Category Archives: National
With an eye toward China, Biden to meet Latin leaders on economics, migration
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden welcomed leaders from Latin America, the Caribbean and Canada to the White House on Friday to discuss economic issues and migration as he seeks to bolste...
Nov 03, 2023 U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks during a visit to Dutch Creek Farms in Northfield, Minnesota, U.S., November 1, 2023. REUTERS/Leah Millis/ File Photo
UPDATE: Hezbollah tells U.S. to halt Israel's Gaza attack to prevent regional war
UPDATED 11:51 A.M. BEIRUT (Reuters) -The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah warned the United States on Friday that preventing a regional conflict depended on stopping the Israeli attack on Gaza, and said ...
Nov 03, 2023 Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah appears on a screen as he addresses his supporters during a ceremony to honour fighters killed in the recent escalation with Israel, in Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon November 3, 2023. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir
US job growth misses expectations in October as labor market slows
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. job growth slowed in October in part as strikes by the United Auto Workers (UAW) union against Detroit's "Big Three" car makers depressed manufacturing payrolls, and the in...
Nov 03, 2023 FILE PHOTO: FILE PHOTO: A "now hiring" sign is displayed outside Taylor Party and Equipment Rentals in Somerville, Massachusetts, U.S., September 1, 2022. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo
Eric Trump to face more tough questions in NY court about fraud
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Eric Trump is expected to face a second day of questions on the witness stand on Friday in a fraud trial that threatens to hobble the real-estate empire that vaulted his father Do...
Nov 03, 2023 Former U.S. President Donald Trump's son and co-defendant, Eric Trump gestures as he leaves the courtroom after attending the Trump Organization civil fraud trial, in New York State Supreme Court in the Manhattan borough of New York City, U.S., November 2, 2023. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
Biden to pay his respects to Maine shooting victims
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden will meet on Friday families and victims of a mass shooting that devastated the city of Lewiston, Maine. The trip will be yet ...
Nov 03, 2023 U.S. President Joe Biden looks on during his meeting with with the Dominican Republic's President Luis Abinader in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, U.S., November 2, 2023. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
Explainer: Sam Bankman-Fried's conviction - what's next?
(Reuters) - FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was convicted on Thursday of orchestrating a multibillion dollar fraud on the cryptocurrency exchange's customers. Here's what comes next for Bankman-Fried: W...
Nov 03, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Former FTX Chief Executive Sam Bankman-Fried, who faces fraud charges over the collapse of the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange, walks outside the Manhattan federal court in New York City, U.S. March 30, 2023. REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli
UPDATE: Blinken urges humanitarian pause; Netanyahu tells him not without hostages' release
UPDATED 12:40 P.M. TEL AVIV (Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday urged Israel to temporarily stop its military offensive on Gaza to allow for aid to enter the Palestinian enclav...
Nov 03, 2023 U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Israeli President Isaac Herzog, during his visit to Israel, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Tel Aviv, Israel November 3, 2023. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/Pool
US House passes Republicans' Israel aid bill, faces dead end in Senate
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday passed a Republican plan to provide $14.3 billion in aid to Israel as it fights Hamas, despite Democrats' insistence it has no futu...
Nov 02, 2023 Newly elected Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) makes a statement to reporters and television cameras on the outer steps of the House of Representatives as he stands in front of members of the Republican conference after being elected the new Speaker at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., October 25, 2023. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo
Nearly 80 Americans have departed Gaza, US says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States said 79 of its citizens had left the Gaza Strip in the two days since a crossing opened to Egypt while Israel attacks the Palestinian enclave in a drive against...
Nov 02, 2023 Palestinians gather at the site of Israeli strikes on houses in Bureij in the central Gaza Strip,November 2, 2023. REUTERS/Mohammed Fayq Abu Mostafa
Jury in FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried's fraud trial begins deliberations
NEW YORK (Reuters) -The jury in Sam Bankman-Fried's fraud trial began deliberations on Thursday following a monthlong trial in which prosecutors accused the FTX cryptocurrency exchange founder of stea...
Nov 02, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Former FTX Chief Executive Sam Bankman-Fried, who faces fraud charges over the collapse of the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange, walks outside the Manhattan federal court in New York City, U.S. March 30, 2023. REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli
