Category Archives: National
Trump to impose sweeping tariffs, escalating global trade tensions
WASHINGTON/DUBLIN (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump was expected to impose sweeping new reciprocal tariffs on global trading partners on Wednesday, upending decades of rules-based trade, risking ...
Apr 02, 2025 A car carrier transporting vehicles made by South Korea's automaker Kia Motors which is a sister company of South Korea’s biggest automaker company Hyundai Motors travels near Pyeongtaek port in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, April 2, 2025. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji
Val Kilmer, star of 'Top Gun' and 'Batman Forever' dies at 65, NYT reports
(Reuters) -Val Kilmer, who starred in films such as "Top Gun," "The Doors," and "Batman Forever" while earning a reputation as a Hollywood bad boy, has died, the New York Times reported. He was 65. Th...
Apr 02, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Cast member Val Kilmer attends a news conference for the film "Twixt" at the 36th Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto September 12, 2011. REUTERS/Fred Thornhill/File Photo
Republicans projected to win two Florida special elections, boosting US House majority
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republican candidates are projected to win two special elections in Florida on Tuesday, according to projections by U.S. media organizations, boosting Republicans' slim majority ...
Apr 01, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Florida Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis speaks during the "Keep Florida Free Tour" at Pepin's Hospitality Centre in Tampa, Florida, U.S., August 24, 2022. REUTERS/Octavio Jones/File Photo
Trump begins mass layoffs at FDA, CDC, other US health agencies
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Trump administration began mass layoffs of 10,000 staffers at U.S. health agencies on Tuesday, according to multiple sources familiar with the situation, with security guards...
Apr 01, 2025 Employees of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) queue outside the Mary E. Switzer Memorial Building, after it was reported that the Trump administration fired staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and at the Food and Drug Administration, as it embarked on its plan to cut 10,000 jobs at HHS, in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 1, 2025. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
US prosecutors to seek death penalty for Luigi Mangione, Bondi says
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Attorney General Pamela Bondi directed federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, the man accused of shooting and killing the CEO of UnitedHe...
Apr 01, 2025 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
US Senate Republicans to seek referee's opinion on Trump tax plan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Senate Republicans will ask their chamber's nonpartisan referee this week to weigh in on a controversial plan to make President Donald Trump's expiring 2017 tax cuts permane...
Apr 01, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) speaks with reporters following the Senate Republicans' weekly policy lunch on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 11, 2025. REUTERS/Nathan Howard/File Photo
Trump administration to freeze family-planning funds for Planned Parenthood
(Reuters) -Reproductive health provider Planned Parenthood said on Monday the Trump administration would cut federal family planning funding as of Tuesday, affecting birth control, cancer screenings a...
Apr 01, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Nuns pray outside of a Planned Parenthood location in Columbus, Ohio, U.S., November 12, 2021 as the state considers restrictive abortion laws. REUTERS/Gaelen Morse/File Photo
Harvard at risk of losing $9 billion in federal funds as US launches review
(Reuters) -The Trump administration said on Monday it was reviewing $9 billion in federal contracts and grants awarded to Harvard University, part of a crackdown on what it says is antisemitism on col...
Apr 01, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Mugs bearing the school's logo are displayed for sale outside Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., June 18, 2018. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo
Union sues to block Trump from ending collective bargaining for many federal workers
(Reuters) -A union that represents 150,000 U.S. government employees filed a lawsuit on Monday seeking to block President Donald Trump from stripping hundreds of thousands of federal workers of the ab...
Mar 31, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Denise Davis, a retired federal employee and NTEU union member, looks on as her great grandsons' Deondre and Montrell Griffin hold a sign during a rally across the street from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) headquarters, in support of the civil service in the wake of mass firings, and organized by the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) in Kansas City, Missouri, U.S. March 15, 2025. REUTERS/Chase Castor/File Photo
In a change of course, US Justice Dept drops challenge to Georgia voting law
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump's Justice Department said on Monday it was pulling out of a lawsuit that challenges a Republican-backed Georgia election law as discriminatory, abando...
Mar 31, 2025 FILE PHOTO: People make a line to vote during the 2024 U.S. presidential election on Election Day, at Flipper Temple A.M.E. Church, in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., November 5, 2024. REUTERS/Cheney Orr/File Photo
