Category Archives: National
US Congress tees up votes in last-minute scramble to avert shutdown
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lawmakers return to the U.S. Congress on Saturday with no clear path to resolving a squabble that appears likely to close wide swaths of the federal government, from national pa...
Sep 30, 2023 U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) speaks with reporters after a House Republican conference meeting following a series of failed votes on spending packages at the U.S. Capitol ahead of a looming government shutdown in Washington, U.S. September 29, 2023. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Ford CEO says UAW holding labor deal 'hostage' over fate of battery plants
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ford Motor Chief Executive Jim Farley on Friday accused the United Auto Workers union of holding up a new U.S. labor agreement in a bid to force the automaker to pay workers at ...
Sep 29, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Ford Motor President and CEO Jim Farley talks about the Mustang GTD during the press day of the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Michigan, U.S. September 13, 2023. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook/File Photo
Top US general Milley takes apparent jab at Trump as he retires
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top U.S. general Mark Milley retired on Friday after a four-year tenure, saying in a speech that U.S. troops take an oath to the Constitution and not a "wannabe dictator," an ap...
Sep 29, 2023 20th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark A. Milley reacts on the day of the Armed Forces Farewell Tribute in honor of General Milley and an Armed Forces Hail in honor of General Brown, at Summerall Field at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall, Arlington, Virginia, U.S., September 29, 2023. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
Trump ally Scott Hall agrees to plea deal in Georgia elections case
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Donald Trump ally and former Republican poll watcher Scott Hall on Friday pleaded guilty to conspiring to interfere with Georgia's elections as part of the former U.S. president...
Sep 29, 2023 Republican poll watcher Scott Hall 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 22, 2023. Fulton County Sheriff's Office/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
UPDATE: Prosecutors charge suspect in 1996 shooting of US rapper Tupac Shakur
UPDATED 5:27 P.M. (Reuters) -A Nevada grand jury has indicted an accused former gang leader with the murder of hip-hop star Tupac Shakur three decades ago, authorities said on Friday, a breakthrough i...
Sep 29, 2023 Rapper Tupac Shakur at the MTV Music Video Awards in New York City, September 4, 1996. REUTERS/Mike Segar
Long-serving US Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein dead at 90
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Dianne Feinstein, a long-serving Democratic U.S. senator from California and gun control advocate who spearheaded the first federal assault weapons ban and documented the CIA's t...
Sep 29, 2023 U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) attends a Senate Judiciary Committee executive business meeting to vote on legislation and pending nominations before the committee, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., May 11, 2023. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/ File Photo
Appeals court will not delay Donald Trump civil fraud trial
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York appeals court on Thursday refused to delay Donald Trump's scheduled Oct. 2 civil fraud trial, after the former U.S. president accused the trial judge of wrongly refusin...
Sep 29, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump addresses the Pray Vote Stand Summit, organized by the Family Research Council in Washington, U.S. September 15, 2023. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
UPDATE: Ford, UAW clash as union expands strikes
UPDATED 2:44 P.M. DETROIT (Reuters) -Ford Motor Chief Executive Jim Farley on Friday accused United Auto Workers leaders of holding up a new U.S. labor agreement and halting production at several fact...
Sep 29, 2023 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
Hardline Republican holdouts push U.S. government closer to shutdown
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. federal government was two days from a partial shutdown on Friday, as a handful of hardline House Republicans refused to support a bipartisan stopgap spending bill mean...
Sep 29, 2023 U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) speaks with reporters as the deadline to avert a partial government shutdown approaches on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., September 28, 2023. REUTERS/Craig Hudson/ File Photo
UPDATE: Shutdown looms as US Senate, House advance separate spending plans
UPDATED: 10:45 P.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Democratic-led U.S. Senate forged ahead on Thursday with a bipartisan stopgap funding bill aimed at averting a fourth partial government shutdown in a de...
Sep 28, 2023 U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) speaks with reporters as the deadline to avert a partial government shutdown approaches on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., September 28, 2023. REUTERS/Craig Hudson
