Category Archives: National
US existing home sales drop to 13-year low in September
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. existing home sales dropped to a 13-year low in September as surging mortgage rates and tight supply combined to reduce affordability for many first-time buyers. Existing h...
Oct 19, 2023 FILE PHOTO: A "For Rent, For Sale" sign is seen outside of a home in Washington, U.S., July 7, 2022. REUTERS/Sarah Silbiger/File Photo
UPDATE: Biden to sell Americans on billions for Israel, Ukraine in speech
UPDATED 3:45 p.m. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden will try to sell Americans on the need to spend billions more dollars on Israel and Ukraine on Thursday, even as the U.S. House of Represent...
Oct 19, 2023 U.S. President Joe Biden speaks at a dinner hosted by the Human Rights Campaign at the Washington Convention Center in Washington, U.S., October 14, 2023. REUTERS/Ken Cedeno/File Photo
UPDATE: Republican Jim Jordan revives fight after pausing campaign for US House Speaker
UPDATED 2:53 P.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Hardline conservative Jim Jordan vowed to continue his floundering bid for speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday, after his fellow Republican...
Oct 19, 2023 Speaker of the House Pro Tempore Patrick McHenry (R-NC) talks with U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), currently the top contender in the race to be the next Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, prior to a a second round of voting to try to elect a new Speaker of the House on the floor of the House of Representatives at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., October 18, 2023. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz
Ex-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell pleads guilty, could testify in Georgia case
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A former lawyer for Donald Trump on Thursday pleaded guilty to aiding the former U.S. president's efforts to overturn his election defeat in the state of Georgia, agreeing to tes...
Oct 19, 2023 Sidney Powell is shown in a police booking mugshot released by the Fulton County Sheriff's Office, after a Grand Jury brought back indictments against former U.S. president Donald Trump and 18 of his allies in their attempt to overturn the state's 2020 election results in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. August 23, 2023. Fulton County Sheriff's Office/Handout via REUTERS
US weekly jobless claims drop to nine-month low
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits fell to a nine-month low last week, suggesting that strong job growth persisted in October as the labor market...
Oct 19, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Signage for a job fair is seen on 5th Avenue after the release of the jobs report in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., September 3, 2021. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly/File Photo
Ford lays off another 150 workers citing UAW strike
(Reuters) - Ford Motor said late on Wednesday it is laying off another 150 workers in Michigan because of the ongoing United Auto Workers strike, bringing the total to 2,730 workers furloughed. Ford s...
Oct 19, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Striking United Auto Workers (UAW) union workers picket outside the Ford Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne, Michigan, U.S., September 23, 2023. REUTERS/Dieu-Nalio Chery/File Photo
Trip to Israel ties Biden and US to any Gaza offensive
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - He came to bolster Israel's fight against Hamas and to offer aid to Palestinians suffering under an Israeli siege, but by flying into Tel Aviv when he did, U.S. President Joe Bi...
Oct 19, 2023 U.S. President Joe Biden attends a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as he visits Israel amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Tel Aviv, Israel, October 18, 2023. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
Fractured US House Republicans to try again to elect a leader
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives will hold a third vote to elect a speaker on Thursday, in an attempt to overcome divisions that have immobilized the leaderless ...
Oct 19, 2023 After thirteen rounds of voting the chair of the Speaker of the House still sits empty on the dais of the U.S. House of Representatives on the fourth day of the 118th Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., January 6, 2023. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/File Photo
Oscar-nominated 'Rocky' actor Burt Young dead at 83
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Veteran character actor Burt Young, best known and Oscar nominated for his role as the brother-in-law and meat-cutting friend to Sylvester Stallone's prize-fighting protagonist...
Oct 18, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Actor Sylvester Stallone (R) stands with co-star Burt Young before the premiere of the film "Rocky Balboa" in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 18, 2006. REUTERS/Tim Shaffer/File Photo
Dutch man confesses to 2005 killing of US teen Natalee Holloway in Aruba
(Reuters) -Joran van der Sloot, the prime suspect in the 2005 death of Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway, admitted to killing her on a beach on the Caribbean island of Aruba, a confession he made in p...
Oct 18, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Dutch citizen Joran van der Sloot, who was serving a 28-year sentence in Peru after confessing to killing a 21-year-old Peruvian woman, is escorted to the airport to be extradited to the U.S., to face charges of extortion and wire fraud against the family of Natalee Holloway, in a case linked to his alleged involvement in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway in Aruba in 2005, in Lima, Peru June 8, 2023. REUTERS/Sebastian Castaneda/File Photo
