Category Archives: National
Cyndi Lauper, Chubby Checker chosen for Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -"The Twist" singer Chubby Checker, pop star Cyndi Lauper and grunge rock band Soundgarden were among the acts chosen for induction this year into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fam...
Apr 28, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Cyndi Lauper attends the MTV Video Music Awards in Elmont, New York, U.S., September 11, 2024. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly/File Photo
Putin declares 3-day May ceasefire to mark 80 years since World War Two victory
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday declared a three-day ceasefire in the war with Ukraine next month to mark the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Soviet Union and its a...
Apr 28, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Rescuers search for 17-year-old Danylo Khudia and his parents at the side of an apartment building hit by a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine April 24, 2025. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko
At least nine killed in Vancouver after vehicle plows into Filipino festival
VANCOUVER (Reuters) - At least nine people were killed when a man drove through a crowd at a Filipino community festival in the western Canadian city of Vancouver on Saturday evening, police said in a...
Apr 27, 2025 The suspect vehicle is seen with the driver's door open, as bodies of victims lie covered on the ground, after it drove into a crowd at a Lapu Lapu day block party, in which police say multiple people were killed and injured, in Vancouver, Canada April 27, 2025. REUTERS/Chris Helgren
Trump and Zelenskiy meet one-on-one in Vatican basilica to seek Ukraine peace
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - President Donald Trump and Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskiy, in Rome for the funeral of Pope Francis, met one-on-one in a marble-lined Vatican basilica on Saturday to try ...
Apr 26, 2025 Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and U.S. President Donald Trump appear at a meeting, while they attend the funeral of Pope Francis, at the Vatican April 26, 2025. Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Handout via REUTERS
Massive funeral and humble burial for Pope Francis
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Presidents, royalty and simple mourners bade farewell to Pope Francis on Saturday at a solemn funeral ceremony, where a cardinal appealed for the pontiff's legacy of caring fo...
Apr 26, 2025 U.S. President Donald Trump, first lady Melania Trump, France's President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macron stand as the coffin is carried on the day of the funeral of Pope Francis in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, April 26, 2025. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez
Cardinal's funeral sermon stresses pope's call to "build bridges, not walls"
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - In front of hundreds of world leaders attending the funeral of Pope Francis on Saturday, Italian Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re called for care for migrants, an end to wars, an...
Apr 26, 2025 Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re leads the funeral Mass of Pope Francis in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, April 26, 2025. REUTERS/Yara Nardi
US charges Milwaukee judge with obstructing immigration arrest in Trump crackdown
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. officials arrested a Wisconsin judge on Friday and charged her with helping a man in her court evade immigration authorities in an escalating dispute between President Donal...
Apr 25, 2025 Hannah Dugan speaks as she was seeking election to Milwaukee County Circuit Court during a forum at the Milwaukee Bar Association in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S., March 15, 2016. Mike De Sisti / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images via REUTERS/File Photo
UPDATE: Luigi Mangione pleads not guilty as prosecutors seek death penalty
UPDATED 1:14 P.M. NEW YORK (Reuters) -Luigi Mangione pleaded not guilty on Friday to federal charges of gunning down health insurance executive Brian Thompson, a day after prosecutors formally stated ...
Apr 25, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the killing of UnitedHealth Group chief executive Brian Thompson, appears in Manhattan Supreme Court on New York state murder and terrorism charges in New York City, U.S., February 21, 2025. Curtis Means/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
In first 100 days, Trump tells migrants 'leave the United States'
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Taras Atamanchuk found safety for his family near Houston, Texas. The 32-year-old moved to the U.S. with his wife and daughter in 2023 throug...
Apr 25, 2025 Taras Atamanchuk with his daughter Violet and wife Viktoria attend his son Maximilian's baptism at a church in Sugar Land, Texas, U.S., April 14, 2024. Courtesy of Taras Atamanchuk/Handout via REUTERS
US judge blocks Trump from withholding funds from 16 'sanctuary' cities, counties
(Reuters) -A federal judge on Thursday blocked Donald Trump's administration from withholding federal funding from more than a dozen so-called sanctuary jurisdictions that have declined to cooperate w...
Apr 24, 2025 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump looks on, as he signs executive orders in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 23, 2025. REUTERS/Leah Millis/File Photo
