Category Archives: National
UPDATE: Released by Hamas, American mother, daughter reunited with family in Israel
UPDATED 10/21 9:14 A.M. GAZA/EVANSTON, Illinois (Reuters) -Two newly freed American hostages, a Chicago-area woman and her teenage daughter, were reunited with family inside Israel on Friday as relati...
Oct 20, 2023 Chicago-area residents Judith Tai Raanan and her daughter Natalie Shoshana Raanan, two American hostages freed on Friday by the armed wing of Hamas, pose in this undated picture obtained by Reuters on October 20, 2023. Obtained by Reuters/via REUTERS
UPDATE: Republicans drop Jim Jordan's US House speaker bid after third failed vote
UPDATED 1:25 P.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Hardline conservative Republican Jim Jordan's quest to become speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives ended on Friday as his fellow Republicans revoked the...
Oct 20, 2023 U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) pauses as he speaks in front of a portrait of the first U.S. President George Washington during an early morning press conference about his continuing bid to become the next Speaker of the House of Representatives at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., October 20, 2023. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
White House asks Congress for $106 billion for Ukraine, Israel
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The White House on Friday asked Congress for nearly $106 billion to fund ambitious plans for Ukraine, Israel and U.S. border security, but offered no strategy for securing the mo...
Oct 20, 2023 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks as he visits Israel amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Tel Aviv, Israel, October 18, 2023. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/File Photo
Top Hollywood actors offer $150 million to help end strike
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Oscar winner George Clooney and other top Hollywood stars have offered $150 million to the SAG-AFTRA actors union as part of a proposal to end the actors' strike as it nears it...
Oct 20, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Actor George Clooney speaks at an event for the second year of the Roybal School of Film and Television Production Magnet at the Edward R. Roybal Learning Center in Los Angeles, California, U.S., October 13, 2023. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni/File Photo
Jim Jordan to make third try at top job in paralyzed US House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives is due to hold a third vote to fill its vacant speaker's chair on Friday, but Republicans who control the chamber appear no closer to resolving...
Oct 20, 2023 Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) departs a House Republican Conference meeting about choosing a new Speaker of the House after it was reported that Jordan vowed to continue his floundering bid for the speakership at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., October 19, 2023. REUTERS/Leah Millis
Israel pummels Gaza district, evacuates town as invasion looms
GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel leveled a northern Gaza district after giving families still there a half-hour warning to escape on Friday, and ordered the evacuation of the biggest Israeli town near...
Oct 20, 2023 A view of a damaged car covered in debris at the site of Israeli strikes on a house, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip October 20, 2023. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
US leadership 'holds the world together,' Biden says in bid for Ukraine, Israel funds
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden launched an urgent mission on Thursday to get Americans behind billions more dollars in spending for Israel and Ukraine, using a rare Oval Office speech to s...
Oct 19, 2023 U.S. President Joe Biden delivers a prime-time address to the nation about his approaches to the conflict between Israel and Hamas, humanitarian assistance in Gaza and continued support for Ukraine in their war with Russia, from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, U.S. October 19, 2023. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/Pool
UPDATE: Russia detains US journalist with dual nationality; US sees harassment
UPDATED 2:18 p.m. MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia has detained an editor at U.S.-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) for failing to register as a foreign agent while visiting for a family emergen...
Oct 19, 2023 Alsu Kurmasheva, an editor with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's (RFE/RL) Tatar-Bashkir Service, poses in this undated handout photo. Pangea Graphics (RFE/RL)/Handout via REUTERS
Israeli minister says troops will soon see Gaza 'from inside'
GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant told troops gathered at the Gaza border on Thursday that they will soon see the Palestinian enclave "from inside", suggesting an expecte...
Oct 19, 2023 Palestinians work amidst the rubble at the site of an Israeli strike, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, October 19, 2023. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
US Attorney General Garland warns of rise in threats tied to Israel-Hamas war
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said on Thursday that the Justice Department is monitoring an increase in reported threats against Jewish, Muslim and Arab communities in t...
Oct 19, 2023 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland gives a brief statement at the Justice Department in Washington, U.S., August 11, 2023. REUTERS/Bonnie Cash/File Photo
