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By Jonathan Stempel Nov 5 (Reuters) - Google, Meta Platforms and TikTok sued California to block enforcement of a new state law intended to limit the risk of addicting children under age 16 to online platforms. The law, known as Assembly ​Bill 1709, pr...

LONDON, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Residents living near a major Chinese-controlled cobalt mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo have sued the mine's operator for $6.3 million, alleging that pollution harmed their ​health, according to UK-based corporate wat...

WASHINGTON, Nov 5 (Reuters) - The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment slipped to a 57-year last week as layoffs remained low against the backdrop of a resilient labor market. Initial claims for state unemployment benefits fell 6,000 ...

By Francesca Halliwell LONDON, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Actor and filmmaker Jordan Firstman wanted his directorial debut, "Club Kid", to reveal a side of himself audiences had not seen before. "In my real life, ​I'm very sensitive. I'm very emotional," he tol...

FRANKFURT, Nov 5 (Reuters) - More than 100 European companies have warned that proposed reforms of the EU carbon market could sharply raise costs for ​energy-intensive industries before they have the means to ‌decarbonise, threatening investment and pr...

By Sahil Pandey November 5 (Reuters) - The rising cost of veterinary care is pushing more Americans to buy pet insurance, as advances in animal medicine give owners access to treatments that were uncommon or unavailable a decade ago. For Norwalk, Ohio...

By Tim Reid WASHINGTON, Nov 5 (Reuters) - With the US midterms over, Democrats are turning to what could become one of their most crowded and unpredictable presidential primaries in decades, a 2028 contest likely to expose the party's divide over how t...

By Alexandra Ulmer Nov 5 (Reuters) - After sweeping both chambers of the US Congress, Democrats will turn their new investigative powers on the Trump family's business deals as they make what they call corruption a central part of a 2028 campaign for t...

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, Nov 5 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's proposed 250-foot (76-meter) triumphal arch in Washington could win approval as soon as Thursday, clearing the way for construction on the latest major project in his drive to r...

By Joseph Ax WASHINGTON, Nov 5 (Reuters) - The unprecedented national Republican effort to reshape US House districts across the country failed on Tuesday, as the party's intended seawall was swept aside by a Democratic tsunami. As of midday Wednesday,...

By Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Quinta Brunson wants to set the record straight about the animated Warner Bros. film "The Cat in the Hat": kids still read the classic Dr. Seuss ​story in schools. Brunson, creator of "Abbott Elementa...

FORT WORTH, TEXAS, Nov 5 (Reuters) - When Geronimo Perez pulled up to vote at the Worth Heights Community Center in South Fort Worth, Texas, one thing was on his mind: a friend who had been deported just a week earlier. Perez, 56, cast his ballot for t...

By Dawn Kopecki, Sheila Dang, Alexandra Ulmer and Virginia Furness NEW YORK, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Elon Musk spent nearly half a billion dollars on the US midterm elections, but the record expenditure yielded little for the world's richest man and leader o...

By Nupur Anand, Tatiana Bautzer and Michelle Price NEW YORK, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Wall Street banks were bracing on Wednesday for heightened scrutiny after Democrats took control of the US Congress, with executives and analysts predicting lawmakers would ...

By Gram Slattery, David Morgan and Jason Lange WASHINGTON, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Democrats vowed to use their resounding midterm victory to rein in President Donald Trump, setting up two years of possible deadlock in Washington, as Trump spent his first po...

By Simon Jessop LONDON, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Three quarters of European Union citizens say moving away from fossil fuels is urgent and nearly nine in ten want politicians to prioritise renewable energy sources, a survey ​of 23,000 people by the European I...

JAKARTA, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Australia will join Indonesia's waterbombing operations to help put out fires that have been raging for months, a government ​agency said on Thursday, a day after ‌a helicopter crashed during a firefighting mission, killing t...

By David Lawder HOUSTON, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Democrats' resounding sweep to a majority in Congress gives them a big microphone and spotlight to scrutinize President Donald Trump's trade policies, but largely leaves them unable to override his veto on any...

By Martyn Herman LONDON, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Climate change is becoming a growing threat to British sport, damaging facilities, disrupting fixtures, increasing costs and deterring participation, according to a report that warns the sector is dangerously ...

Nov 4 (Reuters) - The White House has scheduled for December 14 a planned hearing into allegations of mortgage fraud by Federal Reserve Governor ​Lisa Cook, the New York Times reported ‌on Wednesday, citing an unnamed White House official, in a new pha...