The Proud Boys are back. Four years after the failed effort to overturn Trump’s 2020 electoral defeat, the violent all-male extremist group that led the storming of Congress on Jan. 6, 2021, is rebuilding and regaining strength.
[1/4]A member of the far-right Proud Boys stands for a portrait before a campaign rally for former U.S. president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in Wildwood, New Jersey, May 11, 2024. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart- World
Just over a year after taking office as Manhattan District Attorney, Alvin Bragg took a career-defining gamble: charging a former U.S. president with crimes using an untested legal theory.
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Donald Trump last week became the first former president convicted of a felony, but Wall Street believes he still has a solid chance of winning the November election and is gaming out how a second term for the Republican candidate could impact markets.
A safety test scandal at Japanese automakers widened on Monday, with Toyota Motor and Mazda both halting shipments of some vehicles after Japan's transport ministry found irregularities in applications to certify certain models.
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Advanced Micro Devices unveiled its latest artificial intelligence processors on Monday and detailed its plan to develop AI chips over the next two years in a bid to challenge industry leader Nvidia .
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GameStop shares jumped 21% on Monday after "Roaring Kitty" Keith Gill, the stocks influencer behind the 2021 retail trading frenzy, returned to Reddit with a post showing a $116 million bet on the embattled videogame retailer.
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Mexico Election
Claudia Sheinbaum basked in the glow of a thumping presidential win late Sunday, thanking supporters who gathered at the capital's iconic Zocalo plaza shortly after 1 a.m. to applaud Mexico's first female president.
Presidential candidate of the ruling Morena party Claudia Sheinbaum, reacts while addressing her supporters after winning the presidential election, at Zocalo Square in Mexico City, Mexico June 3. REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini - World
Claudia Sheinbaum will become Mexico's first female president after winning a landslide election victory and promising to continue the work of her mentor and outgoing leader Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador whose help for the poor made him highly popular.
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Mexican president-elect Claudia Sheinbaum will face the unenviable task of making good on campaign promises to boost social programs even after an election-year spending binge by her predecessor lifted the budget deficit to its highest since the 1980s.
Hunter Biden Trial
Jury selection kicked off in a criminal case against Hunter Biden, a historic prosecution that could further influence the 2024 presidential election four days after Biden's rivalDonald Trump became the first former U.S. president to be convicted.
Hunter Biden, son of U.S. President Joe Biden, walks at the federal court during the opening day of his trial on criminal gun charges in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S., June 3, 2024. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz - Legal
Hunter Biden, the son of U.S. President Joe Biden, is scheduled to go on trial on June 3 in Delaware on charges he violated federal gun laws in 2018 when he purchased a firearm.
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Hunter Biden is going on trial Monday over criminal gun-related charges. Below is a look at the key moments leading up to the trial, the first for a child of a sitting president.
President Emmanuel Macron has undertaken a crackdown on what he calls Islamist separatism and radical Islam in France following deadly jihadist attacks in recent years by foreign and homegrown militants
A group of United Nations experts called on Monday for all countries to recognise a Palestinian state to ensure peace in the Middle East.
Palestinian sisters Samar and Sahar react as they search for their missing mother Amira Al-Breim at the rubble of a house hit in an Israeli strike, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, June 3, 2024. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem - World
In dozens of northern Israeli towns and villages, evacuated under fire from Lebanon's Hezbollah group in parallel with the Gaza war, officials hope daily rocket warning sirens will give way to school bells when the academic year starts on Sept 1.
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The Rafah border crossing critical to aid deliveries into Gaza from Egypt cannot operate again unless Israel relinquishes control and hands it back to Palestinians on the Gaza side, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said on Monday.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi plans a raft of business-friendly measures if he wins a third term this week, including pushing through regulations making it easier to hire and fire workers, according to two government officials familiar with the matter.
Employees assemble an electric transformer inside a manufacturing unit of Inductotherm (India) Private Limited at Sanand GIDC on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, March 28, 2024. REUTERS/Amit Dave/File Photo - Breakingviews
Exit polls in India suggest Narendra Modi's alliance will secure a third term as prime minister with a big majority. High on his to-do list will be improving incomes so that most of the country's 1.4 billion citizens are no longer poor enough to qualify for the government's free food scheme.
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India's unusually severe heatwave this summer is suspected to have killed more than 100 people and made tens of thousands ill, authorities and media reports said, while parts of the country were also battered by a recent cyclone and heavy rains.
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As the local climate has heated up over decades, rivers and lakes have also shrunk.
