Category Archives: National
US Supreme Court sides with man who sent female musician barrage of unwanted messages
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out the stalking conviction of a Colorado man who sent hundreds of unwanted Facebook messages to a female musician, ruling that state pros...
Jun 27, 2023 FILE PHOTO: News media gather outside the front of the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, U.S. September 30, 2022. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo
UPDATE: U.S. judge says Trump's NY criminal case likely belongs in state court
UPDATED 5:10 P.M. (Reuters) -A U.S. judge on Tuesday said he would likely decline former U.S. President Donald Trump's request to move from state court to federal court a criminal case stemming from a...
Jun 27, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. President Donald Trump appears by video conferencing before Justice Juan Merchan during a hearing before his trial over charges that he falsified business records to conceal money paid to silence porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016, in Manhattan state court in New York City, U.S. May 23, 2023. in this courtroom sketch. REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg/File Photo
Trump's aide Walt Nauta again delays plea in federal documents case
MIAMI (Reuters) - Donald Trump's aide Walt Nauta's arraignment on charges of helping the former president hide national security documents was postponed until July 6 on Tuesday because he still did no...
Jun 27, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Walt Nauta, aide of former U.S. President Trump, appears on classified document charges after a federal indictment at Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr. United States Courthouse, in Miami, Florida, U.S., June 13, 2023 in a courtroom sketch. REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg/File Photo
Putin praises Russian troops for putting down mutiny as Prigozhin jet reaches Belarus
(Reuters) -President Vladimir Putin praised members of Russia's military and security forces in a ceremony on Tuesday as he sought to reassert his authority following an aborted mutiny by mercenaries ...
Jun 27, 2023 Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin leaves the headquarters of the Southern Military District amid the group's pullout from the city of Rostov-on-Don, Russia, June 24, 2023. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko
'Taco Tuesday' owners fire back after Taco Bell's trademark challenge
(Reuters) - Fast-food chain Taco John's and New Jersey-based Gregory's Restaurant & Bar urged the U.S. Trademark Office on Friday to reject petitions by Taco Bell to cancel their federal trademark...
Jun 26, 2023 FILE PHOTO: The logo of Taco Bell, a subsidiary of Yum! Brands, Inc. is seen on a store in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., February 7, 2022. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly
DeSantis details hardline border plan, looking to compete with Trump
(Reuters) - Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on Monday provided his most detailed plan yet for securing the U.S. southern border with Mexico as he tries to make up ground against Donald Trump in the race...
Jun 26, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Florida Governor and Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis speaks at the North Carolina Republican Party convention in Greensboro, North Carolina, U.S. June 9, 2023. REUTERS/Jonathan Drake/File Photo
US to spend $42 billion to make internet access universal by 2030
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Monday divvied up $42 billion among the nation's 50 states and U.S. territories to make access to high-speed broadband universal by 2030, as it launched a new...
Jun 26, 2023 U.S. President Joe Biden announces a $42.45 billion national grant program for high-speed internet infrastructure deployment called the Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) program, at the White House in Washington, U.S., June 26, 2023. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Top US Republican threatens impeachment probe of attorney general over Hunter Biden
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives is threatening an impeachment investigation of Attorney General Merrick Garland over the Justice Department's criminal pr...
Jun 26, 2023 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) stops to speak to reporters in front of an East Wing portrait of former first lady and former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as he arrives to attend a State Dinner hosted by President Biden for India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the White House in Washington, U.S., June 22, 2023. REUTERS/Julia Nikhinson/File Photo
UPDATE: At least 3 dead, dozens of homes damaged after storms hit US Midwest, South
UPDATED 9:50 A.M. (Reuters) - Tornadoes and thunderstorms hit the U.S. Midwest and South on Sunday, leaving dozens of homes damaged and at least three people dead in Indiana and Arkansas, authorities ...
Jun 26, 2023 Debris is lifted into the air by a possible tornado during severe weather near Greenwood, Indiana, U.S., June 25, 2023 in this screen grab obtained from a social media video. Eric Ford via TMX/via REUTERS /File photo
Wagner mutiny shows Moscow's 'big strategic mistake' in attacking Kyiv - NATO
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The aborted mutiny by Russia's Wagner mercenary group at the weekend demonstrated the scale of the Kremlin's strategic mistake in waging war on Ukraine, NATO Secretary-General Jen...
Jun 26, 2023 NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg holds a news conference at the alliance's headquarters in Brussels, Belgium November 16, 2022. REUTERS/Yves Herman/File photo
