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By Pavel Polityuk and Aleksandar Vasovic LVIV, Ukraine/KYIV (Reuters) -Russia blocked Facebook and some other websites on Friday and passed a law that gave Moscow much stronger powers to crack down on independent journalism, spurring the BBC, Bloomberg…

By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol issued a subpoena on Thursday to Kimberly Guilfoyle, a U.S. television personality who is engaged to be married to Donald…

By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) – Incidents of anti-Semitic propaganda in the United States rose by 27% in 2021, the Anti-Defamation League, a New York-based advocacy group, said in a report on Thursday. It said the 352 incidents were up from 277 in 2020. …

By Francois Murphy and Parisa Hafezi VIENNA (Reuters) – Talks on reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal appeared to near a climax with talk of an imminent ministerial meeting as a U.N. report on Thursday showed Iran is most of the way to amassing enough e…

By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) – A Kentucky jury on Thursday acquitted a white former detective of endangering neighbors of Breonna Taylor during a botched nighttime raid that killed the Black woman in her home, clearing law enforcement of all criminal lia…

By Hyunjoo Jin SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – SpaceX chief Elon Musk warned there was a high chance the company’s Starlink satellite broadband service could be “targeted” in Ukraine, which has been hit by Russian invasion. The warning came days after an int…

By Devik Jain and Noel Randewich (Reuters) – Wall Street’s main indexes struggled for direction on Thursday, with growth stocks including Tesla and Advanced Micro Devices losing ground as the Ukraine crisis kept investors on edge. Tesla lost 3.2% and A…

By Philip Blenkinsop and Gergely Szakacs BRUSSELS/BUDAPEST (Reuters) – European Union interior ministers gave unanimous backing on Thursday to a plan to grant temporary residency to Ukrainians fleeing the Russian invasion, which should come into force …

By Sarah N. Lynch and Luc Cohen WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Andrew Adams, a veteran federal prosecutor in New York City who has experience handling cases involving Russian organized crime groups, will lead the Justice Department’s new task force ai…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – At least 12 people were injured following a fire and explosion at a residential high-rise apartment building in Silver Spring, Maryland, that then partially collapsed, local authorities said on Thursday. Heavy smoke was seen pour…