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By Rami Ayyub (Reuters) – The Michigan teenager charged with first-degree murder in the deadliest U.S. school shooting of 2021 will assert an insanity defense, his lawyers wrote in a court notice filed Thursday. Prosecutors say they intend to rebut the…

By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) – Adult film actress Stormy Daniels told jurors at her former lawyer Michael Avenatti’s criminal fraud trial on Thursday that he “stole from me and lied to me.” Testifying as a prosecution witness, Daniels said in Manhat…

By Tom Balmforth MOSCOW (Reuters) – An activist ally of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny told Reuters on Thursday she had fled Russia to avoid arrest, while two of his top aides said they had received letters with threats to themselves and their families….

By Bansari Mayur Kamdar and Devik Jain (Reuters) – Wall Street’s main indexes edged lower in choppy trading on Thursday as a slump in chipmakers and Tesla outweighed a rise in tech-focused firms Netflix and Microsoft. Intel Corp tumbled 7% on a downbea…

(Reuters) -The European Union’s drug regulator on Thursday approved Pfizer Inc’s antiviral COVID-19 pill for treating adults at risk of severe illness, as the region scrambles to boost its arsenal to fight the Omicron variant. The endorsement by the Eu…

(Reuters) -Apple Inc is planning a new service that will allow small businesses to accept payments directly on their iPhones without any extra hardware such as Square’s payment terminals, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday. Currently, retailers can a…

(Reuters) – The world’s first medical trial authorised to deliberately expose participants to the coronavirus is seeking more volunteers as it steps up efforts to help develop better vaccines. The Oxford University trial was launched last April, three …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. government said on Thursday it would grant an additional 20,000 H-2B visas for the first half of the fiscal year, in an attempt to ease the U.S. labor crunch. The visas are aimed at helping U.S. employers that face irrep…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday called on Congress to immediately act to enshrine the Equal Rights Amendment in the U.S. Constitution and formally protect women’s rights decades after lawmakers adopted them. Biden, in a stat…

By Dmitry Antonov, Tom Balmforth and Simon Lewis MOSCOW/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Russia said on Thursday it was clear the United States was not willing to address its main security concerns in their standoff over Ukraine, but both sides kept the door open…