Category Archives: National
UPDATE: Israel pulverizes Gaza after Hamas attack as it collects its dead
UPDATED 3:12 P.M. JERUSALEM/GAZA/KFER AZA (Reuters) -Israeli air strikes hammered Gaza on Tuesday, razing entire districts and filling morgues with dead Palestinians as Israel took revenge for the Ham...
Oct 10, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Rockets are fired from Gaza towards Israel, in Gaza, October 10, 2023. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem/File Photo
U.S. not planning to put military on ground following attack on Israel
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government has no intention of putting military on the ground following the attacks on Israel by Islamist militant group Hamas, but it will protect U.S. interests in th...
Oct 09, 2023 John Kirby, the White House national security spokesperson speaks during White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre's press briefing at the White House in Washington, U.S., October 3, 2023. REUTERS/Leah Millis/File Photo
Hollywood writers union ratifies three-year labor contract after strike
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Members of the Writers Guild of America (WGA) approved a new three-year contract with major studios on Monday, five months after the union called a strike that plunged Hollywood...
Oct 09, 2023 FILE PHOTO: SAG-AFTRA actors and Writers Guild of America (WGA) writers walk the picket line outside Disney Studios in Burbank, California, U.S., July 25, 2023. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo
US automakers increase strike layoffs by more than 800
(Reuters) - Chrysler-parent Stellantis said on Monday it is laying off another 570 workers and General Motors announced cuts of nearly 200 employee due to the United Auto Workers strike. Ford said Mon...
Oct 09, 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
US Army chief says Congress must act to ensure arms to both Israel and Ukraine
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Army on Monday said it would need Congress to approve additional funding to ensure the Pentagon's munitions production and acquisition plans can simultaneously meet the...
Oct 09, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Secretary of the U.S. Army Christine E. Wormuth testifies during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense hearing on budget estimates for fiscal year 2022 for the Army on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., June 22, 2021. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts/File Photo
UAW workers strike Mack Trucks after rejecting contract
(Reuters) -Union workers at Volvo Group-owned Mack Trucks went on strike on Monday morning after overwhelmingly rejecting a proposed five-year contract deal, the United Auto Workers said, making it th...
Oct 09, 2023 FILE PHOTO: A United Auto Workers union member holds a sign outside Stellantis Sterling Heights Assembly Plant, to mark the beginning of contract negotiations in Sterling Heights, Michigan, U.S. July 12, 2023. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook/File Photo
RFK Jr. declares independent 2024 presidential run, raises millions more
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) -Robert F. Kennedy Jr, an environmental lawyer, anti-vaccine activist and son of the former senator, announced on Monday in Philadelphia that he is dropping his Democratic Party...
Oct 09, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. delivers his political speech at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, Iowa, U.S. August 12, 2023. REUTERS/Scott Morgan/File Photo/File Photo
US House Republicans plot next moves on leader, McCarthy says he would go back
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Less than a week after becoming the first U.S. Speaker of the House of Representatives voted out by his own caucus, Republican Kevin McCarthy told a radio interviewer on Monday ...
Oct 09, 2023 Clouds float above the U.S. Capitol, while inside the building, House Republicans search for a new Speaker of the House following the ouster of Kevin McCarthy, in Washington, U.S., October 5, 2023. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo
U.S. says nine Americans killed in Israel, others still missing
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States on Monday said nine Americans were killed in Israel and other U.S. citizens were missing, following Saturday's unprecedented Hamas attack that killed 700 Israel...
Oct 09, 2023 Smoke rises following Israeli strikes in Gaza, October 9, 2023. REUTERS/Saleh Salem
UPDATE: Israel on war footing, Hamas threatens to kill captives
UPDATED 5:49 P.M. GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -The Israeli military said on Monday it had called up an unprecedented 300,000 reservists and was imposing a total blockade of the Gaza Strip, in a sign it m...
Oct 09, 2023 An Israeli tank is positioned near Israel's border with Lebanon, northern Israel, October 9, 2023. REUTERS/Ammar Awad
