Category Archives: National
Trump administration defends deportations as Chief Justice slams impeachment call
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration on Tuesday defended the deportation of Venezuelans after a judge temporarily banned removing people from the United States under an 18th-century law, as...
Mar 18, 2025 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
UPDATE: Trump, Putin agree to seek 30-day halt on Russia-Ukraine energy facility strikes
UPDATED 1:19 P.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump agreed on Tuesday to seek a limited 30-day ceasefire against energy and infrastructure targets...
Mar 18, 2025 Artist Alexei Sergienko walks towards his painting “Peace to the world" showing a combination of faces of Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump, at the Sergienko gallery in Saint Petersburg, Russia March 17, 2025. REUTERS/Anton Vaganov
NASA astronauts head home on SpaceX capsule after drawn-out space station stay
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams departed the International Space Station early on Tuesday morning in a SpaceX capsule for a long-awaited trip back to Earth, nine...
Mar 18, 2025 Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, two veteran NASA astronauts who have been stuck on the International Space Station for nine months, wave at the hatch of a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule before closing the hatch in preparation for undocking from the ISS to begin their return to Earth March 17, 2025 in this still image taken from video. NASA/Handout via REUTERS
Israeli strikes kill over 400 in Gaza, say Palestinians, threatening total truce collapse
CAIRO/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli airstrikes pounded Gaza, killing more than 400 people, Palestinian health authorities said on Tuesday, threatening the complete collapse of a two-month ceasefire as...
Mar 18, 2025 Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli strike on a residential building in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip March 18, 2025. REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa
Some 80,000 pages of JFK files will be released Tuesday, Trump says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump, who has ordered the release of classified documents related to the 1963 assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, said on Monday that his adm...
Mar 17, 2025 U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media after attending a board meeting at the Kennedy Center, in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 17, 2025. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
Trump vows to hold Iran responsible for Houthi attacks
WASHINGTON/ADEN (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he would hold Iran responsible for any attacks carried out by the Houthi group that it backs in Yemen, as his administration expa...
Mar 17, 2025 FILE PHOTO: People gather on the rubble of a house hit by a U.S. strike in Saada, Yemen March 16, 2025. REUTERS/Naif Rahma/File Photo
US Postal Service seeks DOGE's help on retail leases, counterfeit postage
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said on Monday he had asked the government efficiency team led by Elon Musk for assistance with a number of issues, including a review of the ...
Mar 17, 2025 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy responds to a question during an interview with Reuters at the U.S. Postal Service Headquarters in Washington, U.S., April 20, 2022. Picture taken April 20, 2022. REUTERS/Leah Millis/File photo
UPDATE: Trump says he and Putin will discuss power plants, land in talks to end Ukraine war
UPDATED 12:56 P.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said he would speak to Russia's Vladimir Putin on Tuesday about ending the Ukraine war, with territorial concessions by Kyiv and c...
Mar 17, 2025 Firefighters work at the site of an apartment building hit by a Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Chernihiv, Ukraine March 16, 2025. REUTERS/Maksym Kishka
Trump administration deports Venezuelans despite court order, says judge has no authority
By Nathan Layne, Jack Queen and Helen Coster -The Trump administration has deported alleged members of a Venezuelan gang from the U.S. despite a court order forbidding it from doing so, saying in an e...
Mar 17, 2025 Salvadoran police officers escort alleged members of the 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
US death toll from extreme weather over the weekend rises to 36
(Reuters) -Portions of Pennsylvania, New York and Mid-Atlantic and Southeast states were still under a National Weather Service watch for damaging wind and tornadoes, as the death toll from weekend st...
Mar 17, 2025 Debris lies around damaged houses the morning after a tornado touched down in Florissant, Missouri, U.S. March 15, 2025. REUTERS/Lawrence Bryant
