Author Archives: Julia Bradley
US Congress scrambles to pass stopgap bill to avert government shutdown
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Thursday will aim to approve a stopgap measure keeping the federal government funded through early March, averting a partial shutdown that would begin in less...
Jan 18, 2024 People walk past a snowy U.S. Capitol building in Washington, U.S., January 16, 2024. REUTERS/Leah Millis/ File Photo
Analysis-Biden's strategy on Yemen aims to weaken, not destroy, Houthis
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden's emerging strategy on Yemen aims to weaken the Houthi militants but stops well short of trying to defeat the group or directly address Iran, the Houthi...
Jan 18, 2024 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden speaks to the press, as he visits Allentown Fire Training Academy, in Allentown, Pennsylvania, U.S., January 12, 2024. REUTERS/Leah Millis/File Photo
Biden aims for North Carolina as 2024 election comes into focus
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden will fix his gaze on one of the prizes of the 2024 election three days after Donald Trump's Iowa Republican primary triumph, taking his economic pitch t...
Jan 18, 2024 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden makes remarks to promote his infrastructure spending proposals during a visit to the Flatirons Campus Laboratories and Offices of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), in Arvada, Colorado, U.S. September 14, 2021. REUTERS/Leah Millis/File Photo
US relists Houthis as terrorists in response to Red Sea attacks
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Biden administration on Wednesday returned the Yemen-based Houthi rebels to a list of terrorist groups, U.S. officials said, in the latest attempt by Washington to stem atta...
Jan 17, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Houthi military helicopter flies over the Galaxy Leader cargo ship in the Red Sea in this photo released November 20, 2023. Houthi Military Media/Handout via REUTERS
US retail sales beat expectations in December
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. retail sales increased more than expected in December as consumers stepped up purchases of motor vehicles and retailers offered discounts, keeping the economy on solid grou...
Jan 17, 2024 FILE PHOTO: An Abercrombie & Fitch storefront sign states "SALE UP TO 50% OFF" at the King of Prussia Mall, United States' largest retail shopping space, in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, U.S., December 8, 2018. REUTERS/Mark Makela/File Photo
Canton man arrested for Mapleton armed robbery
MAPLETON, Ill. - A Canton man has been arrested for the suspected armed robbery of a Mapleton gas station late last week. Surveillance video Friday night showed a man with a gun demanding money from a...
Jan 17, 2024 (Peoria County Jail)
Bill to avert government shutdown advances in US Senate
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bill to avert a partial U.S. government shutdown beginning this weekend cleared a first procedural hurdle in the Senate on Tuesday, as lawmakers scrambled to pass the measure ...
Jan 17, 2024 FILE PHOTO: The U.S. Capitol Dome is illuminated in Washington, U.S., June 1, 2023. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/File Photo
Republicans look to New Hampshire after Trump's landslide Iowa win
ATKINSON, New Hampshire (Reuters) -Donald Trump and his Republican opponents kicked off a week of campaigning in New Hampshire on Tuesday ahead of the state's nominating contest, with the ex-president...
Jan 17, 2024 Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks on stage during a campaign rally ahead of the New Hampshire primary election, in Atkinson, New Hampshire, U.S. January 16, 2024. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz
UPDATE: U.S. attacks Houthi anti-ship missiles, vessel hit in Red Sea
UPDATED 11:25 A.M. WASHINGTON/DAVOS (Reuters) -The U.S. military carried out a new strike in Yemen on Tuesday against anti-ship ballistic missiles in a Houthi-controlled part of the country as a missi...
Jan 16, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Container ships sail across the Gulf of Suez towards the Red Sea before entering the Suez Canal, in El Ain El Sokhna in Suez, east of Cairo, Egypt, March 17, 2018. Picture taken March 17, 2018. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh/File Photo
US lawmakers reach $78 billion tax deal for businesses, families -reports
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congressional negotiators have agreed on a nearly $80 billion deal providing tax benefits geared toward businesses and low-income families, according to media reports on Tuesday...
Jan 16, 2024 FILE PHOTO: The dome of the U.S. Capitol building is seen on a rainy day as the deadline to avert a government shutdown approaches in Washington, U.S., September 26, 2023. REUTERS/Leah Millis/File Photo
