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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – The head of security of the central Mexican state of Aguascalientes has died in a helicopter crash that killed a total of five people, the state’s governor announced on Thursday. The crash was captured on video shared on social …

(Reuters) -Gap Inc beat Wall Street estimates for quarterly sales and posted a profit on Thursday, helped by steady demand for its formal clothing and dresses even as decades-high inflation squeezes consumer spending. Shares of the company jumped about…

(Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday launched a probe into whether Oklahoma, Oklahoma City and the city’s police department discriminate against people who have mental health disabilities in the provision of behavioral care services. The …

By Dan Peleschuk and Max Hunder KYIV (Reuters) – Missiles rained down on Ukrainian energy facilities on Thursday, as Russian forces stepped up attacks in eastern Ukraine, reinforced by troops pulled from Kherson city in the south which Kyiv recaptured …

By Mike Scarcella (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Thursday blocked key provisions of a Florida state law that curbs professors from endorsing particular viewpoints in public university classrooms, calling the measure “positively dystopian” in the latest bl…

By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the first woman to hold that powerful post, said on Thursday she will step down as the chamber’s Democratic leader as her allies prepared a passing of the torch…

By Will Dunham (Reuters) – Robert Clary, the diminutive Paris-born actor and singer who survived 31 months in Nazi concentration camps but later had no qualms about co-starring in “Hogan’s Heroes,” the American situation comedy set in a German World Wa…

By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) – Negotiations on new rules for dealing with pandemics are underway at the World Health Organization (WHO), with a target date of May 2024 for a legally binding agreement to be adopted by the U.N. health agency’s 194 memb…

By Jennifer Rigby and Emma Farge LONDON (Reuters) – Pharmaceutical companies could be made to disclose prices and deals agreed for any products they make to fight future pandemics, under new rules being drawn up by the World Health Organization and rev…

By Eduardo Baptista and Martin Quin Pollard BEIJING (Reuters) – President Xi Jinping, conspicuously absent from the main stage of diplomacy during China’s COVID isolation, has been mostly smiles and handshakes on his return this week with a flurry of m…