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Disney bans smoking at U.S. parks ahead of 'Star Wars' openings
Walt Disney Co will ban smoking, vaping and large strollers at its U.S. theme parks in California and Florida starting on May 1, the company said on Thursday.
Trump weighs in on Smollett case as Chicago demands reimbursement
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday the Department of Justice would "review" the uproar surrounding actor Jussie Smollett, who was charged with staging a fake hate-crime attack on himself in Chicago before prosecutors abruptly dropped the ca...
Lyft valued at $24.3 billion in first ride-hailing IPO
Lyft Inc was valued at $24.3 billion in the first initial public offering (IPO) of a ride-hailing startup on Thursday, raising more than it had set off to do as investors overlooked uncertainty over its path to becoming a profitable company.
Venezuela's Fabiana Rosales, a young activist, emerges into the political spotlight
Barely two months after emerging from obscurity in her home country of Venezuela, political activist Fabiana Rosales sat in the Oval Office across from U.S. President Donald Trump in a yellow armchair normally reserved for visiting heads of state.
White House backing Puerto Rico’s oversight board: WSJ
The White House is preparing to ask the U.S. Senate to confirm the current members of Puerto Rico’s fiscal oversight board, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter.
Dissident group accused of North Korean embassy intrusion suspends operations
A shadowy dissident group accused of breaking into North Korea's embassy in Madrid last month said on Thursday it was temporarily suspending operations, after a Spanish judge issued international arrest warrants for two suspects Spanish authorit...
Trump's pick for No. 3 U.S. Justice Department post withdraws from consideration
Jessie Liu, the top federal prosecutor in Washington D.C., has withdrawn from consideration to serve as the third-ranking official in the U.S. Justice Department, a spokeswoman said on Thursday.
U.S. charges Facebook with racial discrimination in targeted housing ads
The Trump administration accused Facebook Inc on Thursday of selling targeted advertising that discriminated on the basis of race in violation of the U.S. Fair Housing Act.
U.S. calls for probe of bombing of hospital in Yemen
A U.S. State Department spokesman on Thursday called the bombing earlier this week of a Save the Children-supported hospital in Yemen "awful" and urged the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen to conduct an investigation.
U.S. senators introduce bill to stop transfer of F-35 fighters to Turkey
Four U.S. senators on Thursday introduced a bipartisan bill to prohibit the transfer of F-35 fighter aircraft to Turkey until the U.S. government certifies that Ankara will not take delivery of a Russian S-400 air defense system, a statement on the m...
Ex-coach of Yale women's soccer pleads guilty in admissions scandal
The former head coach of women's soccer at Yale University admitted on Thursday that he accepted bribes to help parents get their children into the Ivy League school, becoming the third person to plead guilty in the U.S. college admissions scand...
Dubai court restores yacht to Russia tycoon, move disputed in divorce contest
A $436 million superyacht belonging to a Russian billionaire at the center of one of the world's costliest divorce battles has been released by a Dubai court after being impounded last year, but legal wrangling over the fate of the vessel contin...
U.S. Supreme Court rebuffs bid to block Trump's gun 'bump stock' ban
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday handed President Donald Trump a victory by rejecting for the second time in three days a bid by gun rights activists to block his new ban on "bump stock" attachments that enable semi-automatic weapons to fire rapidl...
U.S. energy secretary unsure if Saudi nuclear approvals came after Khashoggi killing
U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry told lawmakers on Thursday he did not know whether any of the approvals he authorized for U.S. companies to sell nuclear power technology to Saudi Arabia were made after the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Oc...
Wall Street inches up on trade optimism but growth worries weigh
U.S. stocks edged higher on Thursday, helped by optimism over progress in U.S.-China trade talks, but concerns about an economic slowdown after a cut in fourth-quarter GDP growth limited the day's advance.
UK parliament to debate Brexit on Friday, exact format unclear
Britain's parliament will discuss a motion relating to Brexit on Friday, the government's leader in parliament Andrea Leadsom said on Thursday, but it was not yet clear whether this would result in a formal third vote on the government'...
Netanyahu uses icy relationship with Obama to try to win votes
Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu is using a second American president in his re-election campaign ads, but with a twist, featuring a famously frosty encounter with Barack Obama.
Trump, fellow Republicans want House intelligence chief Adam Schiff out
U.S. President Donald Trump and fellow Republicans in Congress urged House intelligence committee chairman Adam Schiff to resign on Thursday, drawing an unequivocal rejection from their Democratic target.
U.N. investigator calls on Saudi Arabia to open Khashoggi murder trial
Saudi Arabia's secretive hearings for 11 suspects accused in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi fall short of international standards and should be open to the public and trial observers, a U.N. human rights expert said on Thursday.
Queen spends an equestrian day in western England
Queen Elizabeth indulged her love of horse racing on Thursday with a visit to England's west country where she toured the stables of trainer Paul Nicholls.