Category Archives: National
Peace breakthrough unlikely as Putin declines to meet Zelenskiy in Turkey
ISTANBUL/ANKARA (Reuters) -Russia's Vladimir Putin spurned a challenge to meet face-to-face with Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Turkey on Thursday, instead sending a second-tier delegation to planned peace ta...
May 15, 2025 Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy at the Presidential Palace in Ankara, Turkey, May 15, 2025. Mustafa Kamaci/Turkish Presidential Press Office/Handout via REUTERS
US weekly jobless claims unchanged amid stable labor market
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The number of Americans filing new applications for unemployment benefits was unchanged last week, but job opportunities are becoming more scarce for those out of work as economi...
May 15, 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
US producer prices unexpectedly fall in April
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. producer prices unexpectedly fell in April as the cost of services declined by the most since 2009, pulled down by ebbing demand for air travel and hotel accommodation. The ...
May 15, 2025 FILE PHOTO: A worker welds at a factory floor in Columbus, Ohio, U.S., March 26, 2024. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File photo
Trump says Qatar will invest $10 billion in US airbase
DOHA (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that Qatar will invest $10 billion in coming years in the Al Udeid Air Base southwest of the country's capital Doha, the largest U.S. milit...
May 15, 2025 U.S. President Donald Trump gestures during an address to U.S. troops during a visit to Al Udeid Air Base in Doha, Qatar, May 15, 2025. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
Israel intensifies Gaza bombardment, kills 80 people, as Trump visits Gulf
CAIRO (Reuters) -Israeli military strikes killed at least 80 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, local health authorities said, in an intensification of the bombardment as U.S. President ...
May 14, 2025 Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli strike on a house, in Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip, May 14, 2025. REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa
US health chief Kennedy defends mass firings, measles response to lawmakers
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Robert F. Kennedy Jr. defended billions of dollars in cuts and thousands of firings at his department, as well as his response to a fast-growing measles outbreak, on Wednesday du...
May 14, 2025 U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testifies before a House Appropriations Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Subcommittee hearing on the Department of Health and Human Services budget, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 14, 2025. REUTERS/Ken Cedeno
Republicans push ahead on Trump tax plan, despite intra-party dissent
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republicans in the U.S. Congress advanced elements of President Donald Trump's sweeping budget package on Wednesday after an all-night debate, as a key committee voted to approve...
May 14, 2025 FILE PHOTO: The U.S. Capitol is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 7, 2025. REUTERS/Nathan Howard/File Photo
Ford to recall more than 273,000 vehicles
(Reuters) -Ford Motor is recalling 273,789 vehicles in the United States as a loss of brake function may increase the risk of a crash, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Wednes...
May 14, 2025 FILE PHOTO: A Ford Expedition is displayed at the Canadian International AutoShow in Toronto, Ontario, Canada February 13, 2025. REUTERS/Carlos Osorio/File Photo
Menendez brothers eligible for parole after re-sentencing in 1989 shotgun murders
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Lyle and Erik Menendez, who have served 35 years of a life prison term for the 1989 shotgun murders of their parents in their Beverly Hills home, were ruled eligible for parole ...
May 14, 2025 Actor Natasha Blasick holds a sign near the Van Nuys Courthouse West, on the day of a resentencing hearing in the case of Erik and Lyle Menendez in Los Angeles, California, U.S., May 13, 2025. REUTERS/Daniel Cole
Trump says US to lift Syria sanctions, secures $600 billion Saudi deal
RIYADH (Reuters) -President Donald Trump kicked off his trip to the Gulf on Tuesday with a surprise announcement that the United States will lift long-standing sanctions on Syria, and a $600 billion c...
May 14, 2025 U.S. President Donald Trump and Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed Bin Salman shake hands during a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signing ceremony at the Royal Court in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, May 13, 2025. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
