Category Archives: National
US weekly jobless claims rise as labor market eases
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The number of Americans filing new applications for jobless benefits increased more than expected last week, consistent with softening labor market conditions. Initial claims for...
Sep 04, 2025 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
Still no big winner in the latest Powerball drawing
URBANDALE, Ia. - The Powerball jackpot keeps growing after no one matched all five numbers and the Powerball Wednesday night. The winning numbers were 3, 16, 29, 61, 69 and a Powerball of 22. Tickets ...
Sep 04, 2025 (Powerball)
Trump administration unlawfully cut Harvard's funding, US judge rules
BOSTON (Reuters) -A federal judge on Wednesday ruled that U.S. President Donald Trump's administration unlawfully terminated about $2.2 billion in grants awarded to Harvard University and can no longe...
Sep 03, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Students gather on the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., April 15, 2025. REUTERS/Faith Ninivaggi/ File Photo
Epstein victims urge US Congress to pass bill requiring release of documents
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Victims of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein demanded on Wednesday that the U.S. Congress pass legislation forcing the release of all unclassified records related to the dis...
Sep 03, 2025 Haley Robson, victim of late financier Jeffrey Epstein, speaks on the day of a rally in support of Epstein's victims, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., September 3, 2025. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
Republican US House committee releases thousands of Epstein files
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives committee on Tuesday said it released more than 33,000 pages of files on the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey...
Sep 03, 2025 U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), with House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY), speaks to reporters after meeting with survivors of abuse at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., U.S., September 2, 2025. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
US military kills 11 people in strike on alleged drug boat from Venezuela, Trump says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. military killed 11 people on Tuesday in a strike on a vessel from Venezuela allegedly carrying illegal narcotics, President Donald Trump said, in the first known operati...
Sep 03, 2025 U.S. President Donald Trump replies to a question during an event to announce that the Space Force Command will move from Colorado to Alabama, in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., September 2, 2025. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
US judge blocks Trump administration's use of troops in California
(Reuters) -A federal judge on Tuesday blocked U.S. President Donald Trump's administration from using the military to fight crime in California, as the Republican president threatens to send troops to...
Sep 02, 2025 FILE PHOTO: National Guard troops wear gas masks during protests against federal immigration sweeps, in Los Angeles, California, U.S., June 12, 2025. REUTERS/David Swanson/File Photo
US Congress returns, with a one-month deadline to avert government shutdown
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Congress returns on Tuesday with less than a month left to perform one of its core functions - keeping federal agencies funded and averting a partial government shutdown...
Sep 02, 2025 The U.S. Capitol Rotunda on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., as the death toll from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic exceeds 100,000 victims, May 27, 2020. REUTERS/Tom Brenner/File Photo
GasBuddy: Peoria gas prices up a bit following Labor Day weekend
PEORIA, Ill. - Gas prices in Peoria were up nearly two cents in the last week, averaging $3.36 a gallon on Tuesday, according to GasBuddy. Those prices are just over five cents higher than a month ago...
Sep 02, 2025 Orin Zebest / CC
Powerball jackpot grows to $1.3 billion after no one won the top prize Monday night
URBANDALE, Ia. - The Powerball jackpot just keeps growing...reaching $1.3 billion after no one matched all five numbers and the Powerball Monday night. Monday's winning numbers were: 8, 23, 25, 40 and...
Sep 02, 2025 (Powerball)
