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LONDON (Reuters) – London’s police force has failed to learn enough from its failures in a 2016 serial killer case to stop similar crimes happening again, a police watchdog said on Thursday in a damning report. The review of the case of serial killer Stephen Port, who was jailed for life for the murder of four men he met on dating websites between 2014 and 2015, said the force had […]

DUBAI (Reuters) -Iran seized a Marshall Islands-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman in international waters on Thursday, the U.S. Navy said, the latest in a series of seizures or attacks on commercial vessels in sensitive Gulf waters since 2019. Iran’s army said it had seized a Marshall Islands-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman after it collided with an Iranian boat, injuring several crewmen, Iranian state media […]

By Tim McLaughlin and Sarah N. Lynch WORCESTER, Massachusetts (Reuters) – A U.S. Air National Guardsman accused of leaking military secrets appeared in federal court on Thursday, where a judge expressed concern the 21-year-old’s knowledge of classified material might be valuable to a foreign government. “Some of the information he” is accused of taking “he actually copied,” U.S. Magistrate David Hennessy said. “If I write something, I’m going to remember […]

SOUTHAMPTON, England (Reuters) – A goal from Marcus Tavernier secured Bournemouth a 1-0 win over Southampton and pile on more misery on interim boss Ruben Selles, whose side remain rock bottom in the Premier League. Gary O’Neil’s squad leapfrogged West Ham United into 14th place with 36 points from 33 games, seven points clear of the drop zone. Southampton, who have won just six times this season and played for […]

By Andrea Shalal and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The situation in Sudan could worsen at any moment and Americans should leave within the next 24 to 48 hours, White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre said on Thursday. The administration was deeply concerned by an increase in ceasefire violations in Sudan on Wednesday, and the U.S. State Department has deployed additional consular staff, Jean-Pierre said. “The situation could deteriorate at any […]

By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Danny Werfel on Thursday said the agency will not hire any armed auditors with $80 billion in new funding, an attempt to dispel Republican assertions the IRS plans to build an “army” of 87,000 armed agents. Werfel, sworn in as the tax agency’s chief on April 4, acknowledged to a House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee hearing that the […]

By Supantha Mukherjee, Foo Yun Chee and Martin Coulter (Reuters) -Companies deploying generative AI tools, such as ChatGPT, will have to disclose any copyrighted material used to develop their systems, according to an early EU agreement that could pave the way for the world’s first comprehensive laws governing the technology. The European Commission began drafting the AI Act nearly two years ago to regulate the emerging technology, which underwent a […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – It was take-your-child-to-work day at the White House on Thursday and President Joe Biden leaped fully into the event, taking questions from inquisitive kids at a mock news conference where some revelations were made: Chocolate chip ice cream is his favorite and Top Gun Maverick his preferred movie. Biden, 80, sporting his signature aviator sunglasses (Ray Bans, he said), was escorted on to the South Lawn by […]

(Reuters) – Mastercard Inc on Thursday said the U.S. Justice Department was conducting an antitrust investigation of its U.S. debit program and competition with other payment networks. The company in a filing said it had received a civil investigative demand, the civil equivalent of a subpoena, from the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division. The filing did not specify the government’s concern beyond saying it had to do with its U.S. debit […]