Category Archives: National
Judge partly blocks Trump order imposing new rules on US elections
(Reuters) -A U.S. judge on Thursday blocked parts of President Donald Trump's executive order seeking to impose new rules on federal elections, which Democrats and other groups said risked denying eli...
Apr 24, 2025 People vote in the 2024 U.S. presidential election on Election Day in Columbus, Ohio, U.S., November 5, 2024. REUTERS/Megan Jelinger/File Photo
Trump on Russia strikes on Kyiv: 'Vladimir, STOP!"
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump turned his criticism on Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday after Russia pounded Kyiv with missiles and drones overnight, saying "Vladimir, STOP!...
Apr 24, 2025 U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during an event to sign executive orders in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 23, 2025. REUTERS/Leah Millis
Dollar rally unravels as investors shrug off Trump U-turns
LONDON (Reuters) -The dollar staged a broad retreat on Thursday, as investor gloom over the lack of any real progress towards defusing the U.S./China trade war reasserted itself following a brief inte...
Apr 24, 2025 U.S. dollar banknotes are seen in this illustration taken March 19, 2025. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
Crowds queue to pay final respects to Pope Francis at the Vatican
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - St. Peter's Basilica opened its doors again on Thursday after a brief closure in the early hours to welcome crowds of worshippers from around the world lining up to pay their ...
Apr 24, 2025 A nun sits on side of the road as faithful queue to enter St. Peter's Basilica to pay respect as Pope Francis lies in state, as seen from Rome, Italy, April 24, 2025. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
Trump and Zelenskiy clash again and US warns it could abandon Ukraine talks
WASHINGTON/LONDON/PARIS (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy clashed again on Wednesday on efforts to end the three-year-old war in Ukraine, with the U.S...
Apr 23, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy attends a press conference, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine, April 4, 2025. REUTERS/Alina Smutko/File Photo
Judges extend Venezuela deportation blocks, question Trump's use of wartime law
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Two U.S. judges on Tuesday extended temporary blocks on some deportations of Venezuelan migrants and signaled that President Donald Trump's invocation of a 1798 law historically us...
Apr 23, 2025 A drone view of detainees at the the Bluebonnet Detention Facility, the facility where Venezuelans at the center of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling are held, in Anson, Texas, U.S., April 22, 2025. REUTERS/Mike Blake
US business activity moderates in April; firms demand higher prices for their products
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. business activity slowed to a 16-month low in April and prices charged for goods and services soared amid uncertainty caused by tariffs, reinforcing financial market fears o...
Apr 23, 2025 Workers assemble a Ford truck at the new Louisville Ford truck plant in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. September 30, 2016. REUTERS/Bryan Woolston/File Photo
As Pope Francis lies in state, Catholics gather in Rome to say goodbye
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Maria Pia Caruso travelled to Rome from her hometown in northern Italy after she learned Pope Francis had died at age 88, to say a final goodbye to a pontiff she believes brou...
Apr 23, 2025 Pope Francis' body is carried in a coffin into Saint Peter's Basilica, on the day of its translation, at the Vatican, April 23, 2025. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez
US to phase out many synthetic food dyes, Kennedy and FDA head say
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and FDA Commissioner Marty Makary said on Tuesday that the agency plans to remove petroleum-based synthetic food dyes from the U.S. food s...
Apr 22, 2025 U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Marty Makary announces the FDA’s intent to phase out the use of petroleum-based synthetic dyes in the nation’s food supply during a press conference at the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 22, 2025. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz
Trump administration proposes major shake-up of US State Department
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Trump administration is proposing a major overhaul of the U.S. State Department that would eliminate more than 100 offices including some working on war crimes and rights adv...
Apr 22, 2025 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio looks on upon his arrival at the Quai d'Orsay, France's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, before a bilateral meeting with his French counterpart in Paris, France April 17, 2025. JULIEN DE ROSA/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
