Category Archives: National
Assassination of presidential candidate shocks Ecuador
QUITO (Reuters) - The assassination of Ecuadorean presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio shocked the South American country, where rising drug-related violence is a major concern for voters, le...
Aug 10, 2023 Ecuadorean presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio speaks during a campaign rally in Quito, Ecuador August 9, 2023. REUTERS/Karen Toro
Utah man killed in FBI raid linked to alleged threats against Biden, VP Harris
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The FBI said its agents shot and killed a Utah man on Wednesday during a raid that a source said targeted the man for allegedly making threats against U.S. President Joe Biden, V...
Aug 09, 2023 Midwest Communications
Biden highlights economic transformation at New Mexico wind tower plant
BELEN, New Mexico (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden took his economic pitch to New Mexico on Wednesday to boast how his signature legislation helped turn a previously shuttered facility into a wind ...
Aug 09, 2023 U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the economy at Arcosa, a wind tower manufacturing facility, in Belen, New Mexico, U.S., August 9, 2023. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
US nurse, child safely released in Haiti two weeks after kidnapping
(Reuters) - A U.S. nurse and her child have been safely released after their kidnapping in Haiti two weeks ago, a faith-based humanitarian aid organization where the nurse works said on Wednesday. "We...
Aug 09, 2023 FILE PHOTO: View shows the "El Roi", a Christian community site where the American nurse Alix Dorsainvil used to work before being kidnapped with her child, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti August 1, 2023. REUTERS/Ralph Tedy Erol/File Photo
US obtained search warrant for Trump's Twitter account in Jan. 6 probe - court
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. special counsel investigating Donald Trump obtained a search warrant for the former president's Twitter account in January and the company delayed complying, according t...
Aug 09, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. President Donald Trump and Special Counsel Jack Smith are seen in a combination of file photos in Washington, U.S., in 2023. REUTERS/Tasos Katopodis, Kevin Wurm/File Photo
Biden highlights clean energy 'boom' at New Mexico wind tower plant
ALBUQUERQUE (Reuters) - President Joe Biden will take his economic pitch to New Mexico on Wednesday with remarks at the groundbreaking of an Arcosa wind tower manufacturing facility at which the White...
Aug 09, 2023 U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on his administration's conservation efforts on the day he signs a proclamation establishing the Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument, at the Historic Red Butte Airfied in Tusayan, Arizona, U.S., August 8, 2023. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Fox Business to host second Republican debate -RNC
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Fox Business will hold the second debate of the 2024 Republican presidential contest, the Republican National Committee said on Wednesday, making the conservative Fox outlets hos...
Aug 09, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally in Windham, New Hampshire, U.S., August 8, 2023. REUTERS/Reba Saldanha/File Photo
Forty-one feared dead in migrant shipwreck in central Mediterranean
ROME (Reuters) -Italian authorities on Wednesday said forty-one migrants are thought to have died in a shipwreck last week in the central Mediterranean, according to accounts by survivors who have bee...
Aug 09, 2023 ItaliaABC / CC
Update: Winning Mega Millions ticket worth $1.58 billion sold in Florida
Updated 6:52 a.m. (Reuters) -One lucky winner was in possession of a Mega Millions ticket worth a cool $1.58 billion, the largest prize in the game's history, on Wednesday after purchasing it in Flori...
Aug 09, 2023 The display in a store shows the Mega Millions lottery jackpot at $1.55-billion in New York City, U.S., August 8, 2023. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
UPDATE: Rivian lifts 2023 EV production target, reassures on liquidity
UPDATED 5:23 P.M. (Reuters) - Rivian Automotive on Tuesday raised its full-year production forecast and its chief executive said the electric vehicle maker has enough money to last it through 2025 as ...
Aug 08, 2023 FILE PHOTO: The Rivian name and logo are shown on one of their new electric SUV vehicles in San Diego, U.S., December 16, 2022. REUTERS/Mike Blake/file photo
