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July 30 (Reuters) - Newcastle United manager Eddie Howe has stepped down from his role with immediate effect and will be replaced by Al Ahli coach Matthias Jaissle, British media reported on ​Thursday. The 48-year-old leaves after five years in charge,...

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, July 30 (Reuters) - Five nonprofit organizations sued the U.S. Agriculture Department on Thursday over grant conditions they say restrict speech in support of ​diversity initiatives and immigration rights. Here are details...

By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS, July 31 (Reuters) - Human-caused climate change made the extreme weather fuelling wildfires in southwestern France twice as likely, and made the conditions driving blazes in central Spain 20 times ​more likely, scientists said ...

July 30 (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court found Enbridge liable for trespass for running a pipeline under land belonging to a northern Wisconsin tribe, but gave the Canadian energy company more time to reroute the pipeline and ​ordered a recalculation o...

By Alexandra Ulmer and Dawn Kopecki NEW YORK, July 30 (Reuters) - Elon Musk's pro-Trump political group is planning to spend up to $120 million to turn out Republican voters in the November congressional elections, the New York Times reported on ​Thurs...

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, July 30 (Reuters) - The official who led the Federal Aviation Administration response to the fatal January 2025 collision between an Army helicopter and an American Airlines ​regional passenger jet that killed 67 people ...

By Jacob Bogage WASHINGTON, July 30 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an order giving federal officials the power to block exports of old batteries and other electronic waste filled with critical minerals, part of a broader pus...

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, July 30 (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate voted on Thursday to advance the nomination of David Cummins, a senior vice president of Serco, to head the Transportation Security Administration as the ​Trump administration pushes t...

By Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff WASHINGTON, July 30 (Reuters) - A secretive U.S. court created 30 years ago to deport suspected terrorists convened for the first time on Thursday, opening a new front in the Trump administration's effort to remove non-citizens a...

By Julia Harte July 30 (Reuters) - A man who gave his troubled son the rifle he used to kill four people at a Georgia high school was sentenced on Thursday to 15 years in prison, the culmination of ​the state's first case in which a parent was convicte...

By Richard Cowan, David Morgan and Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff July 30 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump threatened on Thursday to withdraw until next year his nomination of Todd Blanche to serve as U.S. attorney general, escalating a standoff with Senate Rep...

BEIJING, July 30 (Reuters) - A total of ​51 people ‌have been confirmed dead after a landslide ‌in ​southwestern ⁠China's Chongqing on ⁠July 17, while 10 are still missing, ​the local government ⁠said in ⁠a statement ​late on ​Thursday. Search efforts ...

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, July 30 (Reuters) - Walt Disney-owned ABC said on Thursday that the Federal Communications Commission's threat to revoke the network's broadcast licenses is part of an unprecedented campaign of intimidation over broadcas...

By Ahmed Aboulenein WASHINGTON, July 30 (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate health committee voted on Thursday to advance the nomination of President Donald Trump's pick for CDC director Dr. Erica Schwartz, handing his administration a ​rare win after repeated...

By Denis Balibouse and Cecile Mantovani LES BRENETS, Switzerland, July 30 (Reuters) - Lake Brenets, a long, winding lake on the Swiss-French border, is all but drained and has been unnavigable for more ​than a week amid a prolonged drought that has hit...

By Marissa Davison and Sam Tabahriti DUNWICH, England, July 30 (Reuters) - A wildfire in eastern England has forced evacuations of nearby communities and prompted road closures, but was not expected to spread towards nuclear facilities a few miles ​awa...

By Juana Casas SANTIAGO, July 30 (Reuters) - Latin America is expected to experience a severe El Niño weather phenomenon from October to December, which ​is likely to worsen agricultural supply shocks ‌caused by conflict in the Strait of Hormuz, a seni...

By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON, July 30 (Reuters) - U.S. economic growth slowed in the second quarter as imports widened the trade deficit, but robust consumer spending and business investment related to the buildout of artificial intelligence infrastruc...

By Tim Kelly, Tom Bateman and Issei Kato YATSUSHIRO, Japan, July 30 (Reuters) - Hirosuke Shimada's home emerged largely unscathed from this week's earthquake in southwestern Japan, but the violent shaking left him, his wife and their three daughters to...

By Mariela Nava MARACAIBO, Venezuela, July 29 (Reuters) - Weeks after the twin earthquakes that devastated Venezuela's central coast, Adriana Aponte and her family joined a growing exodus of ​survivors fleeing to poorer regions to escape the trauma ‌of...