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By Jana Choukeir and Susan Heavey DUBAI/WASHINGTON, Aug 21 (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury chief Scott Bessent said the United States will impose “the toughest sanctions in history” on Iran, a move he suggested would lessen the need for new major military operations.

By Richard Cowan and Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, Aug 20 (Reuters) – Democrat Aisha Wahab, a member of the California state Senate, was ​projected on Thursday to win a ‌special election to fill a vacant seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, according to multiple U.S. media outlets. Wahab defeated Democrat Melissa Hernandez, an official with ‌the ​San Francisco Bay Area ⁠mass transit system.

By Diana Novak Jones Aug 20 (Reuters) – A teen girl whose lawsuit was a test case in litigation accusing social media companies of deliberately addicting young people and fueling a mental health crisis dropped her claims against the owners of Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and Snapchat on Thursday, according to a court ​filing. The plaintiff, a 15-year-old girl from New Jersey identified in California court records as P.

The NFL fined the Dallas Cowboys and New Orleans Saints $500,000 apiece following multiple fights at their joint practice session on Tuesday in Oxnard, Calif., the league announced. “The competition committee has made sportsmanship — including at joint practices — a point of emphasis over the past several ​years,” the NFL said in a statement on Thursday.

By Ethan Wang, Shi Bu and Ryan Woo BEIJING, Aug 21 (Reuters) – China is poised to launch Chang’e-7, its most technologically complex lunar mission to date, in its search for frozen stores of water in permanently shadowed craters near the moon’s south pole. The uncrewed mission, named after a mythical Chinese goddess of the moon, will feature the deployment of a robotic lander, ​rover, and “hopping” probe to one of the coldest places in the solar system.

By Leika Kihara TOKYO, Aug 21 (Reuters) – Japan’s core consumer inflation accelerated in July from a year earlier as firms passed on rising import costs from a weak yen and the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, ​data showed on Friday, bolstering the case for a rate hike ‌from the central bank. The data will be among the factors the Bank of Japan will scrutinise at its next policy meeting on September 17 and 18, when it is widely expected to raise rates to 1.25% from 1%.

By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON, Aug 20 (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department has requested to interview FBI officials who were involved in the 2022 search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida as part of a wide-ranging probe examining ​past investigations of the president, four sources familiar with the matter ‌said on Thursday. The requests came from investigators working with Joe diGenova, a Trump ally who began overseeing the Florida-based investigation earlier this year.

(Corrects paragraph 3 percentage rise to ​1.9%, not ‌1.8%) TOKYO, Aug 21 (Reuters) – – Japan’s core consumer prices ‌rose ​1.8% ⁠in July from ⁠a year earlier, government data showed on ​Friday. The core consumer price ⁠index, ⁠which includes ​oil products but ​excludes fresh food ‌prices, compared with economists’ median estimate ⁠for a 1.8% annual gain. Stripping away ⁠the ‌effect of ⁠fresh food ​and ‌energy, consumer prices ​rose ⁠1.9% in July from a year ago. (Reporting by Tokyo ​Newsroom)

By Sai Ishwarbharath B, Abhirami G and Haripriya Suresh BENGALURU, August 21 (Reuters) – Artificial intelligence promised to disrupt India’s IT industry and it is delivering. Outsourcing giants like Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys, Wipro, HCLTech and Cognizant are rejigging business models, increasingly tying fees to performance outcomes instead of hours worked, as clients demand steep price cuts and more productivity.

WILMINGTON, Delaware, Aug 20 (Reuters) – A federal judge on Thursday tossed part of the conviction of former Google software engineer Linwei Ding, who was found guilty earlier this year of stealing AI ​trade secrets from the U.S. tech giant to benefit two Chinese ‌companies.