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(Reuters) - Amazon.com's self-driving car unit Zoox said on Wednesday it plans to start testing its robotaxis in Austin and Miami, a move that will mark its first trial sites outside the western United States.

Zoox will deploy its retrofitted Toyota Highlander test fleet in small areas near the business and entertainment districts of the two cities, it said in a statement.

The announcement comes amid an investigation by the National... (continue reading...)

By Andrew Goudsward

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A Georgia appeals court on Wednesday paused the criminal case accusing Donald Trump of seeking to subvert the 2020 election while it considers the former president's bid to disqualify lead prosecutor Fani Willis, a court order showed.

The order prevents the sprawling case against Trump and 14 co-defendants from moving toward trial while Trump appeals a judge's ruling allowing Willis, the Fulton County... (continue reading...)

ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin, asked about the risks of nuclear war over Ukraine, cautioned the West on Wednesday that Russia could use all available means to defend itself if its sovereignty or territorial integrity were threatened.

Putin said that the West had repeatedly accused Russia of nuclear sabre rattling but said this was wrong, and pointed out that it was the United States which had used nuclear weapons against... (continue reading...)

By Daniel Trotta

SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - Jessica Leon, an asylum-seeker from Ecuador, scaled a border wall on Tuesday with her 3-year-old daughter, setting foot on U.S. soil in San Diego, California, just hours before a new asylum ban took effect.

She and about a dozen other migrants from Guatemala, Colombia and Vietnam who climbed the wall immediately turned themselves in to U.S. border agents. They were directed to walk to the place... (continue reading...)

(Reuters) - The embattled warden of a Wisconsin prison that was under federal investigation was charged with misconduct in public office on Wednesday, court record showed, after four inmates at the maximum security facility died over the last year.

Randall Hepp, warden of the Waupun Correctional Institution in Waupun, was taken into custody by authorities in Dodge County one day after he announced his resignation, the local sheriff said at a briefing.... (continue reading...)