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By Nolan D. McCaskill WASHINGTON, Sept 19 (Reuters) - Democrats are seeking to reclaim Congress, but lingering divisions from a bruising run-up to the November election threaten to imperil the party's attempt to claw back power from President Donald Tr...

JAKARTA, Sept 19 (Reuters) - A group of indigenous and civil-society organisations in Indonesia's West Kalimantan has filed a class-action lawsuit against President ​Prabowo Subianto and other authorities over their ‌handling of forest fires in the reg...

By AJ Vicens Sept 18 (Reuters) - Foreign hackers targeted and manipulated equipment in two local Colorado water systems last month, a spokesperson for Colorado Governor Jared ​Polis said on Friday. The incidents occurred at two privately ‌owned utiliti...

By Jacob Bogage and Steve Holland WASHINGTON, Sept 18 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday refused to say whether he would attempt to demolish the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the ​iconic facility on Washington's Potoma...

WASHINGTON, Sept 18 (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump on Friday signed the sweeping Russia sanctions bill ​into law, the White House ‌said in a statement, paving the way for increased economic pressure on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine. The le...

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, Sept 18 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump has extended an executive order that would impose a fee of $100,000 for H-1B non-immigrant visas by another year, the White ​House said on Friday. US employers seeking to hire ski...

By Jacob Bogage and Steve Holland WASHINGTON, Sept 18 (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump said on Friday his son, Donald Trump Jr., has told him he would ​pay back a Russian oligarch who bankrolled wedding ‌celebrations for him in the Bahamas in May....

Sept 18 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that ​he might bar ‌other media outlets from the White House, hours after saying CNN, MSNOW and Politico were ‌banned. "I ​don't want ⁠them in my ⁠office," Trump told reporters at the Whit...

By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON, Sept 18 (Reuters) - The Russia sanctions bill signed into law by US President Donald Trump on Friday gives him new powers to impose tariffs that could last well beyond his presidency, injecting more uncertainty into the glo...

Sept 18 (Reuters) - A historic super El Niño weather pattern, expected to peak between November 2026 and January 2027, threatens to rapidly deteriorate food ​security across Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador ‌as conflict-disrupted shipping drives up ...

Sept 18 (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump said on Friday that his administration plans to demand vaccine makers split certain childhood ​shots into five separate doses, which ‌he believes will result in a massive reduction in autism, an idea repeat...

By Nate Raymond BOSTON, Sept 18 (Reuters) - A US federal appeals court rejected on Friday a policy adopted by President Donald Trump's administration that allows authorities to rapidly deport migrants to countries other than their own without giving th...

By Ahmed Aboulenein WASHINGTON, Sept 18 (Reuters) - US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. named an ally, Dr. John Gaitanis, to lead a key federal advisory panel on autism on Friday, replacing a chair who had just steered through a new strategic pla...

By David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON, Sept 18 (Reuters) - The Republican chair of the US congressional committee on China on Friday urged President Donald Trump to take a tough line in his summit with Xi Jinping next week, warning against ​concessions and ca...

By Jacob Bogage and David Shepardson WASHINGTON, Sept 18 (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump said on Friday he is banning three major news outlets - CNN, MS NOW and Politico - from the White House in his latest threat to the independent press. The mo...

By Nate Raymond Sept 18 (Reuters) - A federal judge in Rhode Island ruled on Friday that President Donald Trump's administration unlawfully canceled a $7 billion grant program aimed at expanding solar energy in low-income communities. US ​District Judg...

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, Sept 18 (Reuters) - The Federal Aviation Administration said on Friday a proposed triumphal arch President Donald Trump wants to build near Arlington National Cemetery in Washington would not pose a hazard ​to aircraft b...

(Corrects headline to say magnitude ​4.8 earthquake, ‌not magnitude 4.9) SANTIAGO, Sept 18 (Reuters) - ‌An ​earthquake ⁠of magnitude 4.8 ⁠struck on Friday Chile's Metropolitan Region, ​home to ⁠capital ⁠city Santiago, ​the European-Mediterranean ​Seism...

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, Sept 18 (Reuters) - Major automakers, suppliers and dealers on Friday urged President Donald Trump to keep Chinese automakers out of the US market, ahead of his meeting with China's President Xi Jinping next week. Last w...

By Jonathan Allen Sept 18 (Reuters) - A US immigration agent pleaded not guilty on Friday to federal charges of lying to the FBI that he was attacked before shooting a Venezuelan man in the leg in Minneapolis at the height of President Donald Trump's d...