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May 14, 2019 / 1:22 AM / Updated an hour ago (Reuters) - Hidden-camera footage of New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft at a Florida massage parlor cannot be used as evidence in his trial on charges of soliciting prostitution, a judge ruled on Monday in a victory for the billionaire...

May 13, 2019 / 4:16 AM / in 18 minutes MELBOURNE (Reuters) - A group of islanders off Australia’s north coast are set to file a human rights complaint to the United Nations against the Australian government on Monday over inaction on climate change, which they say is threatening their homes...

May 14, 2019 / 12:29 AM / Updated an hour ago BEIJING (Reuters) - China’s top government diplomat said it was still possible to resolve the North Korean nuclear issue through international dialogue, even after Pyongyang’s two short-range missile tests this month. North Korea fired two...

May 13, 2019 / 10:02 PM / in 9 minutes WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The social media giant Facebook Inc is headed toward an agreement with the U.S. government over its privacy policies and practices that would put it under 20 years of oversight, according to a source knowledgeable about the...

May 13, 2019 / 11:20 PM / Updated 2 hours ago BERLIN (Reuters) - Amazon has almost doubled its brand value to $316 billion as it expands in areas like entertainment and smart speakers, while China’s Alibaba is now the world’s second most valuable retail brand, a survey showed on Tuesday. The...

May 13, 2019 / 8:59 AM / Updated 2 hours ago NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bitcoin surged to more than $8,000 late on Monday, its highest level since July last year, as the cryptocurrency’s rally gained further momentum. There is no real fundamental explanation as to why bitcoin, the original...

May 13, 2019 / 2:11 PM / Updated 4 hours ago WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A divided U.S. Supreme Court on Monday gave the go-ahead to an antitrust lawsuit accusing Apple Inc of forcing consumers to overpay for iPhone software applications, a decision that could lead to billions of dollars in damages...

May 13, 2019 / 9:21 PM / Updated 28 minutes ago (Reuters) - A California jury on Monday awarded more than $2 billion to a couple who claimed Bayer AG’s glyphosate-based Roundup weed killer caused their cancer, in the largest U.S. jury verdict to date against the company in litigation over the...

May 13, 2019 / 8:56 PM / a few seconds ago (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter fell and broke his hip on Monday as he was preparing to leave his home in Georgia for a turkey-hunting trip, and underwent successful surgery to repair the injury, a representative said. Carter, 94, a...

May 13, 2019 / 10:07 AM / Updated an hour ago BOSTON (Reuters) - Actress Felicity Huffman tearfully pleaded guilty on Monday to paying to rig a college entrance exam for her daughter, part of a wide-ranging scandal in which wealthy parents used fraud to secure their children spots at prominent...

May 13, 2019 / 9:46 PM / Updated an hour ago BOSTON (Reuters) - All director nominees at gunmaker Sturm Ruger & Co received a majority of support from investors, including three criticized by a top proxy adviser, a securities filing showed on Monday. Institutional Shareholder Services had...

May 13, 2019 / 1:30 PM / Updated 2 hours ago (Reuters) - U.S. health authorities recorded 75 new cases of the measles in the latest week, mostly in New York state, bringing the nationwide total to 839 cases in the country’s worst outbreak of the virus since 1994, federal health officials said...

May 13, 2019 / 11:27 AM / Updated 9 minutes ago KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Violence flared in Sudan’s capital Khartoum late on Monday after the military council and opposition groups said they had agreed to a power structure for the country’s transition following the ouster of President Omar...

May 13, 2019 / 9:38 PM / in an hour ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin that the Syria government targeted the Turkish-Russian cooperation in Idlib by violating the agreed ceasefire, a statement from Erdogan’s office said. Erdogan...

May 13, 2019 / 9:06 PM / in 24 minutes WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump praised Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Monday, describing him as “like me, a little controversial,” and brushing off concerns about threats to democratic norms in Hungary during Orban’s tenure...

May 12, 2019 / 1:57 PM / a few seconds ago WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he would meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping next month and that he expected their discussions would be “very fruitful,” as the trade war between the world’s two largest...

May 13, 2019 / 10:15 AM / Updated 28 minutes ago NEW YORK (Reuters) - The disciplinary trial of the New York City police officer who put Eric Garner, an unarmed black man, in a fatal chokehold began on Monday, nearly five years after widely seen video of the death sparked a national outcry...

May 13, 2019 / 10:07 AM / in an hour BOSTON (Reuters) - Actress Felicity Huffman arrived at a federal courthouse in Boston on Monday to plead guilty to paying to rig a college entrance exam for her daughter, part of a wide-ranging scandal in which wealthy parents used bribery and fraud to...

May 13, 2019 / 10:04 AM / Updated 39 minutes ago NEW YORK (Reuters) - Several women members of an alleged New York sex cult, including “Smallville” actress Allison Mack, became dangerously thin after following near-starvation diets at the direction of the group’s leader, a 12-year veteran of...

May 13, 2019 / 4:16 PM / in an hour WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court’s internal divisions over the death penalty were on full display again on Monday in fresh wrangling over how the justices handled recent attempts by two convicted murderers in Alabama and Texas to put off their...