WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden’s administration did not sanction or support secret meetings that former top U.S. national security officials held with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and other Russians on potential talks to end the Ukraine war, the White House and State Department said on Thursday. NBC News reported that the former U.S. officials…
By Rachel Nostrant (Reuters) – Florida will no longer accept driver’s licenses issued by some other U.S. states to immigrants living in the country illegally under a law signed by Governor Ron DeSantis as he seeks the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. The Florida law, which took effect on July 1, is “the strongest anti-illegal immigration…
By Mike Stone WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States plans to send cluster munitions to Ukraine to help it battle Russian invaders, U.S. officials said on Thursday, a move opposed by human rights groups but which would provide a powerful new element to Ukraine’s counteroffensive A weapons aid package that includes cluster munitions fired by a…
By James Oliphant and Jason Lange WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis raised $20 million in the second quarter of the year, his campaign said on Thursday, a sign that the Florida governor’s challenge to former President Donald Trump remains viable despite recent struggles. By comparison, Trump’s main fundraising committee took in about…
By Aditya Soni (Reuters) -Meta’s Threads racked up more than 30 million sign-ups within about 18 hours of its launch, emerging as the first real threat to Elon Musk-owned Twitter, as it took advantage of its access to billions of Instagram users and a similar look to that of its rival. Dubbed as the “Twitter-Killer”,…
By Jack Queen MIAMI (Reuters) – Donald Trump aide Walt Nauta pleaded not guilty at a Miami federal courthouse on Thursday to charges he helped the former U.S. president hide top secret documents that Trump took when he left the White House in 2021. Attorney Stanley Woodward entered the plea for Nauta at an arraignment…
(Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration on Friday is expected to propose a new regulation cracking down on short-term health insurance plans, Politico reported, citing five Democrats with knowledge of the matter. Biden is due to deliver an announcement on healthcare cost savings on Friday. A White House official told Politico on Thursday that Biden…
OTTAWA (Reuters) – U.S. and Canadian authorities issued a joint advisory on Thursday warning about a widespread increase in the use of a type of malware called Truebot to target organizations in the two countries. “Cyber threat actors are using new variants of Truebot malware to exfiltrate large amounts of sensitive information for financial gain,”…
LONDON (Reuters) -Iran’s Revolutionary Guards “forcibly seized” a commercial ship in international waters in the Gulf on Thursday and the vessel was possibly involved in smuggling, a U.S. Navy spokesperson said. The U.S. Navy had monitored the situation and decided not to make any further response, U.S. 5th Fleet spokesperson Commander Tim Hawkins said. British…
(Reuters) -Forecasters at Colorado State University for a second time raised their estimate for tropical storms during this year’s Atlantic hurricane season, citing record warm sea surface temperatures. The group had last month raised its outlook to a near-normal season and number of storms. On Thursday, it boosted its forecast to 18 named storms, producing…
