(Reuters) — Former Minneapolis police officer Tou Thao was sentenced on Monday to 4-3/4 years in prison for aiding and abetting manslaughter in the 2020 killing of George Floyd, a Black man whose neck was pinned to the ground by another officer's knee during a botched arrest.

(Reuters) — Payments giant PayPal said on Monday it has launched a U.S. dollar stable coin, becoming the first major financial technology firm to embrace digital currencies for payments and transfers.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. government offices in the Washington area closed early on Monday due to approaching thunderstorms as people across the eastern U.S. were warned of possible tornadoes, damaging wind and large hailstones before the end of the day.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — A U.S. government watchdog is reviewing how long Democratic President Joe Biden's pick for labor secretary, Julie Su, can serve as the department's acting secretary without Senate confirmation, a spokesperson said on Monday, following an inquiry by a Republican lawmaker.

ATLANTA (Reuters) — Law-enforcement officers surrounded the Fulton County courthouse on Monday in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, amid closed roads and traffic barriers put up to boost security ahead of a possible indictment of former U.S. President Donald Trump.

NEW YORK (Reuters) — A new study is raising fresh questions about the value of breast cancer screening in older women, finding that those 70 and older who underwent mammograms were more apt to be diagnosed with tumors posing no threat to their health than those who did not screen.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Major U.S. airlines on Monday asked the Federal Aviation Administration to extend cuts to minimum flight requirements at congested New York City-area airports and a Washington airport, citing a lack of adequate air traffic control staffing.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — President Joe Biden's administration will announce $200 million of new weapons aid for Ukraine as soon as Tuesday, U.S. officials told Reuters, as it begins to dole out $6.2 billion of funds discovered after a Pentagon accounting error over-valued billions of Ukraine a…

(Reuters) — Donald Trump plans to attend the upcoming Iowa State Fair but will skip events with other Republican presidential candidates, an aide to the former president said on Monday, a move likely designed to steal the limelight from his White House rivals.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — As Kenneth Polite steps down this month as the head of the U.S. Department of Justice's Criminal Division, he will leave behind a flurry of major corporate settlements that he told Reuters in an exit interview will hit federal court dockets soon.

NEW YORK (Reuters) — A federal judge on Monday put on hold a predatory lending lawsuit against Credit Acceptance Corp by the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and New York Attorney General Letitia James, over objections from both regulators.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Former Republican Vice President Mike Pence on Sunday did not rule out being a prosecution witness if his ex-boss Donald Trump goes to trial on charges of orchestrating a criminal conspiracy to try to reverse his defeat in the 2020 presidential election.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Two dozen Democrats of the U.S. House of Representatives will visit Israel and the occupied West Bank this week to discuss prospects for a two-state solution and Israel's judicial reforms, among other issues.

(Reuters) — U.S. scientists have achieved net energy gain in a fusion reaction for the second time since December, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory said on Sunday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The U.S. Army on Friday became the second branch of the U.S. military to no longer have a Senate-confirmed leader, as a Republican senator continues to block military nominations, a move military leaders said threatens readiness and undermines retention of officers.

NEW YORK (Reuters) — Thousands of people overran New York City's Union Square and the surrounding streets on Friday in a chaotic scene after a popular live streamer announced a "giveaway" event, with police struggling to contain fans throwing projectiles and injuring officers.

(Reuters) — President Joe Biden is expected to issue his long-awaited executive order to screen outbound investments in sensitive technologies to China early next week, according to people familiar with the matter.

(Reuters) — Gunfire rang out again at Florida's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Friday, this time as part of a reenactment of the shooting five years ago that killed 14 students and three faculty members.

(Reuters) — JPMorgan's chief economist said on Friday the bank is no longer forecasting a U.S. recession this year and has raised its economic growth estimate as the economy expands at a "healthy pace."

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The judge in former U.S. President Donald Trump's upcoming trial over his handling of classified documents made two errors in a June trial, including one that potentially violated the defendant's constitutional rights and could have invalidated the proceedings, accordi…

NEW YORK (Reuters) — A New York State Supreme Court judge on Friday ordered the city of New York to spell out what it needs from the state to solve its migrant housing crisis, ratcheting up pressure on authorities struggling to respond as thousands of migrants seek refuge in the city.

(Reuters) — A divided federal appeals court on Friday ruled that Mississippi cannot strip the right to vote from thousands of convicts after they complete their sentences, calling that a "cruel and unusual punishment" that disproportionately affected Black people.

The mess of flight disruptions that have come to characterize the aviation industry over the past couple of years promises to persist for as long as a decade, according to a CBS News investigative report.

LOS ANGELES — It seemed like any other night. Silverio Lujan's teenage daughter was distant and listless. Then, before he knew it, she had a fistful of pills and a knife in her hand and threatened to end her life.

PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia Eagles offensive lineman Josh Sills was acquitted Friday of raping and kidnapping a young woman and former high school classmate in his Ohio hometown.

As a child-size mannequin stands in a traffic lane on a rural two-lane road, a Tesla in Full Self-Driving mode barrels toward it. At the wheel: a giant teddy bear. The car's driver monitoring system doesn't issue any warnings. The front end whacks the mannequin, sending it flying into the ai…

LOS ANGELES — Drawn by a message on the WeChat app, the Chinese immigrants lined up for free bags of leafy greens that volunteers handed out from a battered minivan in a Monterey Park parking lot.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Two U.S. Navy sailors have been arrested on charges of handing over sensitive national security material to China, U.S. officials said Thursday.

RUMFORD, Maine (Reuters) — U.S. Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough urged veterans across the country to apply by Wednesday to get an extra year of retroactive benefits under a new law passed last year to aid veterans sickened by gases from military toxic burn pits.

NEW YORK (Reuters) — A former National Basketball Association player was sentenced on Thursday to 10 years in prison after leading a "brazen" scheme involving at least 19 players to defraud a league health plan into paying millions of dollars for bogus medical procedures, federal prosecutors said.

(Reuters) — The former head of one of New York City's police unions was sentenced to two years in federal prison on Thursday on a fraud charge in which prosecutors accused him of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from the association.

(Reuters) — U.S. Senate Democrats on Thursday pushed back against Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's recent public comments rejecting the ability of Congress to regulate the justices' ethics, urging his recusal in any cases concerning legislation on the subject.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Eager to witness U.S. history in person, members of the public lined up at a Washington federal courthouse on Thursday to observe President Donald Trump's arraignment on charges of 2020 election interference.

MOJAVE NATIONAL PRESERVE, California (Reuters) — The largest wildfire in California so far this year has burned precious Joshua trees, a prominent cultural symbol once vital for indigenous people to weave into baskets and sandals and still an important part of the Mojave Desert ecosystem.

(Reuters) — Florida has told school superintendents that the Advanced Placement psychology course offered to high school students violates the state's new law prohibiting instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity, effectively banning the class, the nonprofit that develops the cou…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Donald Trump pleaded not guilty on Thursday to charges he orchestrated a plot to try to overturn his 2020 election loss in what U.S. prosecutors call an unprecedented effort by the then-president to undermine the pillars of American democracy.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. efforts to hold Donald Trump criminally responsible in a plot to overturn the 2020 election were gaining steam, as the former president prepared to face federal charges in a Washington courtroom on Thursday while Georgia state prosecutors looked poised to issue th…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Former Vice President Mike Pence, who confounded attempts by then-President Donald Trump to remain in power after losing the 2020 election, features prominently in the indictment charging Trump with orchestrating a plot to overturn the result.

NEW YORK (Reuters) — The indicted FTX cryptocurrency exchange founder Sam Bankman-Fried is trying to stay out of jail for disclosing too much to the press, and enlisted one of the foremost American constitutional law experts for help.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The indictment of former President Donald Trump for his efforts to overturn his loss in the 2020 election may be unprecedented in the annals of American history, but it appears to have done little to soften the resolve of Republican voters poised to support his bid for…

NEW YORK (Reuters) — JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon said on Wednesday bank regulators risk making mortgages and small-business loans less affordable with the capital raises proposed by the Federal Reserve and the FDIC.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Bahta Mekonnen, a 28-year-old in the key voting state of Georgia, is among the millions of Black voters who helped deliver President Joe Biden the White House in 2020.

(Reuters) —  Drugmakers are bracing for the U.S. government's announcement of the 10 prescription medicines that will be subject to the first-ever price negotiations by the Medicare health program that covers 66 million people, according to three top manufacturers.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Police gave an all-clear at the U.S. Capitol complex on Wednesday, finding no gunman or suspicious activities after a report of a possible active shooter that was most likely "bogus," U.S. Capitol Police Chief Thomas Manger told reporters.