(Reuters Health) – Women who breathe polluted air during pregnancy may be more likely to have children who develop high blood pressure, a U.S. study suggests. Researchers focused on what’s known as fine particulate matter, or PM 2.5, a mixture of solid particl... More »
(Reuters Health) – A growing number of American parents are using marijuana when they still have children living at home, according to a new study that suggests cannabis may be complicating efforts to limit kids’ exposure to second-hand smoke. Researchers exam... More »
(Reuters) – Many restaurants, supermarkets, convenience stores and movie theaters across the United States are required starting on Monday to clearly display food calorie counts as part of a push to trim expanding American waistlines and control healthcare cos... More »
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) – The Republican-controlled Oklahoma legislature approved an adoption measure on Thursday that critics say discriminates against same-sex couples, non-Christians and single parents. The bill would allow faith-based adoption agencies, in... More »
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – A sexual abuse scandal is engulfing Brazilian gymnastics this week as a former national coach has come under investigation for allegedly abusing dozens of boys. The scandal in Brazil follows the sentencing of former USA Gymnastics team do... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – British scientists have developed a far more accurate blood test to diagnose peanut allergy, offering a better way to monitor a significant food hazard. Peanuts are the most common cause of fatal food-induced anaphylaxis, or severe allergic ... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – In London’s world-famous Great Ormond Street children’s hospital, Dr. Karin Straathof is excited about a new cell-based medicine that offers hope for toddlers with incurable nerve tissue cancer. Her progress with a handful of children for wh... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – The father of gravely ill Alfie Evans, the 23-month-old boy whose plight has drawn international attention, said on Thursday he wanted to build bridges with staff at the British hospital he has been battling in the courts over his son’s trea... More »
HAMBURG (Reuters) – Germany’s food industry must label unhealthy products more clearly, the country’s new agriculture and consumer protection minister said on Thursday. “About 15 percent of our children and young people are overweight, about 17 billion euros (... More »
(Reuters) – Nearly 207 million eggs from a farm in North Carolina are being recalled from nine U.S. states after 22 people fell ill, the federal Food and Drug Administration has said. It is the largest recall of eggs in the United States since 2010, the Food S... More »
OKLAHOMA CITY/TULSA, Okla. (Reuters) – High school physics teacher Craig Hoxie filed to run for Oklahoma’s House of Representatives on Friday, a day after the end of a two-week teacher walkout that had pressed lawmakers for school funding. “A week ago, I would... More »
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (Reuters) – A woman who is at the center of the case against Bill Cosby is expected to take the stand on Friday in a Pennsylvania courtroom, where she previously accused the comedian of drugging and sexually assaulting her more than a decade ag... More »
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (Reuters) – Former supermodel Janice Dickinson testified on Thursday that Bill Cosby drugged and raped her at a Lake Tahoe home in 1982, a story similar to those of other alleged victims called as witnesses in the comedian’s sexual assault retr... More »
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Reality television star Khloe Kardashian gave birth to her first child on Thursday, according to U.S. media reports, after years of documenting her fertility struggles on her family’s U.S. television show “Keeping Up with the Kardashian... More »
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Trump administration took additional steps to weaken Obamacare on Monday, allowing U.S. states to relax the rules on what insurers must cover and giving states more power to regulate their individual insurance markets. The Centers fo... More »
(Editors’ note: Story contains details that some readers may find upsetting) By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Seven people employed by the sex ad website Backpage.com, including its founders Michael Lacey and James Larkin, were charged in a 93-count in... More »
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Hockey sticks were being left on the doorsteps across Canada on Monday in a poignant tribute to 15 youth players and personnel killed in a bus crash. Hundreds of photos of hockey sticks – propped beside front doors and on porches – have appe... More »
KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) – Pakistan launched a nationwide polio vaccination drive this week to reach 38.7 million children and eradicate the paralyzing and potentially deadly virus in one of the last countries where it is endemic. Nearly 260,000 volunteers ... More »
(Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Monday slapped restrictions on the sale of Bayer AG’s implanted birth control device Essure, two years after the agency put a severe warning label on the product. The FDA said here some women were not ... More »
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Floods caused by a tropical cyclone that brought torrential weekend rains to the Pacific island nation of Fiji have killed four people, with another presumed drowned, a disaster management official said on Monday. Tropical Cyclone Josie, a c... More »
(Reuters) – A public relations firm billed Michigan State University for more than $500,000 for January as it tracked social-media activity surrounding the case of convicted physician Larry Nassar that often included the accounts of his sexual assault victims ... More »
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (Reuters) – The search for life’s sweetest but most elusive treasure – happiness – brings nearly 1,200 Yale University undergraduates twice a week into an enormous hall on the Connecticut school’s campus for its most popular class ever. “Psych... More »
Kachalla Bukar, father of Aisha Kachalla, a missing student of Government Girls Science and Technical College, holds a dress of her daughter in Dapchi, in the northeastern state of Yobe, Nigeria, February 23, 2018. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde DAPCHI, Nigeria (Reut... More »
U.S. President Donald Trump meets with bi-partisan members of Congress to discuss school and community safety in the wake of the Florida school shootings at the White House in Washington, U.S., February 28, 2018. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque WASHINGTON (Reuters) – R... More »
FILE PHOTO: Keith Richards (L) and Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones pose as the band arrives for the opening of the new exhibit “Exhibitionism: The Rolling Stones” in the Manhattan borough of New York City, U.S., November 15, 2016. REUTERS/Mike Segar LOS ANGE... More »
Florida Governor Rick Scott listens during a meeting with law enforcement, mental health, and education officials about how to prevent future tragedies in the wake of last week’s mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, at the Capitol in Tallahas... More »
FILE PHOTO: A resident holds the hand of a nurse at the SenVital elderly home in Kleinmachnow outside Berlin May 28, 2013. REUTERS/Thomas Peter NEW YORK (Reuters) – Amanda Singer had her plate full running a dance studio in Massachusetts. But after her mother ... More »
A senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School weeps in front of a cross and Star of David for shooting victim Meadow Pollack while a fellow classmate consoles her at a memorial by the school in Parkland, Florida, U.S. February 18, 2018. REUTERS/Jonathan Dra... More »
U.S. President Donald Trump meets with law enforcement at the Broward County Sheriff’s Office in the wake of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, U.S., February 16, 2018. REUTERS/Eric Thayer WASHINGTON (Reuters) – P... More »
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein talks to reporters in Jakarta, Indonesia February 7, 2018. REUTERS/Beawiharta GENEVA (Reuters) – The top United Nations human rights official called on Iran on Friday to halt executions of young peo... More »
Dietrich Garstka, who fled former Communist East as a schoolboy and inspired the film ‘Das schweigende Klassenzimmer’ which is due to premiere at the Berlinale film festival, gesticulates during an interview with Reuters in Essen, Germany, February 9, 2018. RE... More »
Adults who get a flu shot are 36 percent less likely to get the disease, while for children the figure was an unexpectedly high 59 percent, U.S. health officials said on Thursday, predicting that the current "intense" season could continue for weeks. More »
FILE PHOTO – A visitor takes a picture of the Instagram application logo at the Young Entrepreneurs fair in Paris, France, February 7, 2018. REUTERS/Charles Platiau NEW YORK (Reuters) – Jessica Jones, 26, jokes that when she wants to spend more money, she goes... More »
FILE PHOTO: The Armani logo is seen on an outlet store in Metzingen, Germany, June 16, 2017. REUTERS/Michaela Rehle TOKYO (Reuters) – A public elementary school in Tokyo’s upscale shopping district of Ginza has raised parents’ eyebrows with a plan to adopt uni... More »
FILE PHOTO: The Armani logo is seen on an outlet store in Metzingen, Germany, June 16, 2017. REUTERS/Michaela Rehle TOKYO (Reuters) – A public elementary school in Tokyo’s upscale shopping district of Ginza has raised parents’ eyebrows with a plan to adopt uni... More »
FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump, flanked by U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL), listens during a bipartisan meeting with legislators on immigration reform at the White House in Washington, U.S. January 9, 2018. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo WASHINGTON... More »
Emergency room nurse Christine Bauer treats Joshua Lagade of Vista, California, for the flu as his girlfriend Mayra Mora looks on in the emergency room at Palomar Medical Center in Escondido, California, U.S., January 18, 2018. REUTERS/Mike Blake (Reuters) – T... More »
Gedderts Twistars USA Gymnastics Club is seen in Dimondale, Michigan, U.S., February 1, 2018. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook LANSING, Mich. (Reuters) – Gymnastics coach Jamie Boyd-Hamilton is painfully questioning everything that once seemed normal in the Michigan commu... More »
Meridian Township Police Chief Dave Hall and Twsp Manager Frank Walsh publicly apologize to assault victim Brianne Randall-Gay (on video conference screen) for failing to properly investigate her 2004 allegations against Larry Nassar, a former team USA Gymnast... More »
FILE PHOTO – Businessman David Koch arrives at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Gala Benefit celebrating the opening of “Charles James: Beyond Fashion” in Upper Manhattan, New York May 5, 2014. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri/File Photo INDIAN WELLS, Cal... More »
FILE PHOTO: Larry Nassar, a former team USA Gymnastics doctor, who pleaded guilty in November 2017 to sexual assault charges, returns from a break to listen to victim testimony in the courtroom during his sentencing hearing in Lansing, Michigan, U.S., January ... More »
A homeless person is flu vaccinated as she registered to enter as transitional camp area for homeless people at the city’s works yard in San Diego, California, U.S., October 9, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Blake CHICAGO (Reuters) – Flu continues to be widespread across ... More »
A woman protests to call for a new DREAM Act to replace DACA in Los Angeles, California U.S. January 17, 2018. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said he believed some Republicans lawmakers who have taken tough stances on... More »
Larry Nassar, a former team USA Gymnastics doctor, who pleaded guilty in November 2017 to sexual assault charges, is led from the courtroom after listening to victim testimony during his sentencing hearing in Lansing, Michigan, U.S., January 23, 2018. REUTERS/... More »
DUBLIN (Reuters) – A majority of Irish voters would support a proposal to allow abortion up to 12 weeks into a pregnancy in a referendum due in the coming months, the first major national poll on the question showed on Friday. The government has pledged to hol... More »
U.S. President Donald Trump waves as he arrives in Zurich, Switzerland January 25, 2018. REUTERS/Carlos Barria WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump is offering a path to citizenship for up to 1.8 million young illegal immigrants but insists on me... More »
CHICAGO (Reuters) – An Illinois lawmaker on Thursday proposed a bill that would ban tackle football in youth sports before age 12, one day after a similar bill was reintroduced in New York. Both measures highlighted the sport’s growing brain injury concerns ah... More »
Protesters calling for an immigration bill addressing the so-called Dreamers, young adults who were brought to the United States as children, walk through the Hart Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., January 16, 2018. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts WA... More »
U.S. Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) arrives for the weekly Republican party caucus luncheon at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S. January 17, 2018. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican U.S. Senator Tom Cotton, a leading conservative voice on i... More »
FILE PHOTO: Signs are placed around a neighborhood as county vector control hand-spray a for adult Aedes mosquitoes after a travel-related case of Zika was confirmed in this the area of San Diego, California, U.S. September 12, 2016. REUTERS/Mike Blake CHICAGO... More »
A student sits in a hallway as he looks through a text book in Chicago, Illinois February 14, 2013. REUTERS/Jim Young CHICAGO (Reuters) – Uncle Sam has given families the green light to use $10,000 per child each year to pay for private schools out of 529 savi... More »
Birds fly over the White House in Washington, U.S., on the second day of Government shutdown, January 21, 2018. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas (Reuters) – U.S. lawmakers struggled on Sunday to reach a breakthrough during the second day of a government shutdown. If Republ... More »
A general view of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia September 30, 2014. REUTERS/Tami Chappell/File Photo CHICAGO (Reuters) – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will continue its work tracking one ... More »
FILE PHOTO: Socialite Kim Kardashian arrives at Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Gala in New York City, U.S, May 1, 2017 REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/File Photo LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – And the name is …. Chicago West. Kim Kardashian’s new baby daughter wi... More »
Visitors are seen at the exhibition “What Were You Wearing?” that showcases the stories of U.S. student rape victims through representations of the outfits they wore during their assault, in the Brussels district of Molenbeek, Belgium January 16, 2018. REUTERS... More »
A vehicle of the Russian Emergencies Ministry is parked near a local school after reportedly several unidentified people wearing masks injured schoolchildren with knives in the city of Perm, Russia January 15, 2018. REUTERS/Maksim Kimerling MOSCOW (Reuters) – ... More »
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks as he and House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy arrive for dinner at Trump’s golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., January 14, 2018. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump i... More »
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks upon arrival for dinner at his golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., January 14, 2018. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque The following statements were posted to the verified Twitter accounts of U.S. President Donald Trump, @realD... More »
FILE PHOTO: Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipient Gloria Mendoza participates in a demonstration in support of “clean” legislation in New York, U.S., January 10, 2018. Picture taken January 10, 2018. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson (Reuters) – U.S. imm... More »
An employee walks in front of the Celia dairy company’s infant milk factory, which is part of the Lactalis Group, in Craon, western France, January 12, 2018. REUTERS/Stephane Mahe PARIS (Reuters) – France welcomed dairy group Lactalis’ pledge to compensate vic... More »
U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday rejected a bipartisan "Dreamer" immigration plan proposed by a group of U.S. senators, saying it did not properly fund his long-touted wall along the southern border with Mexico and calling it "a step backward." More »
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators on Thursday reached a tentative agreement on legislation to protect young "Dreamer" immigrants from deportation, along with other immigration policy changes, and is attempting to build support for the deal in Congress. More »
Graduating seniors line up to receive their diplomas during Commencement at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, U.S., May 26, 2017. REUTERS/Brian Snyder (The Jan. 10 story was refiled to clarify description of Sallie Mae as a student loan lender ins... More »
Film director Roman Polanski arrives at the Madeleine Church to attend a ceremony during a ‘popular tribute’ to late French singer and actor Johnny Hallyday in Paris, France, December 9, 2017. REUTERS/Charles Platiau (Reuters) – Prosecutors in Los Angeles said... More »
BERLIN (Reuters) – A transsexual woman who used sperm she had banked prior to her sex change to have a baby with her female partner cannot be legally registered as the child’s mother, Germany’s highest civil and criminal court ruled on Thursday. The Federal Co... More »
FILE PHOTO: Detainees sleep in a holding cell at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection processing facility, in Brownsville, Texas June 18, 2014. REUTERS/Eric Gay/Pool/File Photo NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department has issued new guidelines for immi... More »
FILE PHOTO: The U.S. Capitol building is lit at dusk ahead of planned votes on tax reform in Washington, U.S., December 18, 2017. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts/File Photo WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Congress on Thursday averted a government shutdown just one day ... More »
(Reuters) – The U.S. Congress on Thursday approved a temporary funding bill to prevent federal agencies from shutting down at midnight Friday when existing money was set to expire. The following are the major items that were debated on the legislation that Pre... More »
FILE PHOTO: 70th Cannes Film Festival – Model Petra Nemcova poses on the red carpet prior to the screening of the film “Nelyubov” (Loveless) in Cannes, France, May 18, 2017. REUTERS/Stephane Mahe/File Photo NEW YORK (Reuters) – If Petra Nemcova’s life were a m... More »
A man walks the campus of the City College of New York in the Harlem borough of New York, U.S., December 16, 2017. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz NEW YORK (Reuters) – In the lead-up to the conference agreement for the U.S. Tax Cut & Jobs Act released on Friday, there w... More »
FILE PHOTO: Actor Dustin Hoffman poses at the 70th Cannes Film Festival’s amfAR Cinema Against AIDS 2017 event in Antibes, France, May 25, 2017. REUTERS/Stephane Mahe/File Photo LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Three more women have accused Oscar-winning actor Dustin H... More »
FILE PHOTO: Former USA Gymnastics’ team physician Larry Nassar poses in this handout photo received November 10, 2017. Department of Attorney General/Handout via REUTERS (Reuters) – A federal judge on Thursday sentenced Larry Nassar, the former USA Gymnastics ... More »
A parent is surrounded by members of the media outside the kindergarten run by pre-school operator RYB Education Inc being investigated by China’s police, in Beijing, China November 24, 2017. REUTERS/Jason Lee BEIJING (Reuters) – Police in China are investigat... More »
Cast member Anthony Gonzalez poses for a portrait while promoting the animated movie “Coco” in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., November 11, 2017. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Who lives, who dies, who tells your story? In “Coco,” Disney-Pixar’... More »
When Brian K. Vaughan was approached by Marvel Comics to write a comic book to bring in new readers, he hit on the idea of "Runaways," the story of a diverse group of teenage friends whose bond grows stronger when they make a gruesome discovery. More »
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell led a chorus of establishment Republicans on Monday urging Roy Moore, the party's Senate candidate in Alabama, to quit the race as a fifth woman came forward with allegations Moore had sexual contact with teenage gir... More »
President Donald Trump on Monday said he is nominating former pharmaceutical executive and industry lobbyist Alex Azar to serve as U.S. Health and Human Services secretary, saying Azar would push to lower the price of medicines. More »
Almost every country in the world now has serious nutrition problems, either due to over-eating leading to obesity or a lack of food leading to undernutrition, according to a major study published on Saturday. More »
The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday approved legislation to continue a federal insurance program for millions of lower-income children and pregnant women, but with an ongoing funding battle it could be weeks before the program gets more money. More »
A seven-year-old girl who ran away from her parents managed to take a train to Geneva airport and board a plane despite having no ticket. More »
Annual deaths from measles dropped below 100,000 worldwide last year for the first time, to 90,000, the World Health Organization (WHO) and other international agencies said on Thursday. More »
GlaxoSmithKline's gene therapy for the so-called "bubble boy" disease was approved by Britain's healthcare cost watchdog NICE, despite a price tag of almost 600,000 euros ($700,000). More »
Retailer Meijer Inc said it was recalling packaged vegetables in six U.S. states because of possible contamination from Listeria monocytogenes bacteria, which can cause fatal food poisoning in young children, pregnant women and elderly or frail people. More »
U.S. President Donald Trump, who pledged to help protect young people known as "Dreamers" brought illegally to the United States as children, called on Sunday for money to fund a border wall to be part of any immigration deal. More »
Congressional Democrats rejected President Donald Trump's requests on Sunday that renewed protection for "Dreamers" - people brought illegally to the United States as children - include funding for a border wall and money for thousands more immigration officer... More »
A son of the late actress and humanitarian Audrey Hepburn on Thursday sued a children's charity bearing her name to stop it from putting the Hepburn name on a wide array of clothing, handbags, portraits, umbrellas and other items. More »
U.S. Republican Representative Tim Murphy will resign from Congress on Oct. 21, House Speaker Paul Ryan said on Thursday, following a report alleging that Murphy had asked a woman with whom he was having an affair to get an abortion. More »
President Donald Trump is discussing border security and other measures that the White House wants to see included in an immigration bill during a dinner with Republican lawmakers on Monday, an administration official said. More »
President Donald Trump and top aides have urged conservative Republicans in Congress to craft legislation protecting "Dreamers" brought illegally to the United States as children, a move that could jeopardize efforts to work with Democrats on the issue. More »
Kim Kardashian has confirmed reports that she and husband Kanye West are having a third baby, with the couple expected to use a surrogate for the birth. More »
U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos was confronted by largely silent protesters holding signs opposing the Trump administration's promotion of for-profit schools and changes to how colleges handle sex assault allegations at a speech at Harvard University on T... More »
Former Illinois U.S. congressman Mel Reynolds was found guilty in federal court on Thursday for failing to file federal income tax returns, marking the latest legal trouble for the one-time Democratic Party rising star. More »
A San Diego children's hospital unveiled a collection of remote controlled luxury mini cars on Tuesday that allow its young patients to 'drive' themselves to the operating room. More »
The Manchester music venue where a suicide bomber killed 22 people as they left an Ariana Grande concert in May will reopen on Saturday for the first time since the attack. More »
A former top security official who helped put in place a program protecting people brought to the United States illegally as children, is suing the Trump White House as head of the University of California system over plans to roll back the policy. More »
Days after President Donald Trump's decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, Mayara Pena still has a lot of unanswered questions. One of them is about her cars. More »
The following statements were posted to the verified Twitter accounts of U.S. President Donald Trump, @realDonaldTrump and @POTUS. The opinions expre More »
The condition called lazy eye has long been considered untreatable in adults, but a clinic in Slovakia says a treatment does exist, and it's simple as child's play - literally. More »
Ely Bowman, like most four-year olds, is a bundle of energy. He spends his days riding his toy car though the backyard of his Irvine, California, home, bowling with his pint-size ball and pins, and dancing under his bedroom disco ball. More »
New York and Washington state on Monday vowed to sue President Donald Trump if he scraps a program shielding from deportation immigrants who came to the United States illegally as children. More »
