Category Archives: National
Trump drives trade war fears as auto tariffs pound allies
WASHINGTON/TOKYO/BERLIN (Reuters) - Governments from Ottawa to Paris threatened retaliation on Thursday after U.S. President Donald Trump unveiled a 25% tariff on imported vehicles, expanding a global...
Mar 27, 2025 Trucks are parked at the Ford Hermosillo Stamping and Assembly Plant following U.S. President Donald Trump's announcement of a 25% tariff on imported cars and light trucks starting next week, in Hermosillo, Sonora state, Mexico, March 26, 2025. REUTERS/Santiago Fontes
US Health Secretary Kennedy to cut 10,000 jobs in department overhaul
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will cut about 10,000 full-time jobs and close half of its regional offices, it said on Thursday, a major overhaul of the depart...
Mar 27, 2025 FILE PHOTO: WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 04: U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attends U.S. President Donald Trump's address to a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol on March 04, 2025 in Washington, DC. Win McNamee/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
Ukraine allies meet in Paris with new aid, security assurances in mind
PARIS (Reuters) -France pledged 2 billion euros in military aid to Ukraine as some 30 leaders met with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Paris on Thursday to discuss how to strengthen Kyiv's position a...
Mar 27, 2025 French President Emmanuel Macron welcomes Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy as he arrives for a meeting with European leaders on peace and security for Ukraine, at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, March 27, 2025. REUTERS/Sarah Meyssonnier
US appeals court upholds block on Trump deportation of some Venezuelans
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday upheld a lower court's temporary block on the Trump administration's deportation of some Venezuelan immigrants under a little-used 18th century ...
Mar 26, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Salvadoran police officers escort alleged members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua recently deported by the U.S. government to be imprisoned in the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) prison, as part of an agreement with the Salvadoran government, in Tecoluca, El Salvador, in this handout image obtained March 16, 2025. Secretaria de Prensa de la Presidencia/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
US Supreme Court upholds federal 'ghost guns' restrictions
(Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court upheld on Wednesday a regulation targeting largely untraceable "ghost guns" imposed by Democratic former President Joe Biden's administration in a crackdown on firear...
Mar 26, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Parts of a ghost gun kit are on display at an event held by U.S. President Joe Biden to announce measures to fight ghost gun crime, at the White House in Washington U.S., April 11, 2022. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo
Hundreds stage Gaza protest against Hamas after conflict resumes
CAIRO/RAMALLAH (Reuters) -Hundreds of Palestinians have protested in northern Gaza to demand an end to war, chanting "Hamas out," social media posts showed, in a rare public show of opposition to the ...
Mar 26, 2025 Palestinians protest to demand an end to war, chanting anti-Hamas slogans, in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip March 26, 2025. REUTERS/Stringer
Pentagon's Hegseth texted planned time of targeted killing of Yemeni militant
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth texted the start time for a planned killing of a Houthi militant in Yemen on March 15 as well as other details of imminent waves of U.S. airst...
Mar 26, 2025 U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth attends a meeting with Britain's Defence Secretary John Healey (not pictured) at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 6, 2025. REUTERS/Kent Nishimura/File Photo
Trump signs election order calling for proof of U.S. citizenship to vote
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday that would require voters to prove they are U.S. citizens and attempts to prevent states from counting mail-in ba...
Mar 26, 2025 U.S. President Donald Trump looks on on the day of a meeting with U.S. ambassadors at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 25, 2025. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
U.S. homeland secretary to visit El Salvador prison holding deported Venezuelans
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Wednesday is expected to visit a mega-prison in El Salvador holding Venezuelans deported by the U.S. as civil rights groups chall...
Mar 26, 2025 U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem visits the Mariposa Port of Entry, Saturday, March 15, 2025, in Nogales, Ariz. Alex Brandon/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
Democrats urge US Justice Department probe of war plans discussion on Signal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Democratic U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and top Senate Democrats on Wednesday wrote a letter to Republican President Donald Trump and his top officials urging a Just...
Mar 26, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) walks on the day of the Senate Democrats' weekly policy lunch on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 25, 2025. REUTERS/Nathan Howard/File Photo
