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Russia halted gas supplies via a major pipeline to Europe on Wednesday, intensifying an economic battle between Moscow and Brussels and raising the prospects of recession and energy rationing in some of the region's richest countries.

Life expectancy fell in the United States in 2021 for the second year in a row to its lowest level since 1996, driven by COVID-19 deaths, according to provisional government data published on Wednesday.

Abortion rights groups and medical providers in Indiana said they filed a lawsuit on Tuesday to stop the state's ban on the procedure from going into effect.

U.S. President Joe Biden condemned violent threats against FBI agents who searched predecessor Donald Trump's home as "sickening," as he called for more police funding and an assault weapons ban in Pennsylvania.

Texas on Tuesday reported the first death in a severely immunocompromised person who was diagnosed with monkeypox, according to state health department officials.

A sheriff in Barry County, Michigan, already under state investigation for alleged involvement in an illegal breach of a vote-counting machine, sought warrants in July to seize other machines in an effort to prove former President Donald Trump's claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election, documents reviewed by Reuters showed.

Celebratory fireworks lit up the Kabul sky on Tuesday night on the first anniversary of the withdrawal of U.S.

A Caribbean regional court has ruled that a Saint Kitts and Nevis prohibition on gay sex is unconstitutional because it violates the right to privacy, striking down one of a handful of bans on same-sex intercourse that still exist in the region.

Two days before a state law is due to come into effect banning guns in "the area commonly known as Times Square," the New York City Council held a hearing to decide exactly what that means.

Political appointees at the U.S. Justice department will be barred from attending campaign events or fundraisers, according to new guidance issued by U.S.

A UN committee on Tuesday condemned the overturning of the constitutional right to abortion in the United States, saying it was hitting racial and ethnic minorities hardest and asked Washington to take mitigation measures.

U.S. job openings increased in July and data for the prior month was revised sharply higher, pointing to persistently strong demand for labor that is giving the Federal Reserve cover to maintain its aggressive interest rate increases.

Hundreds of thousands of residents in Michigan were without electricity on Tuesday morning after powerful storms toppled trees and downed thousands of power lines in the state a day earlier, including one that electrocuted a 14-year-old girl.

The state of Mississippi on Tuesday was scrambling to bring a long-neglected water treatment plant in its capital city back on line a day after it broke down, leaving about 180,000 residents without potable running water, possibly for days.

The report said 32 accounts, with more than 10,000 followers each on Truth Social, were previously banned from Twitter.

The woman's daughter said the victim had "severe blistering of her mouth and throat and esophagus" after drinking the solution.

National Beach Day is observed on Aug. 30 to give adventure-seekers a chance to have fun in the sun.

Jackson, Mississippi, will go without reliable drinking water indefinitely, officials said on Monday, after pumps at the main water treatment plant failed, leading to the emergency distribution of bottled water and tanker trucks for 180,000 people.

Corning Inc announced plans on Tuesday to build a new optical cable manufacturing plant in Arizona as the U.S.

The 4-year-old boy and his 2-year-old brother died of smoke inhalation and heat-related burns.

Top New York City and California pension officials want payments processors Visa Inc, Mastercard Inc and American Express to create a new tool to track suspicious gun purchases.

The fishy vaccine baits will be distributed by airplane or helicopter in some areas.

The toddler was just the size of a 7-month-old baby when he died due to "complications from severe malnutrition and dehydration."

A series of rocket attacks on a gasfield in northern Iraq has sent the U.S.

France accused Moscow on Tuesday of using energy supply as "a weapon of war" as Russian gas giant Gazprom reduced deliveries to one of its main utilities and prepared to halt flows along a major pipeline to Germany.

"It was really scary. I didn't know what it was that suddenly grabbed me," the woman said.

A 47-year-old woman jumped in to save the boy who was caught in floodwaters.

Militants fired rockets at Baghdad's fortified Green Zone as clashes between Shi'ite Muslim groups spilled into a second day, Iraq's military said, and Iran closed its border with Iraq after the worst fighting in the Iraqi capital for years.

"The 17-year-old will never graduate. That 5-year-old will never graduate from kindergarten," the Fort Worth police chief said.