Author Archives: Julia Bradley
Trump campaign pleads for one million donations as cash crunch looms
(Reuters) - Donald Trump's campaign on Wednesday called for donations from one million of his backers, warning he could lose his New York properties, two days after the former president failed to secu...
Mar 21, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump attends a watch party event to mark the Super Tuesday primary elections at his Mar-a-Lago property, in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S. March 5, 2024. REUTERS/Marco Bello
US weekly jobless claims unexpectedly fall; labor market gradually cooling
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits unexpectedly fell last week, suggesting that job growth remained strong in March. The Federal Reserve on Wedne...
Mar 21, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Signage for a job fair is seen on 5th Avenue after the release of the jobs report in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., September 3, 2021. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly/File Photo
US Congress releases $1.2 trillion spending package to avert shutdown
UPDATED: 10:40 A.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After days of delay, U.S. congressional leaders unveiled a $1.2 trillion bipartisan spending measure for defense, homeland security and other programs early ...
Mar 21, 2024 People walk past the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, U.S., November 15, 2023. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo
Biden cancels $6 billion in student loan debt for 78,000 public service workers
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden announced Thursday that $6 billion in student loans would be canceled for 78,000 borrowers, bringing his administration's total student debt cancellatio...
Mar 21, 2024 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden announces a preliminary agreement with Intel for a major CHIPS and Science Act award, during a visit to the Intel Ocotillo Campus, in Chandler, Arizona, U.S., March 20, 2024. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo
UPDATE: Final spot for Republicans on Tazewell County Board District 3 changes hands after more ballots counted
UPDATED 4:53 P.M. PEKIN, Ill. - The final spot in District 3 for the Republican nomination for the Tazewell County Board has changed hands...for the time being. County Clerk John Ackerman says 86 addi...
Mar 21, 2024 Midwest Communications
Haiti suspected gang members set on fire as conflict spreads to capital suburb
(Reuters) -Suspected gang members were killed during an attack on the Petion-Ville neighborhood on the southern outskirts of Haiti's capital, as a clash with police and locals pointed to a resurgence ...
Mar 21, 2024 People walk past a damaged car in the Carrefour Feuilles neighborhood, which was deserted due to gang violence, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti March 19, 2024. REUTERS/Ralph Tedy Erol
US Congress struggling to reach spending deal to avert weekend shutdown
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A fractured U.S. Congress struggled behind the scenes on Wednesday to produce a massive spending bill to fund defense, homeland security and other programs that lawmakers must p...
Mar 20, 2024 FILE PHOTO: People walk past the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, U.S., January 18, 2024. REUTERS/Leah Millis/File Photo
Trump can appeal ruling that kept Georgia prosecutor on case, judge says
UPDATE: 10:54 A.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A Georgia judge on Wednesday said Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump and eight of his co-defendants in the state's criminal election subversio...
Mar 20, 2024 Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis attends a hearing on the Georgia election interference case, March 1, 2024, in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Alex Slitz/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
Trump says he could have to sell assets to cover $454 million fraud judgment
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Donald Trump on Tuesday said on social media that he may be forced to mortgage or sell parts of his real estate business holdings at "fire sale prices" to secure a bond to cover a...
Mar 20, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. President Donald Trump walks outside the courtroom on the day of a court hearing on charges of falsifying business records to cover up a hush money payment to a porn star before the 2016 election, in New York State Supreme Court in the Manhattan borough of New York City, U.S., February 15, 2024. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly/File Photo
US House panel holds Biden impeachment hearing, but next steps unclear
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives seeking to chart a part forward in their impeachment probe of President Joe Biden will on Wednesday question two former associat...
Mar 20, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Attendees wear T-shirts with Chairman James Comer's picture on them during a House Oversight and Accountability Committee impeachment inquiry hearing into U.S. President Joe Biden, focused on his son Hunter Biden's foreign business dealings, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., September 28, 2023. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo
