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Colombia's potential presidential contender shot, suspect arrested

Colombian Senator Miguel Uribe, a potential presidential contender, was shot in Bogota on Saturday, according to the government and his party, as his wife said he was fighting for his life in hospital.

3 hours ago
Americas

Trump deploys National Guard over LA immigration protests

The US president took federal control of California's state military to push soldiers into the country's second-biggest city, where they could face off against demonstrators. It is a rare move that Governor Gavin Newsom said was "purposefully inflammatory." ...

3 hours ago
Americas

Trump threatens Musk with 'serious consequences' in spending bill row

US President Donald Trump threatened his former advisor Elon Musk with "serious consequences" Saturday if the tech billionaire seeks to punish Republicans who vote for a controversial spending bill. ...

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Biden rejects growing pressure to abandon his campaign

Biden dialed in to a call with worried members of his campaign team and told them he wasn't going anywhere, according to two sources familiar with the call. 

11 months ago
Americas

Dozens hurt as turbulence prompts flight diversion to Brazil

The plane, a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner with 325 people on board, was diverted in the early morning hours to the airport of Natal in northeast Brazil, where more than a dozen ambulances waited.

11 months ago
Americas

Biden says he 'nearly fell asleep' during debate after world travel

Biden has faced mounting questions about his 2024 reelection bid after last week's shaky debate performance, with one House of Representatives fellow Democrat on Tuesday publicly calling on him to withdraw from the race.

11 months ago
Americas

Venezuela's Maduro says talks to resume with US

"Next Wednesday, talks will restart with the US government so that they comply with the agreements signed in Qatar," Maduro said on his program aired every Monday on official TV station Venezolana de Television.

11 months ago
Americas

US Supreme Court rules Trump has broad immunity from prosecution

The justices, in a 6-3 ruling authored by Chief Justice John Roberts, threw out a lower court's decision that had rejected Trump's claim of immunity from federal criminal charges involving his efforts to undo his 2020 election loss to Joe Biden. 

11 months ago
Americas

Biden seeks to repair debate damage

Biden's appearance at a campaign rally in the battleground state of North Carolina came amid rumblings in his alarmed Democratic Party about replacing the 81-year-old as their nominee -- and shortly before the nation's most influential newspaper urged him to step aside.

11 months ago
Americas

How Democrats could replace Biden as presidential candidate before November

Democratic Party presumptive presidential candidate Joe Biden would have to agree to step down or face a challenger who would try to force him to do so.

11 months ago
Americas

Top Democrats rule out replacing Biden amid calls for him to quit 2024 race

After days of hand-wringing about Biden's poor night on stage debating Trump, Democratic leaders firmly rejected calls for their party to choose a younger presidential candidate for the Nov. 5 election.

11 months ago
Americas

Turbulence at Washington Post with pressure for profit

The Post's managing editor abruptly resigned; a chosen successor withdrew under fire, and a boss has been targeted in the newspaper's columns.

11 months ago
Americas

Biden acknowledges age, bad debate performance but vows to beat Trump

The New York Times editorial board, which endorsed Biden in 2020, called on him to drop out of the race to give the Democratic Party a better chance of beating Trump by picking another candidate.

11 months ago
Americas

Biden's shaky debate has overseas allies bracing for Trump return

For Japan and South Korea, among the closest US allies in Asia, relations with Trump's administration were at times strained by his demands for more payments towards military assistance as well as trade tensions.

11 months ago
Americas

Biden's shaky Trump debate alarms Democrats

Biden supporters had hoped Thursday night's debate would dispel worries that the 81-year-old was too old for another term, but the 90-minute clash appeared to do the opposite. 

11 months ago
Americas

A 'disaster': Biden's shaky start in debate with Trump rattles Democrats

Biden and Trump, 78, both have faced concerns about their age and fitness in the run-up to the Nov. 5 election, but they have weighed more heavily on Biden. 

11 months ago
Americas

US presidential debates over the years: gaffes, chaos, scandals

Here are some of the most memorable moments from more than 60 years of modern American debates.

11 months ago
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New US envoy to take up RI post amid diplomatic letup

As the United States assigns a new envoy to assume the seven-month-long vacant position in Jakarta, analysts have urged the Indonesian government to immediately fill its ambassador post in Washington to improve bilateral ties between the two nations, which appear to be at a crossroads. 

11 months ago
Americas

WikiLeaks founder Assange freed in US plea deal

Assange, who from 2010 published hundreds of thousands of confidential US documents on the whistleblowing website, was released this week from a high-security British prison.

11 months ago
Americas

British explorer Shackleton's ship found off Canada coast

The Royal Canadian Geographical Society told a news conference that the shipwreck was found in the Labrador Sea at a depth of 390 meters (1,280 feet).

11 months ago
Americas

Thousands of fish dead as lake dries in Mexican drought

The Bustillos lagoon was below 50 percent of its normal water level, local authorities said Wednesday, meaning pollutants were more concentrated and hazardous to the species that inhabit it.

11 months ago
Americas

US President's son Hunter Biden convicted of lying about drug use to buy gun

Sentencing guidelines for the gun charges are 15 to 21 months, but legal experts say defendants in similar cases often get shorter sentences and are less likely to be incarcerated if they abide by the terms of their pretrial release.

11 months ago
Americas

Sheinbaum's Mexico election win bolsters Latin American left

Sheinbaum will take office on October 1, replacing her political mentor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, known by his initials AMLO, who became Mexico's first leftist president in 2018.

1 year ago
Americas

In shakeup, Washington Post executive editor steps down

Assuming the job in 2021, Buzbee was the first female editor of the Post in 150 years. 

1 year ago
Americas

Claudia Sheinbaum set to be Mexico's first woman president

The 61-year-old former Mexico City mayor, who was representing the ruling party, won around 58 percent of votes, according to an estimate by the Enkoll polling firm.

1 year ago
Americas

Trump supporters call for riots and violent retribution after verdict

After Trump became the first US president to be convicted of a crime, his supporters responded with dozens of violent online posts, according to a Reuters review of comments on three Trump-aligned websites: the former president's own Truth Social platform, Patriots.Win and the Gateway Pundit.

1 year ago
Americas

Trump guilty verdict fires up some Republican donors, favorable polling helps too

The verdict has spurred some donors to boost their financial support for Trump - and, in at least one case, make a big donation to him for the first time.

1 year ago
Americas

Guilty on all counts, Donald Trump becomes first US president convicted of a crime

The verdict plunges the United States into unexplored territory ahead of the November vote, when Trump will try to win back the White House from Democratic President Joe Biden.

1 year ago
Americas

Israeli leaders split over post-war Gaza governance

The Israeli army has been battling Hamas militants across Gaza for more than seven months while also exchanging near-daily fire with Iran-backed Hezbollah forces along the northern border with Lebanon.

1 year ago
Americas

Biden and Trump are in a dead heat ahead of November, poll shows

Some 40 percent of registered voters in the eight-day poll, which closed on Tuesday, said they would vote for Biden, a Democrat, if the election were held today, with the same share picking former President Trump. The dead heat was little changed from a 1 point lead that Biden held in a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted April 29-30.

1 year ago
Americas

Seinfeld speech at Duke commencement prompts walkout protesting his support for Israel

Figures in robes and caps, some waving Palestinian flags, were seen filing out of crowds of graduates assembled on the grass in the North Carolina University's football stadium in the video posted on X. Reuters was able to verify the video's date and location.

1 year ago
Americas

Biden threatens to stop arm shipments if Israel invades Rafah

Biden, a self-described Zionist, had long resisted stopping any of the $3 billion in weapons the United States sends each year to Israel -- and pushed Congress for an increase in the wake of the October 7 attack by Hamas that triggered the major Israeli retaliation.

1 year ago
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How US campus protests over Gaza differ from Vietnam war era

Student bodies have changed, as has the Democratic Party. But given the tight rematch incumbent President Joe Biden, a Democrat, faces with Republican Donald Trump, they could hold political sway.

1 year ago
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