Dec 08, 2023
Michigan teen gets life in prison for 2021 school shooting

By Joseph Ax (Reuters) -A teenager who fatally shot four classmates two years ago at his high school outside Detroit was sentenced to life in prison without parole on Friday, following hours of harrowing testimony from his victims' grieving family…

Dec 08, 2023
White House ‘eager’ to resume military talks with China

By Jarrett Renshaw and Trevor Hunnicutt ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) -The United States and China are yet to resume the military-to-military talks their leaders agreed to at a splashy summit last month, according to the White House, which wants…

Dec 08, 2023
US FDA approves two gene therapies for sickle cell disease

By Leroy Leo and Bhanvi Satija (Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday approved two gene therapies for sickle cell disease, making one of them the first treatment in the United States based on the Nobel Prize-winning…

Dec 08, 2023
US infrastructure building boom revs up extended-stay market

By Amina Niasse NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Biden administration's infrastructure spending blitz has put more construction laborers on the road for work this year, fueling a race by extended-stay hotel operators to win their business. Data from Navan, a…

Dec 07, 2023
Trump shows up at NY civil trial as case winds down

By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Donald Trump arrived at a New York court on Thursday to attend his ongoing civil fraud trial, where his defense team is arguing that the former U.S. president's family company did not manipulate the…

Dec 07, 2023
WHO says more contaminated medicinal syrups found in new regions

By Jennifer Rigby and Shubhendu Deshmukh (Reuters) -The World Health Organization on Thursday said several contaminated syrups and suspension medicines had been identified in countries in the WHO regions of the Americas, the Eastern Mediterranean, South-East Asia and the Western…