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By James Pomfret HONG KONG (Reuters) – Lam Foon, 98, sits propped up and swaddled in soggy woollen blankets in a hospital bed just outside the entrance to Hong Kong’s Caritas Medical Centre, waiting for tests to confirm her preliminary positive result …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – There was a sharp rise in reports of sexual assault at top U.S. military academies during the 2020-2021 academic year, a Pentagon report released on Thursday said, reaching their highest levels since data started to be collected …

By Herbert Lash NEW YORK (Reuters) – Gold prices jumped to an eight-month high and safe-haven debt rose on Thursday after U.S. President Joe Biden said there was every indication Russia planned to attack Ukraine, while Moscow accused Washington of igno…

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The head of the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) who is leaving halfway through his five-year term said on Thursday that he was not pressured by the White House to resign. FAA Administrator Steve Dick…

By Michelle Nichols and Humeyra Pamuk UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken laid out at the United Nations Security Council on Thursday how Washington believes Russia could seek to invade Ukraine, warning that Moscow was prep…

By Jeff Mason and Jarrett Renshaw LORAIN, Ohio (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden used a visit to Ohio on Thursday to tout $1 billion in funding for cleaning up and restoring environmentally damaged areas in the Great Lakes region, vowing to continue …

By Tim Reid and Alexandra Ulmer (Reuters) – A Colorado elections clerk was sued on Thursday after he copied data from voting machines with the help of two men with ties to groups supporting the false conspiracy theory that the 2020 election was stolen …

By Tyler Clifford (Reuters) – Hundreds of people are expected to gather on Thursday to mourn Amir Locke, a Black man killed by law enforcement in a Minneapolis apartment during a no-knock raid, the latest in a series of killings to spark outrage over p…

By Chuck Mikolajczak NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. stocks dropped more than 1% on Thursday, with investors gravitating toward defensive sectors and safe havens such as bonds and gold as geopolitical tensions heightened between Washington and Russia over Uk…

By Steve Scherer, David Ljunggren and Julie Gordon OTTAWA (Reuters) -Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday said he had sought emergency powers to end protests that blocked border crossings and central Ottawa because the standoff posed an e…