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The U.S. Justice Department will review the law-enforcement response to a gunman's killing of 19 pupils and two teachers on May 24 at a school in Uvalde, Texas, and make its findings public, U.S.

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The U.S. Interior Department said on Wednesday it will phase out single-use plastic products on public lands by 2032, including in national parks, in a move aimed at tackling a major source of U.S.

Power demand in Texas broke the June record on Monday and Tuesday and will keep rising this week until it tops the all-time high as economic growth boosts usage and hot weather causes homes and businesses to crank up their air conditioners.

More than 90 women filed lawsuits on Wednesday against the FBI, accusing former agents at the agency of botching the sex abuse investigation into onetime USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar, one of the law firms handling the case said.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and his U.S. counterpart Joe Biden have never seen eye-to-eye, but they have agreed to an awkward, hastily arranged meeting in Los Angeles on Thursday for their own different motives.

"It was a matter of seconds, and knew what we had seen was deliberate and my stomach was just in my throat at that point," the mother of one of the victims said in connection with the incident.

Michael Lowe claimed that he was wrongfully imprisoned in a New Mexico jail for 17 days after the carrier mistook him for a suspect in an airport burglary.

"I know it seems very outrageous to do it in a church in a private space," one activist said. "However, the people who are enforcing these laws have no qualms coming up to women in private spaces such as doctors' offices and medical clinics to harass them and call them murderers."

Colombia's leftist firebrand presidential candidate Gustavo Petro is too close in recent polls for the comfort of oil companies and miners who worry that his promised policies would imperil Colombia's economy and energy self-sufficiency, high-ranking industry figures and business associations said.

A U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee on Wednesday held a hearing on soaring American traffic deaths and efforts to build safer roads, calling it an urgent crisis.

A U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee on Wednesday is holding a hearing on soaring American traffic deaths and efforts to build safer roads.

"I feel so bad for the parents because they lost a child...But they lost one child. I lost 11 that day, all at one time," the grieving teacher who is still recovering at a hospital said.

Turkish efforts to ease a global food crisis by negotiating safe passage for grain stuck in Black Sea ports met resistance as Ukraine said Russia was imposing unreasonable conditions and the Kremlin said free shipment depended on an end to sanctions.

Spotify Technology SA on Wednesday said it expects to reach $100 billion revenue annually in the next 10 years and promised high-margin returns from its costly expansion into podcasts and audiobooks.

The top U.S. securities regulator on Wednesday unveiled a planned overhaul of Wall Street retail stock trading rules, aiming to boost competition for handling orders by commission-free brokerages to ensure mom-and-pop investors get the best price for trades.

U.S. regulators are going to transform how Wall Street handles retail stock trades after the meme stock mania last year raised questions about whether mom-and-pop investors were getting the best price.

Iran has begun further expanding its underground uranium enrichment and said on Wednesday it would switch off two of the U.N.

Belgium's King Philippe reaffirmed his deepest regrets on Wednesday for the exploitation, racism and acts of violence during his country's colonisation of the Democratic Republic of Congo, but again stopped short of formally apologising.

A 29-year-old man drove into a crowd of people in Berlin on Wednesday, killing a teacher and injuring a dozen people, some critically, as his car veered onto a pavement twice in a popular shopping district, officials said.

President Joe Biden kicks off a summit on Wednesday that was conceived as a platform to showcase U.S.

The Biden administration unveiled a new proposed U.S.

President Joe Biden kicks off a summit on Wednesday that was conceived as a platform to showcase U.S.

It was the moment when two brothers who had dominated Sri Lanka's politics for nearly 20 years finally went their separate ways.

U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken on Tuesday criticized efforts to suppress press freedom in several Latin American countries and said the United States seeks to increase media protection in the region with the most murders of journalists.

European stocks slipped on Wednesday and Wall Street futures were in the red as worries that central bank tightening will stifle global growth weighed on markets.

President Joe Biden's special envoy for talks with three tiny but strategically important Pacific island nations will lead a delegation to the Marshall Islands next week amid growing U.S.

South Korea's tougher stance towards the North under its new conservative president will be welcomed by Tokyo as Japan seeks to boost its military capabilities amid rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula and more broadly in the region, analysts say.

Lawmakers, shooting victims and advocates for stricter gun laws including actor Matthew McConaughey spoke out in Washington on Tuesday for legislation to reduce mass shootings amid signs of movement on an issue that has stymied Congress for years.