Category Archives: National
Exclusive-Drugmakers raise US prices on 350 medicines despite pressure from Trump
NEW YORK, Dec 31 (Reuters) - Drugmakers plan to raise U.S. prices on at least 350 branded medications including vaccines against COVID, RSV and shingles and blockbuster cancer treatment Ibrance, even ...
Dec 31, 2025 U.S. flag and medicines are seen in this illustration taken, June 27, 2024. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
Court allows Trump-backed cuts to Planned Parenthood's Medicaid funding in 22 states
BOSTON, Dec 30 (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday allowed President Donald Trump's administration to enforce in a collection of Democratic-led states a provision of his signature tax and dome...
Dec 30, 2025 FILE PHOTO: A Planned Parenthood building is seen in Birmingham, Alabama, March 14, 2022. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/File Photo
Trump administration must fund US consumer finance watchdog, judge says
WASHINGTON, Dec 30 (Reuters) - A federal judge on Tuesday rejected a claim by President Donald Trump's administration that it is legally barred from securing funding for the U.S. Consumer Financial Pr...
Dec 30, 2025 FILE PHOTO: The name and logo for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is seen scraped off the door of its building in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 20, 2025. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo
Zelenskiy discusses US troop presence in Ukraine with Trump
KYIV, Dec 30 (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday Kyiv was discussing with Washington a possible presence of U.S. troops in Ukraine as part of security guarantees, and a...
Dec 30, 2025 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy listens to U.S. President Donald Trump, after Trump said that Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed willingness to help Ukraine "succeed", during a press conference at Trump's Mar-a-Lago club, in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., December 28, 2025. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Kennedy Center New Year's Eve concerts canceled after addition of Trump's name
WASHINGTON, Dec 29 (Reuters) - A veteran jazz ensemble announced on Monday it was canceling its New Year's Eve performances at the Kennedy Center, the latest group to withdraw from the Washington arts...
Dec 30, 2025 A worker walks in front of the recently renamed Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts, in Washington, D.C., U.S., December 29, 2025. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu
US strikes drug boat loading facility in Venezuela, Trump says
WEST PALM BEACH, Florida, Dec 29 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Monday that the U.S. had "hit" an area in Venezuela where boats are loaded with drugs, marking the first known time Washingt...
Dec 30, 2025 U.S. and Venezuelan flags appear in this illustration taken December 2, 2025. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
Washington pipe bomb suspect has confessed, prosecutors say
WASHINGTON, Dec 29 (Reuters) - The man accused of planting pipe bombs in Washington the night before the January 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol attack confessed to the FBI and told investigators he thought the...
Dec 29, 2025 A suspect in the planting of explosive devices near the Democratic and Republican committee headquarters in Washington is seen walking past the Capitol Hill Club, also known as the National Republican Club of Capitol Hill, in Washington in this still frame taken from video released on March 9, 2021. FBI/Handout via REUTERS
FBI investigating Minnesota fraud scheme, director says
WASHINGTON, Dec 28 (Reuters) - The FBI has "surged" investigative resources and personnel to Minnesota, bureau Director Kash Patel said on Sunday, in the latest instance of the Trump administration's ...
Dec 29, 2025 Kash Patel speaks after being sworn in as FBI director by U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi in the Indian Treaty Room in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building (EEOB) on the White House campus in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 21, 2025. REUTERS/Leah Millis
US pledges $2 billion in humanitarian support to UN, State Department says
GENEVA/WASHINGTON, Dec 29 (Reuters) - The United States on Monday pledged $2 billion in life-saving assistance to tens of millions of people facing hunger and disease in more than a dozen countries ne...
Dec 29, 2025 A Palestinian girl gestures as she waits to receive food from a charity kitchen, amid a hunger crisis, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, August 4, 2025. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled
Trump and Netanyahu to discuss next phase of Gaza plan in Florida
JERUSALEM/PALM BEACH, Florida, Dec 28 - U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to push for progress in the stalled ceasefire in Gaza when he meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Mo...
Dec 29, 2025 Displaced Palestinians walk at a beach tent camp, after it was flooded by rising seawater during a winter storm in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, December 28, 2025. REUTERS/Ramadan Abed
