By Hannah Lang, Brendan O’Brien and Lisa Richwine (Reuters) -A home reportedly belonging to Hollywood actors Leighton Meester and Adam Brody and another owned by actor Billy Crystal were among more than 1,000 buildings destroyed by wildfires raging across Los Angeles, including a blaze that started on Wednesday in the Hollywood Hills. Jamie Lee Curtis, …
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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden canceled an upcoming trip to Italy due to the wildfires in California, the White House said on Wednesday, adding that he wanted to focus on directing the full federal response to the fires. The White House announced in December that Biden would visit Italy from …
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By Dawn Chmielewski LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Foad Farid, a data scientist and engineer who lives in the Pacific Palisades, left home on Tuesday morning for an appointment in Malibu when he began receiving alerts on his phone about the approaching wildfire in the upscale Los Angeles neighborhood. Farid was unable to return home, because …
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By Amy Tennery NEW YORK (Reuters) – The United States has withheld 2024 dues payments to the World Anti-Doping Agency, the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy told Reuters on Wednesday, calling for reforms to the global sport watchdog. The move comes amid a protracted spat between the United States and WADA over …
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By Luciana Magalhaes and Ricardo Brito SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Wednesday he has been invited to the inauguration of U.S. President Donald Trump on Jan. 20 and is seeking to obtain the return of his passport, confiscated last year amid a probe into an attempted coup in 2023. Bolsonaro …
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By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United States warned on Wednesday that North Korea is benefiting from its troops fighting alongside Russia against Ukraine, gaining experience that makes Pyongyang “more capable of waging war against its neighbors.” Russia has forged closer diplomatic and military ties with North Korea since Moscow invaded Ukraine in …
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By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Freshwater environments cover about 1% of Earth’s surface while accounting for more than 10% of known species. Like many marine and terrestrial ecosystems, however, they are in distress. A new study looking at some of the denizens of freshwater habitats offers a stark illustration of this biodiversity predicament. Researchers …
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By Laila Bassam and Tom Perry BEIRUT (Reuters) -Lebanon’s parliament looks set to elect army chief Joseph Aoun head of state on Thursday, three senior political sources said, ending a presidential vacuum which has persisted since 2022 and showing the diminished sway of the Iran-backed Hezbollah. The election marks the first test of Lebanon’s power …
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By Sarah Young and Jonathan Stempel LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) -The sister of billionaire OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman filed a lawsuit accusing him of sexually abusing her regularly between 1997 and 2006, prompting him and other family members to deny her claims. In a complaint filed on Monday in St. Louis federal court, Ann Altman …
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CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan opposition parties and NGOs decried the arrests of a prominent press freedom activist and a well-known opposition figure, among others, ahead of planned protests against Friday’s inauguration of President Nicolas Maduro for his third term. The opposition Popular Will party said on X late on Tuesday that at least 19 people …
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