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LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – Oscar-winning actor Dustin Hoffman responded on Wednesday to an allegation of sexual harassment by a teenage intern on a film set more than 30 years ago.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – A man driving a rented pickup truck mowed down pedestrians and cyclists on a bike path alongside the Hudson River in New York City yesterday, killing eight people and injuring about a dozen others in what authorities said was an act of terrorism.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States is quietly pursuing direct diplomacy with North Korea, a senior State Department official said yesterday, despite U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A large group of U.S. states accused key players in the generic drug industry of a broad price-fixing conspiracy, moving yesterday to widen an earlier lawsuit to add many more drugmakers and medicines in an action that sent some company shares tumbling.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. senators on Tuesday pressed Facebook Inc’s chief lawyer on why the company did not catch 2016 election ads bought using Russian rubles, why its investigation of them took so long and how much it knows about its 5 million advertisers.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – Netflix Inc indefinitely halted production of political drama “House of Cards” yesterday following an allegation of sexual misconduct against series star Kevin Spacey.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Federal investigators probing Russian interference in the 2016 U.S.

BARCELONA/MADRID,  (Reuters) – Spain’s state prosecutor accused sacked Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont yesterday of rebellion and sedition as the former regional president travelled to Belgium with other members of his ousted administration and hired a lawyer there.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s top national security aides pushed back yesterday against U.S.

DAR ES SALAAM,  (Reuters) – A senior Tanzanian politician quit the ruling party yesterday complaining of human rights abuses and a weakening of democracy in the east African nation, in a move political analysts said could trigger a wave of defections to opposition parties.

NAIROBI,  (Reuters) – Kenya’s incumbent President Uhuru Kenyatta won 98 percent of the vote in a repeated election in which an opposition boycott helped lower turnout to 39 percent, the electoral commission said on Monday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Paul Manafort, a former campaign manager for President Donald Trump, surrendered to the FBI today and another ex-aide pleaded guilty to lying to agents in the most serious steps yet of a federal probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.

ERBIL/BAGHDAD Iraq, (Reuters) – Iraqi Kurdish leader Masoud Barzani said he would give up his position as president on Nov.

JUBA, South Sudan/KITCHANGA, Democratic Republic of Congo,  (Reuters) – In a mountainous camp for displaced Congolese, U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The investigation into possible Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s plan for overhauling the U.S.

Muhoroni, Kenya, (Reuters) – Kenya’s repeat presidential election, boycotted this week by millions, has reignited long-running tensions between ethnic communities in some areas, leading inhabitants of one small village in the west to pick up traditional arms on Saturday.

MOGADISHU, (Reuters) – Two car bombs killed at least 17 people in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Saturday, police said, two weeks after a huge truck bomb killed hundreds of civilians in the city.

MADRID/BARCELONA, (Reuters) – Sacked Catalonian president Carles Puigdemont on Saturday called for peaceful “democratic opposition” to the central government’s takeover of the region following its unilateral declaration of independence from Spain.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. House Intelligence Committee on Saturday said it had reached an agreement related to its subpoena of a Washington research firm’s bank records that would secure access to records for the panel’s probe of Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.