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VATICAN CITY — Lights, camera, action, pope? About three dozen Hollywood stars will meet Pope Leo this weekend, including actors Cate Blanchett, Chris Pine and Adam Scott, the Vatican said on Monday. Also joining a special audience at the Vatican with Leo, the first pope from the United States, will...

BOSTON - The availability of food aid for 42 million low-income Americans this month remained in question on Monday as legal wrangling over the benefits continued even as lawmakers take steps toward ending the record-long federal government shutdown. A series of legal victories and setbacks for nonprofits and Democratic-led states...

TRIPOLI — Hannibal Gaddafi, youngest son of Libya’s late leader Muammar Gaddafi, was released on Monday after almost a decade of detention without trial in Lebanon over the disappearance of a Shi’ite Muslim cleric, Lebanon’s National News Agency said. Gaddafi was abducted in 2015 by militants in Syria, where he...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump demanded air traffic controllers return to work on Monday as government-directed flight cuts and air traffic staffing absences continue to wreak havoc with U.S. air travel. Trump added that he will reward those who did not take any time off during the 41-day federal government...

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected on Monday a bid by a former Kentucky county official to overturn its landmark 2015 ruling legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide, as the justices steered clear of the contentious case some 3½ years after its conservative majority reversed abortion rights. The court, which has a 6-3...

BEIJING - FBI Director Kash Patel visited China last week to discuss fentanyl and law enforcement issues, two people familiar with his trip said, following a summit of the U.S. and Chinese leaders where both hailed “consensus” on the matter. A person briefed on Patel’s trip said the director of...

PARIS -Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was freed from jail and went home on Monday, after a Paris court ruled he could be released while he appeals against his conviction for conspiring to raise funds from Libya. Sarkozy was sent to prison on October 21 after he was found guilty...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court will decide whether mailed ballots must be received by Election Day and not just postmarked by then, agreeing to review the Republican Party’s so-far successful challenge to a Mississippi law that could affect similar rules in many other states. In asking the court to hear...

BOSTON — A federal appeals court late Sunday allowed a judge’s order to stand that directs President Donald Trump’s administration to fully fund this month’s food aid benefits for 42 million low-income Americans during the ongoing U.S. government shutdown. The Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined to halt...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court is due Monday to hear arguments in a Rastafarian man’s bid to sue state prison officials in Louisiana after guards held him down and shaved him bald in violation of his religious beliefs in a case brought under a federal law protecting incarcerated people...

LONDON — The BBC’s boss and its head of news quit on Sunday following accusations of bias at the British broadcaster, including in the way it edited a speech by President Donald Trump. The BBC had been under mounting pressure after an internal report by a former standards adviser was...

SAN FRANCISCO — Police were investigating on Sunday after five people were wounded, one seriously, in a weekend shooting outside a supermarket in San Francisco, authorities said. Officers responding to reports of gunfire around 9 p.m. Saturday found multiple victims near a Safeway in the Outer Richmond neighborhood, according to...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate on Sunday moved forward on a measure aimed at reopening the federal government and ending a now 40-day shutdown that has sidelined federal workers, delayed food aid and snarled air travel. In a procedural vote, senators advanced a House-passed bill that will be amended to...

CHICAGO — Large swaths of the U.S. prepared for one of the season’s first blasts of wintry weather Sunday as temperatures dipped and snow fell in the Northern Plains, snowstorms developed eastward across the Great Lakes and the South prepared for a big chill. Flurries fell Sunday across parts of...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Agriculture directed states to roll back any steps taken to issue full food aid benefits to low-income Americans or risk financial penalties. The new guidance issued late on Saturday follows a U.S. Supreme Court order on Friday that allowed the Trump administration to continue...

Travelers across the United States scrambled to reach their destinations as thousands of flights were delayed or canceled on Sunday, the third day of government-mandated flight cuts at 40 high-traffic airports during the ongoing shutdown. As of 10 p.m. on Sunday, more than 10,000 flights within, into, or out of...

JERUSALEM — U.S. President Donald Trump’s influential son-in-law, Jared Kushner, arrived in Israel on Sunday for talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on implementing the U.S. plan to end the Gaza war, a source familiar with the matter said. Kushner was expected to meet with Netanyahu on Monday, said the...

FRANKFURT - Carmakers have received their first deliveries of chips from Chinese-owned semiconductor manufacturer Nexperia after a supply outage, Volkswagen’s China chief told German daily Handelsblatt. The Dutch government had seized control of Nexperia, which is based in the Netherlands, on September 30 as part of a broader U.S.-Chinese trade...

ZURICH — Switzerland could be close to winning a respite from the 39% tariffs imposed by the United States on imports of its goods, the newspaper Blick reported on Sunday, after a visit by business leaders to President Donald Trump helped thaw relations. A letter of intent to break the...

CAIRO - Israel on Sunday received the remains of a deceased hostage held in Gaza that Palestinian militant group Hamas said were of an Israeli soldier killed in the territory more than a decade ago. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said in a statement the remains were handed over to...

JERUSALEM — An Israeli government spokesperson said on Sunday that Turkish soldiers would not be deployed to Gaza as part of a multinational force that is meant to take over from the Israeli military. “There will be no Turkish boots on the ground,” spokesperson Shosh Bedrosian told reporters in response...

Six young manatees being cared for at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium are preparing to return to Florida to complete their rehabilitation and eventual release back into the wild. Zoo officials announced on social media Nov. 8 that the manatees — named Cobble, Clawford, Sabal, Vora, Lilypad and Orchid —...

President Donald Trump unlawfully ordered National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon, a federal judge ruled Friday in a legal setback to the administration’s use of the military in American cities. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut is the first to permanently block Trump’s use of military force to...

From federal paychecks to public benefits, the longest U.S. government shutdown in history is cutting lifelines for millions of Americans, many of whom voted for President Donald Trump. But conversations with five Trump voters – part of a group of 20 whom Reuters has interviewed monthly since February – show...