Category Archives: National
Trump lawyers quit documents case, and a former Trump aide is indicted
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Two lawyers defending Donald Trump on federal charges of illegally retaining classified documents quit the case on Friday and a former aide was charged as well in surprise develo...
Jun 09, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gestures after arriving at Aberdeen International Airport in Aberdeen, Scotland, Britain May 1, 2023. REUTERS/Russell Cheyne
UPDATED: Trump faces federal charges in classified documents case, adding to legal woes
UPDATED 4:56 A.M. (6/9) WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Donald Trump faces a new legal challenge - this time from the government he used to lead - with charges for illegally retaining cla...
Jun 08, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump attends a campaign event in Manchester, New Hampshire, U.S., April 27, 2023. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
Suspect in Natalee Holloway disappearance arrives in US from Peru
(Reuters) -A convicted killer long suspected in the 2005 disappearance of Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway arrived on Thursday in the U.S., where he faces extortion and fraud charges. Images broadcas...
Jun 08, 2023 Dutch citizen Joran van der Sloot, who was serving a 28-year sentence in Peru after confessing to killing a 21-year-old Peruvian woman, is escorted to the airport to be extradited to the U.S., to face charges of extortion and wire fraud against the family of Natalee Holloway, in a case linked to his alleged involvement in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway in Aruba in 2005, in Lima, Peru June 8, 2023. REUTERS/Sebastian Castaneda
Sunak, Biden sign new US-UK agreement on clean energy, AI
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Thursday agreed to deepen close economic ties between the United States and Britain, pledging to accelerate the...
Jun 08, 2023 U.S. President Joe Biden meets with Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, U.S., June 8, 2023. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
US weekly jobless claims race to 1-1/2-year high, economists urge caution
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits surged to the highest level in more than 1-1/2 years last week, but layoffs are probably not accelerating as ...
Jun 08, 2023 Hundreds of people line up outside the Kentucky Career Center, over two hours prior to its opening, to find assistance with their unemployment claims, in Frankfort, Kentucky, U.S. June 18, 2020. REUTERS/Bryan Woolston
UPDATE: Washington quiets as Canadian smoke blankets U.S. capital
UPDATED 5:25 P.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The shroud of polluted air emanating from Canadian wildfires pushed further down the Atlantic Seaboard on Thursday, blanketing Washington, D.C., in an unhealthy...
Jun 08, 2023 The One World Trade Center tower in lower Manhattan in New York City is pictured shortly after sunrise as haze and smoke caused by wildfires in Canada hang over the Manhattan skyline in as seen from Jersey City, New Jersey, U.S., June 8, 2023. REUTERS/Mike Segar
UPDATE: Pat Robertson, televangelist who mobilized Christian voters, dead at 93
UPDATED 9:48 A.M. (Reuters) - Pat Robertson, the televangelist who helped turn Christian conservatives into a potent force in U.S. politics, died at age 93 at his Virginia home, the Christian Broadcas...
Jun 08, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Evangelical Christian leader Pat Robertson takes his seat onstage ahead of a campaign rally with Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney in Virginia Beach, Virginia September 8, 2012. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
Pence attacks Trump as he challenges his ex-boss in 2024 White House race
(Reuters) -Former Vice President Mike Pence, who loyally served Donald Trump for four years, on Wednesday blasted his former boss for the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol as he launched his campaign fo...
Jun 08, 2023 Former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence is greeted by supporters as he arrives with his wife Karen to make a U.S. presidential campaign announcement kicking off his race for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination at a Future Farmers of America "enrichment center" in Ankeny, Iowa, U.S. June 7, 2023. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Hollywood actor becomes latest arrested in Jan 6 Capitol assault
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A Hollywood actor who has appeared on such TV shows as "Arrested Development" and the cartoon hit "Bob's Burgers," was arrested on Wednesday for his role in the U.S. Capitol ri...
Jun 08, 2023 FILE PHOTO: A mob of supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump fight with members of law enforcement at a door they broke open as they storm the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, U.S., January 6, 2021. REUTERS/Leah Millis
Trump lawyers notified that he is the target of classified documents probe
(Reuters) -Federal prosecutors have notified former U.S. President Donald Trump's attorneys he is the target of an investigation into his handling of classified materials, a person familiar with the m...
Jun 08, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump attends a campaign event in Manchester, New Hampshire, U.S., April 27, 2023. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo
