Category Archives: National
Trump to 'draw down' 700 immigration agents in Minnesota
By Maria Tsvetkova and Jonathan Allen FORT SNELLING, Minnesota, Feb 4 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's administration will reduce the number of federal immigration enforcement agents in Minne...
Feb 04, 2026 A protester faces law enforcement officers after federal immigration agents raided a home in St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S., November 25, 2025. REUTERS/Tim Evans
Trump signs spending bill that ends four-day government shutdown
By David Morgan, Richard Cowan and Bo Erickson WASHINGTON, Feb 3 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a spending deal into law that ends a partial U.S. government shutdown and giv...
Feb 04, 2026 U.S. President Donald Trump signs a bill to end the partial government shutdown, while U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) and Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) stand by his side, at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 3, 2026. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
Iran demands changes in venue and scope of talks with US, source says
DUBAI/WASHINGTON, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Iran is demanding that talks with the U.S. this week be held in Oman not Turkey, and that the scope be narrowed to two-way negotiations on nuclear issues only, a re...
Feb 03, 2026 FILE PHOTO: Iranian clerics stand in the Islamic seminary that was burned during Iran's protests, in Tehran, Iran, January 21, 2026. Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS
UPDATE: Trump signs spending bill that ends four-day government shutdown
UPDATED 3:53 P.M. WASHINGTON, Feb 3 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a spending deal into law that ends a partial U.S. government shutdown and gives lawmakers time to negotiat...
Feb 03, 2026 U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA ) speaks with reporters as he departs meeting with members of the House Rules Committee, at the U.S. Capitol on day three of a partial government shutdown in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 2, 2026. REUTERS/Al Drago
Judge in Charlie Kirk case to consider bid to disqualify prosecutors
By Andrew Hay Feb 3 (Reuters) - Lawyers for the man accused of assassinating conservative activist Charlie Kirk will urge a judge on Tuesday to dismiss the prosecution team due to alleged conflict of ...
Feb 03, 2026 Fourth District Court Judge Tony Graf presides over a hearing for Tyler Robinson, suspect in the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk, in Provo, Utah, U.S., on January 16, 2026. Bethany Baker/Pool via REUTERS
Clintons agree to testify in Epstein congressional probe ahead of contempt vote
By Ismail Shakil, David Morgan and Kanishka Singh Feb 2 (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, will testify in a congressional in...
Feb 03, 2026 Former U.S. President Bill Clinton arrives with his wife, former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton for the inauguration ceremonies swearing in Donald Trump as the 45th president of the United States on the West front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., January 20, 2017. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
Trump says US lawmakers are close to resolution on government funding
WASHINGTON, Feb 2 (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers in Congress are nearing a resolution aimed ending a partial government shutdown, U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday. Trump told reporters that he h...
Feb 02, 2026 A view inside the U.S. Capitol rotunda on day two of a partial government shutdown in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 1, 2026. REUTERS/Ken Cedeno
Zelenskiy says Russia largely observing energy ceasefire ahead of peace talks
KYIV, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Russia has largely observed a ceasefire on Ukraine's energy infrastructure, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday as Kyiv prepared for the next round of trilateral talks...
Feb 02, 2026 FILE PHOTO: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy attends a press conference with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany December 15, 2025. REUTERS/Annegret Hilse/File Photo
US House takes up deal to restore government funding, Tuesday vote expected
WASHINGTON, Feb 2 (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives takes up legislation on Monday that would lift a partial government shutdown that started over the weekend, with a final vote expected o...
Feb 02, 2026 The U.S. Capitol dome as members of the U.S. House of Representatives returned to Washington after a 53-day break, for a vote that could bring the longest U.S. government shutdown in history to a close, in Washington, D.C., U.S., November 12, 2025. REUTERS/Nathan Howard
US judge declines to halt Trump's Minnesota immigration agent surge
By Jack Queen Jan 31 (Reuters) - A Minnesota federal judge on Saturday declined to order a halt to President Donald Trump's immigration enforcement crackdown in Minneapolis, in a lawsuit by state offi...
Feb 02, 2026 FILE PHOTO: Demonstrators attend an "ICE Out" protest, after the fatal shootings of Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti by U.S. federal immigration agents, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S., January 30, 2026. REUTERS/Tim Evans/File Photo
