Exclusive: Amazon plans smartphone comeback more than a decade after Fire Phone flop

In 2014, Amazon introduced its first smartphone, hoping to take on Apple and Samsung. Instead, the Fire Phone - overseen directly by founder Jeff Bezos - was scrapped in barely over a year, one of Ama...

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Man posing as FBI agent tries to free Luigi Mangione from jail with a fork, officials say

The man showed up to the Metropolitan Detention Center with a barbecue fork and pizza cutter, court records said.

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How much is a NYC Christmas tree in this economy? Yule love this map.

The average price of a NYC Christmas pine is $119. Found a better deal? Tell us.

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Inside the Trump family’s global crypto cash machine

The U.S. president’s family raked in more than $800 million from sales of crypto assets in the first half of 2025 alone, a Reuters examination found, on top of potentially billions more in unrealized “on paper” gains. Much of that cash came from foreign sources as Donald Trump's sons touted their business on an international investor roadshow.

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California, Oregon and Washington form health alliance amid federal vaccine tensions

U.S. states of California, Oregon and Washington said on Wednesday they have launched a new health alliance to provide unified vaccine recommendations amid growing tensions over federal immunization policies and public health directives.

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Exclusive: Meta created flirty chatbots of Taylor Swift, other celebrities without permission

Meta has appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities – including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez – to create dozens of flirty social-media chatbots without their permission, Reuters has found.

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Hussam al-Masri, the Reuters journalist killed by Israeli fire in Gaza

Hussam al-Masri reported on the war's civilian suffering while himself living in a tent and struggling to find food for his family.

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Israel hits Gaza hospital, killing at least 15 people, including journalists

Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital in Gaza on Monday killed at least 15 people, including three journalists, one of whom worked for Reuters, Palestinian health officials said.

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Pet alligator joins her human family in the pool

Weather permitting, Krystian Kaulis likes to go swimming with his pet Mississippi alligator.

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Exclusive: US diplomats asked if non-whites qualify for Trump refugee program for South Africans

In early July, the top official at the U.S. embassy in South Africa reached out to Washington asking for clarification on a contentious U.S. policy: could non-whites apply for a refugee program geared toward white South Africans if they met other requirements?

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US-funded contraceptives for poor nations to be burned in France, sources say

U.S.-funded contraceptives worth nearly $10 million are being sent to France from Belgium to be incinerated, after Washington rejected offers from the United Nations and family planning organisations to buy or ship the supplies to poor nations, two sources told Reuters.

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Trump sues Dow Jones, News Corp, Rupert Murdoch, WSJ reporters for libel, court records show

The issue has caused a rare fracture within Trump's base of support.

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Sacramento County man in Jan. 6 riot pardoned by Trump convicted for child porn — The Sacramento Bee

Kyle Travis Colton of Sacramento County, convicted in Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot and pardoned by President Donald Trump, was found guilty in child porn case.

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US health department hands over Medicaid personal data to ICE

The U.S. health department is giving Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials access to the personal data of 79 million Medicaid enrollees to help them track down immigrants who may not be living legally in the country, it said on Thursday.

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Chinatown Could Be Hit Hard by Trump’s Cuts to SNAP

With stricter work requirements and tighter eligibility rules for applicants, the changes to SNAP already have communities like Chinatown feeling the bill’s emotional toll.

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The IRS Is Building a Vast System to Share Millions of Taxpayers’ Data With ICE

ProPublica has obtained the blueprint for the Trump administration’s unprecedented plan to turn over IRS records to Homeland Security in order to speed up the agency’s mass deportation efforts.

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A Nazi document trove raises questions for Argentina

The Supreme Court official had a secret to share when he called Eliahu Hamra, the rabbi of Argentina's main Jewish community center, one night around the turn of the year.

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Trump Mobile Keeps Charging My Credit Card And I Have No Idea Why

I didn’t sign up for the Trump Mobile cellphone plan. I still haven’t received my gold plated Trump phone. But the company just charged my credit card again.

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Insight: Trump's $100 million crypto mystery man

Of all the riddles wrapped in the digital wallets sending funds to President Donald Trump’s World Liberty Financial crypto business, a little-known entity last month became the biggest.

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Exclusive: OpenAI to release web browser in challenge to Google Chrome

OpenAI is close to releasing an AI-powered web browser that will challenge Alphabet's market-dominating Google Chrome, three people familiar with the matter told Reuters.

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Texas is relying on FEMA. State leaders said it should be cut

The governor and top emergency official in Texas are both members of a council advising the Trump administration on options for eliminating the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

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The Wegovy effect: A new drug reshapes the lives of teens wih obesity

Reuters delves into the experiences of four American teenagers with obesity who were among the first wave to take Novo Nordisk’s weight-loss drug.

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Exclusive: US Marines carry out first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles, video shows

Marines deployed to Los Angeles carried out the detention of a civilian on Friday, the U.S. military confirmed after being presented with Reuters images, in the first known detention by active-duty troops deployed there by President Donald Trump.

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Exclusive: Musk’s DOGE expanding his Grok AI in US government, raising conflict concerns

Elon Musk’s DOGE team is expanding use of his artificial intelligence chatbot Grok in the federal government to analyze data, said three people familiar with the matter, potentially putting at risk sensitive information on millions of Americans.

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Trump draws global crypto investors with $148 million meme coin dinner

Buyers of President Trump’s meme coin are converging from around the globe on Thursday for an exclusive dinner at his private country club, overlooking the Potomac River, just outside the nation’s capital.

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