Category Archives: National
U.S. Senator Manchin speech stokes speculation of White House run
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Maverick Democratic Senator Joe Manchin on Monday is set to address a bipartisan group in New Hampshire, a critical early-voting state in the 2024 presidential primary elections...
Jul 17, 2023 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) and other U.S senators unveil legislation that would allow the Biden administration to "ban or prohibit" foreign technology products such as the Chinese-owned video app TikTok during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., March 7, 2023. REUTERS/Bonnie Cash/File Photo
United Airlines pilots reach labor agreement, boost pay
CHICAGO (Reuters) -United Airlines and its pilots on Saturday reached a labor agreement that will give the latter a significant pay increase, after the union rejected an earlier offer last year instea...
Jul 17, 2023 FILE PHOTO: The One World Trade Center and the New York skyline are seen while United Airlines planes use the tarmac at Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, New Jersey, U.S., May 12, 2023. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz/File Photo
US remains concerned North Korea will conduct another missile test
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said on Sunday the Biden administration remains concerned that North Korea will move forward with another intercontinental ba...
Jul 16, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Hwasong-18 intercontinental ballistic missile is launched from an undisclosed location in North Korea in this image released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency on July 13, 2023. KCNA via REUTERS/FILE PHOTO
Pennsylvania inmate who escaped jail caught after nine-day manhunt
WARREN, Pa. - Authorities in Pennsylvania say a man who escaped a county prison more than a week ago has been found. Pennsylvania State Police confirm Michael Charles Burham was taken in to custody Sa...
Jul 16, 2023 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Pennsylvania State Police)
Fire breaks out at Dow Louisiana facility
(Reuters) - A fire broke out at Dow's Plaquemine chemical facility in Louisiana, the U.S. chemical maker said in a statement late on Friday. Everyone at the facility was accounted for and the fire was...
Jul 15, 2023 FILE PHOTO: A sign is seen at an entrance to a Dow Chemical Co plant in Plaquemine, Louisiana December 12, 2015. REUTERS/Jonathan Bachman/File Photo
Suspect charged with decade-old murders on New York's Long Island
NEW YORK (Reuters) -A man has been charged with the murders of three women in New York more than a decade ago and leaving their bodies near a Long Island beach, the Suffolk County District Attorney's ...
Jul 14, 2023 Suffolk County Police and investigators are pictured near the scene of the arrest of a suspect in multiple murders of up to 10 women on Long Island in Massapequa Park, New York, U.S., July 14, 2023. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
Court blocks curbs on US government contact with social media companies for now
(Reuters) -A U.S. appeals court on Friday temporarily blocked a lower court order that had sharply limited certain Biden administration officials' and agencies' contacts with social media companies. T...
Jul 14, 2023 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump departs the White House aboard Marine One ahead of the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden, in Washington, U.S., January 20, 2021. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly/File Photo
UPDATE: Jesse Jackson to retire as head of Rainbow PUSH civil rights coalition
UPDATED 9:00 P.M. (Reuters) - U.S. Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson is stepping down as head of the Chicago-based Rainbow PUSH Coalition he founded, according to remarks he made during a recent broad...
Jul 14, 2023 Deeped Niclas Strandh / CC
David's Bridal avoids shutdown with no-cash bankruptcy sale
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bankrupt wedding gown retailer David's Bridal received court approval on Friday to sell its business to asset manager Cion Investment Corp in a no-cash transaction, reaching a dea...
Jul 14, 2023 hattiesburgmemory / CC
UPDATE: US House passes defense bill authorizing record spending; Senate debate next
UPDATED 11:17 A.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. House of Representatives passed its version of a sweeping bill setting policy for the Department of Defense on Friday, but the "must-pass" bill's chan...
Jul 14, 2023 FILE PHOTO: The Pentagon building is seen in Arlington, Virginia, U.S. October 8, 2020. REUTERS/Erin Scott/
