield, Ukraine's troops may have won more military support from Western countries and undermined the urge of some Europeans to push Kyiv to make concessions.

The supervisor didn't ingest the pills, but overdosed due to the drug being an "inhalation hazard."

The outage, which lasted about an hour, took place Sunday morning.

A former manager for one of the U.S. military's largest private landlords whose disclosures helped unearth widespread fraud was sentenced to two years probation for helping the company secure millions in bonuses while covering up poor housing conditions at a Texas Air Force base.

"That baby, he had no gun in his hand. He was running for his life and he fell on the ground," his grandmother said.

Three medical journals recently launched independent investigations of possible data manipulation in heart studies led by Temple University researchers, Reuters has learned, adding new scrutiny to a misconduct inquiry by the university and the U.S.

U.S. conspiracy theorist Alex Jones faces trial this week in Connecticut to determine how much he must pay a group of families of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting that left 26 dead, including 20 children, for falsely claiming it was a hoax.

Opening statements will begin on Tuesday in a Connecticut courtroom to determine how much conspiracy theorist Alex Jones must pay families of 2012 Sandy Hook mass shooting victims for falsely claiming the massacre was a hoax, a month after a Texas jury awarded two parents $49.3 million in a similar case.

New Hampshire Republicans on Tuesday choose between a far-right candidate or a longtime state legislator to face incumbent Democratic U.S.