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By Gram Slattery and Nathan Layne WASHINGTON, June 15 (Reuters) - The Trump administration and Iran's leadership agreed on Sunday to terms to end their war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a development that has delivered significant relief to global markets. But while the accord is an opportunity for U.S. President Do...

WASHINGTON, June 16 (Reuters) - The FBI said on Tuesday it had thwarted a potential threat ahead of the Ultimate Fighting Championship mixed martial arts event in Washington last weekend and has multiple people in custody. Fox News Digital cited unidentified sources as saying the alleged plot involved using explosive-l...

By Jonathan Stempel June 15 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court turned away on Monday a gun industry challenge to a New York law that permits lawsuits against gun makers, wholesalers and dealers for endangering people's safety through sales of firearms ...

EVIAN-LES-BAINS, France/DUBAI/JERUSALEM, June 15 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday a preliminary agreement to end the war in the Gulf has already been signed by the United States and Iran, though details have yet to be made public. "The deal's all signed," Trump said after he arrived in F...

LOS ANGELES, June 15 (Reuters) - A U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress bomber crashed on Monday ​shortly after takeoff from Edwards ‌Air Force Base in Southern California's Mojave Desert, the base said. Aerial video footage of the crash scene, about 100...

By Gram Slattery and Nathan Layne WASHINGTON, June 15 (Reuters) - The Trump administration and Iran's leadership agreed on Sunday to terms to end their war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a development that has delivered significant relief to global m...

By Diana Novak Jones June 15 (Reuters) - Florida's attorney general sued TikTok on Monday over claims it is violating the state's law barring social media platforms from allowing children under age 14 to create accounts. In the lawsuit, filed in state ...

By Jason Lange WASHINGTON, June 15 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's approval rating ticked a percentage point higher in recent days to 36% as public dissatisfaction over the cost of living grew less intense, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll ​that ...

LOS ANGELES, June 15 (Reuters) - California ​Governor ‌Gavin Newsom on Monday said ‌U.S. ​President ⁠Donald Trump ⁠had directed the Justice Department to ​investigate him, ⁠without ⁠providing details. "They ​have not ​found a crime - ‌they are simply t...

By Marisa Taylor WASHINGTON, June 15 (Reuters) - Two Democratic members of Congress on Monday pressed the administration of President Donald Trump to retain communication records related to pardons granted to recipients including an electric-vehicle ma...

By Jarrett Renshaw June 15 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that a July 4 celebration on the National Mall marking the nation's ​250th anniversary would double as one of his ‌signature rallies, blurring the line between official c...

BEIJING, June 15 (Reuters) - Heavy rainfall battered parts of southern China since the weekend, including the Guangxi region and Guangdong province, triggering flooding in ​cities, disrupting transport services and forcing thousands to ‌relocate. • Chi...

By Karen Freifeld WASHINGTON, June 15 (Reuters) - U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick took action against Anthropic's latest Mythos and Fable AI models after warning of the unacceptable risk they could be deployed by or diverted to military intellig...

(Adds dropped words "others in" in paragraph 3) LONDON, June 15 (Reuters) - British artist Anish Kapoor presents bold, large new works alongside some of his older sculptures at an upcoming ​exhibition at London's Hayward Gallery, in a return to ‌the sp...

WASHINGTON, June 15 (Reuters) - U.S. homebuilder sentiment fell in June, weighed down by higher mortgage rates and costs for construction materials, a survey showed on Monday. The National Association of Home ​Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market index ...

By Blake Brittain WASHINGTON, June 15 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a bid by the nation's oldest federal judge, 98-year-old Pauline Newman, to overturn her suspension from duties in 2023 during an investigation into her ...

By Jonathan Stempel June 15 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court turned away on Monday a gun industry challenge to a New York law that permits lawsuits against gun makers, wholesalers and dealers for endangering people's safety through sales of firearms ...

By Nate Raymond WASHINGTON, June 15 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear a bid by Carter Page, an adviser to President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign, to revive a lawsuit against former FBI officials accusing them of ​unlawfully obtain...

By Daniel Wiessner June 15 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a challenge by Macy's to a National Labor Relations Board decision requiring the retailer to compensate employees who the company fired in a case in which the comp...

By John Kruzel WASHINGTON, June 15 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a former high school student's free-speech challenge to an Indiana public school district's policy that barred her from displaying a flyer with an anti-abo...