By Sergiy Takhmazov NOVOLUHANSKE, Ukraine (Reuters) – Zoya, a pensioner, cowered under the stairs in the early hours of Tuesday as fresh shelling shook her home near the frontline of the war in eastern Ukraine, just hours after Russia said it would rec…
How Western sanctions will target Russia
(Corrects paragraph 24 to reflect sanctions on elites will begin on Tuesday, not Wednesday, after White House issued corrected transcript) By Karin Strohecker (Reuters) -The United States and its allies are coordinating new sanctions on Russia after Mo…
Man with gun takes hostage at Amsterdam Apple store, broadcaster reports
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -Dutch police said they had sent special units to a central square in Amsterdam because of a man with a gun at an Apple store where local broadcaster AT5 reported a hostage-taking during an apparent robbery. Several video clips on t…
Minneapolis police officers lacked ‘human decency’ in Floyd arrest, prosecutor says
By Jonathan Allen ST. PAUL, Minn. (Reuters) -A federal prosecutor told a jury in closing arguments on Tuesday that three former Minneapolis police officers ignored their training and basic human decency by failing to intervene when their colleague knel…
Biden to deliver remarks on Russia and Ukraine later on Tuesday, White House says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden will deliver remarks at 1 p.m. ET (1800 GMT) on Tuesday to provide an update on the situation concerning Russia and Ukraine, the White House said. The United States will announce potentially severe new sa…
Biden puts sanctions on Russian banks and elites as he says Ukraine invasion has begun
By Steve Holland, Jeff Mason, Daphne Psaledakis and Alexandra Alper WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden said on Tuesday the United States was imposing a first tranche of sanctions against Russia for launching an invasion of Ukraine and promised t…
‘Rest in power’: Arbery’s killers guilty on all federal hate-crimes charges
By Rich McKay BRUNSWICK, Ga. (Reuters) – The three white men convicted of chasing down and murdering a young Black man, Ahmaud Arbery, as he was out jogging in their suburban Georgia community, were found guilty on Tuesday of committing federal hate cr…
S&P 500 confirms correction; Ukraine-Russia crisis keeps investors on edge
By Caroline Valetkevitch NEW YORK (Reuters) – Wall Street’s main indexes fell on Tuesday, with the S&P 500 confirming a correction, as the Ukraine-Russia crisis kept investors on edge after Russian President Vladimir Putin recognized two breakaway regi…
U.S. Supreme Court rejects challenge to Maine COVID-19 vaccine mandate
By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday turned away a challenge to Maine’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for healthcare workers, rebuffing for the second time a group of plaintiffs who sought a religious exemption. The jus…
U.S. Supreme Court takes up clash between religion and LGBT rights
By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday took up a major new legal fight pitting religious beliefs against LGBT rights, agreeing to hear an evangelical Christian web designer’s free speech claim that she cannot be forc…