Category Archives: National
Hawaiian Electric denies Maui lawsuit claims about cause of wildfire, shares surge
(Reuters) -Hawaiian Electric's shares jumped nearly 40% on Monday after the electric utility disputed accusations that its power lines caused the deadly wildfires in Maui earlier this month. Maui Coun...
Aug 28, 2023 FILE PHOTO: A view of burned debris after wildfires devastated the historic town of Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii, U.S., August 10, 2023. Hawai'i Department of Land and Natural Resources/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
Storm Idalia seen strengthening to hurricane ahead of Florida landfall
(Reuters) - Tropical Storm Idalia was expected to intensify into a major hurricane on Monday as it barreled toward Florida's Gulf Coast, where authorities urged millions of residents to prepare to eva...
Aug 28, 2023 (National Weather Service)
UPDATE: Trump says he will appeal trial date given in federal election case
UPDATED 2:39 P.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday said he will appeal the trial date of March 2024 in the case wherein he has been criminally charged over attempts ...
Aug 28, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, U.S., July 29, 2023. REUTERS/Lindsay DeDario/File Photo
Russia says genetic tests confirm Wagner chief Prigozhin died in plane crash
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian investigators said on Sunday that genetic tests had confirmed that Yevgeny Prigozhin, chief of the Wagner mercenary group, was among the 10 people killed in a plane crash las...
Aug 28, 2023 Yevgeny Prigozhin, chief of Russian private mercenary group Wagner, gives an address in camouflage and with a weapon in his hands in a desert area at an unknown location, in this still image taken from video possibly shot in Africa and published August 21, 2023. Courtesy PMC Wagner via Telegram via REUTERS/File photo
Mark Meadows' lawyers to argue for moving Georgia election case to federal court
ATLANTA (Reuters) - Lawyers for Donald Trump's onetime chief of staff Mark Meadows are set to argue in court Monday that a federal judge should take over a Georgia criminal case alleging he and the fo...
Aug 28, 2023 Mark Meadows 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 24, 2023. Fulton County Sheriff's Office/Handout via REUTERS/File photo
Sixty years after King's 'dream' speech, thousands gather in Washington
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Thousands of Americans on Saturday commemorated the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington, a pivotal event in the 1960s U.S. civil rights movement at which Martin Luther Ki...
Aug 28, 2023 Demonstrators for racial justice gather on the 60th anniversary of the March On Washington and Martin Luther King Jr's historic "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C, U.S., August 26, 2023. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Jacksonville shooter killed Black shoppers with legally purchased guns
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The white gunman who shot and killed three Black people at a Dollar General store in Jacksonville, Florida on Saturday was a 21-year-old who bought his guns legally and had no cr...
Aug 28, 2023 The photograph of Ryan Christopher Palmeter, 21, is shown at a news conference after being identified by Sheriff T.K. Waters as the white man who killed three Black people before shooting himself at a Dollar General store August 26, in what local law enforcement described as a racially motivated crime in Jacksonville, Florida, U.S. August 27, 2023. Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office/Handout via REUTERS.
Trump raised $7.1 million since he was booked Thursday at an Atlanta jail
(Reuters) -Former President Donald Trump has raised nearly $20 million in the past three weeks, a period that roughly coincides with his indictment in federal and state cases connected to his false cl...
Aug 27, 2023 FILE PHOTO: T-shirts and hats with an image depicting the mugshot of former President Donald Trump are pictured at the Y-Que printing store in Los Angeles, California, U.S., August 25, 2023. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni
Three US Marines die in Australia aircraft crash during exercises
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Three U.S. Marines died in an aircraft crash off the coast of northern Australia on Sunday while transporting troops during a routine military exercise, officials said. Five others ...
Aug 27, 2023 A helicopter takes off following U.S. military aircraft crash in Darwin, Australia, August 27, 2023 in this screen grab obtained from a handout video. AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION/via Reuters TV/Handout via REUTERS
Long-time US TV game show host Bob Barker dies at age 99 -media
(Reuters) - Bob Barker, an affable fixture on U.S. television for half a century who hosted the popular game show "The Price Is Right" for 35 years and was a committed animal rights activist, has died...
Aug 26, 2023 Bob Barker, 83, waves goodbye at the end of the taping of his final episode of the game show 'The Price Is Right' with one of the show's models (R) in Los Angeles, California June 6, 2007. REUTERS/Fred Prouser
