Category Archives: National
US House Republicans to see if Mike Johnson can win speaker's gavel
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Republicans nominated Mike Johnson to lead the House of Representatives on Tuesday, though it was unclear whether he would merely become the latest hopeful to fall victim to...
Oct 25, 2023 U.S. Representative Mike Johnson is surrounded by fellow members as he speaks to reporters after securing the nomination for House Speaker from the Republican conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S. October 24, 2023. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Former White House Chief of Staff Meadows granted immunity in Jan 6 case -ABC News
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows was granted immunity to testify under oath in U.S. Special Counsel Jack Smith's Jan. 6 case over the 2020 presidential election, AB...
Oct 24, 2023 Former U.S. President Donald Trump's Chief of Staff Mark Meadows walks out of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, where a hearing on his petition to move the Fulton County case to federal court in the 2020 election case took place, in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., August 28, 2023. REUTERS/Dustin Chambers/File Photo
Alaska Air pilot in aborted flight said he used 'magic' mushrooms, documents show
(Reuters) -An off-duty pilot accused of trying to shut off the engines of an Alaska Airlines jet during a flight over the Pacific Northwest said he was having a nervous breakdown and had previously in...
Oct 24, 2023 An Alaska Airlines plane takes off from the airport in Calgary, Alberta, Canada July 10, 2023. REUTERS/Todd Korol/File Photo
'Humanitarian pause' in Hamas-Israel war is urged to aid Gaza civilians
GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The United Nations, United States and Canada appealed on Tuesday for a humanitarian pause in the Israel-Hamas war to allow safe deliveries of aid to civilians stricken by sh...
Oct 24, 2023 Palestinians inspect a petrol station that was hit in an Israeli strike, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, October 24, 2023. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
Gaza authorities say 700 Palestinians killed in overnight Israeli strikes as calls rise for aid to stricken civilians
GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - More than 700 Palestinians were killed overnight by Israeli air strikes, Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry said on Tuesday, the highest 24-hour death toll in Israel's two-wee...
Oct 24, 2023 A general view shows the house where Palestinian teenager Dima Allamdani, who fled to southern Gaza Strip with her family to avoid the constant onslaught of Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City, was sheltering in, which was hit by Israeli jets that killed 13 of her relatives, including her parents, 7 siblings and 4 members of her uncle's family, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, October 22, 2023. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
UPDATE: Emmer drops US House speaker bid as Republican infighting continues
UPDATED 4:02 P.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Representative Tom Emmer abandoned his bid to lead the House of Representatives on Tuesday, just hours after his fellow Republicans nominated him, continui...
Oct 24, 2023 U.S. Representative Tom Emmer (R-MN) arrives for a House Republican conference meeting to choose a nominee in the race for House Speaker at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., October 24, 2023. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
UPDATE: UAW strikes GM's Escalade factory, turning up pressure for higher wages
UPDATED 3:21 P.M. (Reuters) -The United Auto Workers (UAW) union on Tuesday struck a General Motors assembly plant in Texas that builds the U.S. automaker's profitable full-size sport utility vehicles...
Oct 24, 2023 FILE PHOTO: The new GM logo is seen on the facade of the General Motors headquarters in Detroit, Michigan, U.S., March 16, 2021. Picture taken March 16, 2021. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook/File Photo
UPDATE: Former Trump lawyer Ellis pleads guilty in Georgia, could testify against Trump
UPDATED 2:39 P.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A former lawyer for Donald Trump, Jenna Ellis, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to helping the then-U.S. president's efforts to overturn his 2020 election defeat in t...
Oct 24, 2023 Jenna Ellis reacts with her lawyers after reading a statement after Ellis plead guilty to a felony count of aiding and abetting false statements and writings, inside Fulton Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee?s Fulton County Courtroom, October 24, 2023, in Atlanta, U.S. Ellis, an attorney and prominent conservative media figure, reached a deal with prosecutors Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023, and pleaded guilty to a reduced charge over efforts to overturn Donald Trump?s 2020 election loss in Georgia. John Bazemore/Pool via REUTERS
UPDATE: Trump inflated asset values 'arbitrarily', former lawyer Michael Cohen says on stand
UPDATED 2:19 P.M. NEW YORK (Reuters) -Donald Trump "arbitrarily" inflated the value of his real estate assets in order to secure favorable insurance premiums, Trump's former lawyer and fixer Michael C...
Oct 24, 2023 Former attorney for former U.S. President Donald, Michael Cohen, arrives the Trump Organization civil fraud trial, in New York State Supreme Court in the Manhattan borough of New York City, U.S., October 24, 2023. REUTERS/Jeenah Moon
Louisiana 'super fog' kills 7 in massive car pile-up
(Reuters) - A Louisiana "super fog" aggravated by marsh fires led to a pile-up of 158 cars just west of New Orleans on Monday that killed seven people, injured at least 25 and left a string of crumble...
Oct 24, 2023 Vehicles pile-up due to a crash on Interstate 55 (I-55) highway in St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana, U.S., October 23, 2023, in this still image obtained from a handout video obtained by Reuters. Louisiana State Police/Handout via REUTERS
