By Nathan Layne (Reuters) – A rural Pennsylvania county violated a court order when it allowed a forensics company to examine voting equipment in July, marking the county’s second security breach of the machines, the state’s top election official alleg…
Classified papers seized from Trump home held U.S. secrets about Iran, China -Washington Post
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Highly sensitive intelligence on Iran and China was in some of the documents recovered by the FBI during an August search of former U.S. President Donald Trump’s home in Florida, The Washington Post reported on Friday, citing peo…
White House in talks with Musk to set up Starlink in Iran – CNN
(Reuters) – The White House is in talks with billionaire Elon Musk about setting up SpaceX’s satellite internet service Starlink in Iran, CNN reported on Friday, citing officials familiar with the matter. The satellite-based broadband service could hel…
Canada bans new handgun sales, imports in latest gun action
(Reuters) – Regulations prohibiting the sale, purchase or transfer of handguns within Canada take effect on Friday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in a statement, adding that the measure also blocks newly acquired handguns from being impor…
Pentagon declines to offer details on U.S.-Russia defense call
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Pentagon on Friday declined to offer specifics about the first call since May between U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and his Russian counterpart beyond saying that Austin emphasized a need for lines of communication amid…
Trump ex-adviser Bannon sentenced to four months for contempt of Congress
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Steve Bannon, a one-time adviser to former President Donald Trump, was sentenced by a judge on Friday to four months in prison for refusing to cooperate with lawmakers investigating last year’s U.S. Capitol attac…
Comeback king: Boris Johnson considering a run for UK prime minister
By Elizabeth Piper LONDON (Reuters) – Out of power for a matter of months, comeback king Boris Johnson is once again being touted as the new leader of the governing Conservative Party and Britain’s prime minister. The man who was forced to quit as prim…
Mayor of Brazil meatpacking hub probed amid wave of electoral coercion cases
By Ana Mano SAO PAULO (Reuters) -The mayor of a major Brazilian agribusiness hub is under investigation for telling business leaders they should direct employees to help re-elect far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, according to three people familiar wi…
Zelenskiy calls on West to warn Russia not to blow up dam
By Jonathan Landay FRONTLINE NORTH OF KHERSON, Ukraine (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged the West to warn Russia not to blow up a dam that would flood a swath of southern Ukraine, as his forces prepared to push Moscow’s troops fr…
Chess-Niemann files $100m defamation lawsuit against Carlsen, Chess.com
(Reuters) – Hans Niemann, the teenage American grandmaster at the centre of an alleged cheating scandal, sued world champion Magnus Carlsen, online platform Chess.com and others for slander and libel on Thursday and is seeking at least $100 million in …