BRASILIA | Mon May 20, 2013 9:29pm EDT BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said on Monday she ordered the Federal Police to investigate the source of a rumor that sent thousands of poor [...]

By Tabassum Zakaria and Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON | Mon May 20, 2013 9:35pm EDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama’s administration has decided to give the Pentagon control of some drone operations [...]

By Tetsushi Kajimoto TOKYO | Mon May 20, 2013 10:48pm EDT TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s exports are expected to have risen in April from a year earlier for a second straight month led by U.S.-bound shipments [...]

By David Henry TAMPA, Florida | Tue May 21, 2013 12:14am EDT TAMPA, Florida (Reuters) – As final ballots come in on a proposal to strip JPMorgan Chase Co Chairman and Chief Executive Jamie Dimon of his chairman [...]

By John Whitesides WASHINGTON | Tue May 21, 2013 1:03am EDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Senate panel will try on Tuesday to pry more details out of current and former officials of the Internal Revenue Service [...]

By Alexei Oreskovic and Jennifer Saba SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK | Tue May 21, 2013 1:41am EDT SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Yahoo Inc will buy blogging service Tumblr for $1.1 billion cash, giving the Internet [...]

By David Morgan WASHINGTON | Tue May 21, 2013 4:06am EDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) – With the White House already reeling from three major controversies, some Republican lawmakers are zeroing in on what they perceive [...]

MOSCOW | Tue May 21, 2013 4:09am EDT MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian security forces killed two suspected militants in the North Caucasus during a night-time sweep in the region plagued by an Islamist insurgency, [...]

By Alice Mannette and Ian Simpson MOORE, Oklahoma | Tue May 21, 2013 4:26am EDT MOORE, Oklahoma (Reuters) – At least 91 people, including 20 children, were feared killed when a 2 mile wide tornado tore through [...]

JERUSALEM | Tue May 21, 2013 5:39am EDT JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli troops shot at a target across the Syrian frontier on Tuesday in response to gunfire that struck its forces in the Golan Heights, the Israeli [...]

CARACAS | Sun May 19, 2013 11:00pm EDT CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s recent designation of an acting head of its diplomatic mission in the United States shows the OPEC nation’s desire to restore [...]

By Kristen Hays and Jonathan Leff HOUSTON/NEW YORK | Mon May 20, 2013 12:09am EDT HOUSTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – For the past three years, the boom in the U.S. shale oil industry has outstripped all expectations. [...]

By Ernest Scheyder WATFORD CITY, North Dakota | Mon May 20, 2013 12:48am EDT WATFORD CITY, North Dakota (Reuters) – In towns across North Dakota, the wellhead of the North American energy boom, the locals have [...]

By Nichola Groom LOS ANGELES | Mon May 20, 2013 1:05am EDT LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – In October 2004, then California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger rolled up to a pioneering fueling station at Los Angeles International [...]

By Jason Lange and David Lawder WASHINGTON | Mon May 20, 2013 1:15am EDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The chances of a deal between Democratic and Republican lawmakers that would overhaul the tax system, trim government [...]

By Tetsushi Kajimoto and Izumi Nakagawa TOKYO | Mon May 20, 2013 2:15am EDT TOKYO (Reuters) – The Japanese government upgraded its assessment of the economy on Monday, as emerging signs of an upturn in exports [...]

By Frank Jack Daniel NEW DELHI | Mon May 20, 2013 2:54am EDT NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Chinese Premier Li Keqiang is seeking to build trust with India on his first foreign trip since taking office, which comes [...]

By Chris Francescani Mon May 20, 2013 2:07am EDT (Reuters) – A massive storm front swept north through the central United States on Sunday, hammering the region with fist-sized hail, blinding rain and tornadoes, including [...]

ISLAMABAD | Mon May 20, 2013 3:16am EDT ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Cricket hero Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf party won a revote in an upmarket constituency of Karachi on Sunday, unofficial results [...]

By James Pomfret and Matthew Miller ZHUHAI, China/HONG KONG | Sun May 19, 2013 4:59pm EDT ZHUHAI, China/HONG KONG (Reuters) – In an underground mall just a stone’s throw from China’s teeming border [...]