Category Archives: National
Loni Anderson, who played smart against stereotype on 'WKRP in Cincinnati,' dead at 79
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Actress Loni Anderson, who won acclaim for her U.S. television sitcom role as the brainy, glamorous radio station receptionist defying workplace sexual stereotypes on "WKRP in C...
Aug 04, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Actress Loni Anderson, star of the television series "WKRP in Cinncinnati", poses at the 3rd annual TV Land Awards in Santa Monica, California, March 13, 2005. REUTERS/Michael Buckner/File Photo
Pope Leo exhorts crowd of million Catholic youth to spread their faith
ROME (Reuters) - Pope Leo celebrated the largest event yet of his nearly three-month tenure on Sunday, encouraging a crowd of more than a million Catholic young people gathered in a field on the outsk...
Aug 03, 2025 Pope Leo XIV leads Mass for Jubilee of Youth in Tor Vergata, in Rome, Italy, August 3, 2025. REUTERS/Yara Nardi
Trump fires U.S. labor official over data
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Friday fired a top Labor Department official on the heels of a market-shocking weak scorecard of the U.S. job market, accusing her without evi...
Aug 02, 2025 Signage is seen at the United States Department of Labor headquarters in Washington, D.C., U.S., August 29, 2020. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly
Corporation for Public Broadcasting to close after funding cut, in blow to local media
(Reuters) -The Corporation for Public Broadcasting will shut down its operations after the loss of federal funding, the nonprofit said on Friday, in a blow to local TV and radio stations that have rel...
Aug 01, 2025 FILE PHOTO: A view shows the U.S. Capitol building, in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 3, 2025. REUTERS/Annabelle Gordon/File Photo
US labor market cracks widen as job growth hits stall speed
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. employment growth was weaker than expected in July while the nonfarm payrolls count for the prior two months was revised down by a massive 258,000 jobs, suggesting a sharp d...
Aug 01, 2025 A tractor trailer advertising job opportunities in the trucking industry drives south on Interstate 81 near Staunton, Virginia, U.S., January 22, 2022. Picture taken January 22, 2022. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
Trump: Fed board should assume control if Powell won't lower interest rates
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday urged the Federal Reserve board to assume control if Fed Chair Jerome Powell continues to refuse to lower interest rates. "Jerome 'Too Late'...
Aug 01, 2025 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell speak during a tour of the Federal Reserve Board building, which is currently undergoing renovations, in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 24, 2025. REUTERS/Kent Nishimura/File photo
Trump escalates trade war with Canada following Palestine stance
(Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump intensified his trade war with Canada a day ahead of his August 1 deadline for a tariff agreement, saying it would be "very hard" to make a deal with Canada afte...
Jul 31, 2025 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney attend a meeting with G7 leaders and guests, at the G7 summit in Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada, June 16, 2025. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo
US weekly jobless claims rise marginally
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The number of Americans filing new applications for unemployment benefits increased marginally last week, suggesting that the labor market remained stable, though it is taking lo...
Jul 31, 2025 FILE PHOTO: A man walks into register at a military job fair in Sandy, Utah, U.S., March 26, 2019. REUTERS/George Frey/File Photo
New Mexico judge dismisses Alec Baldwin's 'malicious' prosecution suit in 'Rust' case
(Reuters) -A New Mexico judge has thrown out a misconduct lawsuit filed by actor Alec Baldwin against local prosecutors and sheriff's officials over their pursuit of criminal charges against him for t...
Jul 31, 2025 FILE PHOTO: US actor Alec Baldwin attends his trial for involuntary manslaughter at Santa Fe County District Court in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on July 12, 2024. In October 2021, on the New Mexico set of the Western movie "Rust," a gun pointed by Baldwin discharged a live round, killing the film's cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and wounding its director. RAMSAY DE GIVE/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
NTSB criticizes FAA for failing to act before fatal Army helicopter collision
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The head of the National Transportation Safety Board sharply criticized U.S. officials for failing to act before the January 29 collision of a U.S. Army helicopter with an Americ...
Jul 31, 2025 FILE PHOTO: A crane retrieves part of the helicopter from the Potomac River as an American plane departs, in the aftermath of the collision of American Eagle flight 5342 and a Black Hawk helicopter that crashed into the river, by the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, in Arlington, Virginia, U.S., February 6, 2025. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz/File Photo
