Author Archives: Cooper Banks
Trump ex-adviser Bannon convicted of contempt of U.S. Congress
UPDATED 2:53 p.m. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Steve Bannon, a key associate of former President Donald Trump and an influential figure on the American right, was convicted on Friday of contempt of Congress ...
Jul 22, 2022 Former U.S. President Donald Trump's White House chief strategist Steve Bannon departs after he was found guilty during his trial on contempt of Congress charges for his refusal to cooperate with the U.S. House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, at U.S. District Court in Washington, U.S., July 22, 2022. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Biden improving as mild COVID symptoms persist, White House says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden's symptoms from COVID-19 symptoms have improved, his doctor said on Friday, one day after Biden tested positive for the virus as a highly contagious sub...
Jul 22, 2022 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarkson climate change and renewable energy at the site of the former Brayton Point Power Station in Somerset, Massachusetts, U.S., July 20, 2022. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Reaction to Ukraine, Russia grain export deal
(Reuters) - Russia and Ukraine signed a landmark deal on Friday to reopen Ukrainian Black Sea ports for grain exports, raising hopes that an international food crisis aggravated by the Russian invasio...
Jul 22, 2022 U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks during a signing ceremony in Istanbul, Turkey July 22, 2022. REUTERS/Umit Bektas
Even after Jan. 6 Capitol riot, Trump refused to admit election was over
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Donald Trump refused to admit in a speech the day after the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol that the 2020 election was over and that he had lost, according to new video shown...
Jul 21, 2022 Former U.S. President Donald Trump gestures during a rally to boost Ohio Republican candidates ahead of their May 3 primary election, at the county fairgrounds in Delaware, Ohio, U.S. April 23, 2022. REUTERS/Gaelen Morse
Ukrainian first lady appeals to U.S. Congress for more weapons against Russia's 'Hunger Games'
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ukrainian first lady Olena Zelenska appealed to U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday to provide more help to her country as it struggles against a five-month-long Russian invasion, saying ...
Jul 20, 2022 U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) looks on as Ukrainian first lady Olena Zelenska shakes hands with U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) during a meeting with members of the United States Congress, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., July 20, 2022. Saul Loeb/Pool via REUTERS
U.S. archives seeks details on missing Jan.6-related texts -letter
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The National Archives has asked the U.S. Secret Service for information regarding its agents' missing Jan. 6-related text messages amid reports of potentially unauthorized delet...
Jul 19, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A mob of supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump fight with members of law enforcement at a door they broke open as they storm the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, U.S., January 6, 2021. REUTERS/Leah Millis
U.S. House passes bill to protect right to travel for abortion
(Reuters) -The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday passed legislation to safeguard the right to travel across state lines to seek an abortion after several states banned the procedure in the wake ...
Jul 15, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Women's March activists hold signs outside the White House in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overturn the landmark Roe v Wade abortion decision in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 9, 2022. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts
Ivana Trump, first wife of Donald Trump, dies at 73
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Ivana Trump, the first wife of former U.S. President Donald Trump and the mother of his three oldest children, who helped her husband build some of his signature buildings includ...
Jul 14, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Ivana Trump arrives at her belated birthday party at the Pangaea Soleil club during the 59th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes May 24, 2006. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni
Coroner: Two people found shot in Peoria home Thursday
UPDATE: 4:16 p.m. PEORIA, Ill. -- We've confirmed with Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood that two people found dead inside a central Peoria home Thursday afternoon both sustained gunshot wounds. Of ...
Jul 14, 2022 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Flood leaves dozens of homes damaged in southwest Virginia
UPDATE: 11:50 a.m. A deputy sheriff in Buchanan County, Virginia now says there are no residents unaccounted for in the "impact area" near where floodwaters damaged dozens of homes. ORIGINAL STORY: (R...
Jul 14, 2022
