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By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – McDonald’s Corp has been ordered by a U.S. judge to defend against media entrepreneur Byron Allen’s $10 billion lawsuit accusing the fast-food chain of “racial stereotyping” by not advertising with Black-owned media. In …

(Reuters) – The United States government has sent out over 25 million of the updated COVID-19 booster shots, mostly from Pfizer/BioNTech, as production of the Moderna shot continues to ramp up, a federal health agency said on Tuesday. Some U.S. pharmac…

(Reuters) – CVS Health and Walmart have agreed to pay $147.5 million to settle the state of West Virginia’s opioid claims, state attorney general Patrick Morrisey said Tuesday. (Reporting by Dietrich Knauth; editing by Jonathan Oatis)

By Valerie Volcovici (Reuters) – Denmark on Tuesday pledged over $13 million (100 million Danish crowns) to support developing nations that have experienced losses caused by climate disruptions, becoming the first country to offer “loss and damage” com…

By Sabine Siebold PRISTINA/MITROVICA (Reuters) – NATO is ready to ramp up troops in Kosovo if tensions among minority Serbs flare again, the deputy commander of the alliance’s peacekeeping mission (KFOR) said on Tuesday as a deadline in a spat with the…

DUBAI (Reuters) -Protests raged for a fourth straight day across Iran on Tuesday and authorities said three people had been killed during unrest over the death of a young woman in police custody. The death last week of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini who was a…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Biden administration said on Tuesday it will offer funding for up to eight U.S. entities or communities that are interested in learning about the storage of nuclear waste, an issue that has hampered the nuclear power industry…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Joe Manchin will unveil his full energy permitting bill on Wednesday to speed fossil fuel projects and offer incentives for renewable energy electricity transmission, legislation that faces an uphill battle. “The tex…

By Ivelisse Rivera, Rich McKay and Scott DiSavino SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico/ATLANTA/NEW YORK (Reuters) -Some 80% of homes and businesses in Puerto Rico still lacked power on Tuesday as rains from Hurricane Fiona receded, leaving residents complaining that …

By Karen Freifeld, Luc Cohen and Sarah N. Lynch NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. judge appointed to review documents seized last month by the FBI from Donald Trump’s Florida home raised doubts on Tuesday about the former president’s claim that he should n…