Category Archives: National
House Republicans cancel vote to hold FBI director in contempt
(Reuters) - Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives have abandoned plans for a vote on Thursday to hold FBI Director Christopher Wray in contempt of Congress over agency documents related to ...
Jun 08, 2023 FILE PHOTO: FBI Director Christopher Wray testifies before a Senate Appropriations Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Subcommittee hearing on President Biden’s proposed budget request for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., May 10, 2023. REUTERS/Craig Hudson
Wrestling's 'The Iron Sheik' has died
FAYETVILLE, Ga. - One of the best "bad guys" in professional wrestling history has died. His family announced on Twitter that Hossein Khosrow Ali Varizi -- better known as "The Iron Sheik" -- died Wed...
Jun 07, 2023 Russell Bernice / CC
US schools cancel recess, skylines vanish behind Canada wildfire smoke
NEW YORK (Reuters) -More than a dozen U.S. states were under air-quality alerts on Wednesday as smoke from hundreds of Canadian wildfires wafted south, casting a dull gray pallor over city skylines an...
Jun 07, 2023 The Manhattan skyline is seen covered in haze and smoke, in New York, June 7, 2023. REUTERS/Amr Alfiky
Wildfire smoke from Canada disrupts New York flights
(Reuters) - Some flights into the New York City area on Wednesday were delayed and some briefly halted because of reduced visibility from wildfire smoke from Canada. The Federal Aviation Administratio...
Jun 07, 2023 A New York Waterway ferry travels on the Hudson River shortly after sunrise, as haze and smoke caused by wildfires in Canada hang over the Manhattan skyline, in New York City, New York, U.S., June 7, 2023. REUTERS/Mike Segar
Embattled CEO Chris Licht out at CNN
(Reuters) -CNN Chairman and Chief Executive Chris Licht has stepped down from the media company, effective immediately, parent company Warner Bros. Discovery said on Wednesday. The company said that a...
Jun 07, 2023 Chris Licht arrives for the Time 100 Gala celebrating Time magazine's 100 most influential people people in the world in New York, U.S., June 8, 2022. REUTERS/Caitlin Ochs
UPDATE: Surgery on Pope Francis was without complications, Vatican says
UPDATED 12:13 P.M. ROME (Reuters) -Pope Francis underwent a three-hour surgery in a Rome hospital on Wednesday to repair a hernia most likely caused by scars from an operation in 2021, and the Vatican...
Jun 07, 2023 Pope Francis greets a nun during the weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, June 7, 2023. REUTERS/Yara Nardi
UPDATE: Ex-US Vice President Mike Pence launches 2024 election bid, attacks Trump over Jan.6
UPDATED 2:13 P.M. (Reuters) - Former Vice President Mike Pence, who once served Donald Trump loyally, on Wednesday announced he would challenge his former boss for the Republican presidential nominati...
Jun 07, 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
Gunman shoots two dead, wounds five others at Virginia high school graduation
(Reuters) -A man armed with four handguns killed two people and wounded five others when he fired into a crowd outside a high school graduation ceremony in Richmond, Virginia, on Tuesday, police said....
Jun 07, 2023 Law enforcement officers investigate at the scene after a gunman opened fire in a park as high school graduates and their families emerged from a theater where commencement exercises had just concluded, in Richmond, Virginia, U.S. June 6, 2023 in this picture obtained from social media. Clark Frierson/Instagram @by.esign/via REUTERS
US judge in Florida blocks enforcement of state ban on gender-affirming care
(Reuters) -A federal judge in Florida on Tuesday partially blocked the state from enforcing its recent ban on people under 18 receiving gender-affirming care such as puberty blockers and hormone thera...
Jun 06, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Transgender rights activist waves a transgender flag as they protest the killings of transgender women, at a rally in Washington Square Park in New York, U.S., May 24, 2019. REUTERS/Demetrius Freeman/File Photo
Peru to extradite suspect in Alabama teen murder case within days, Interpol says
LIMA (Reuters) -A convicted killer imprisoned in Peru will be extradited within days to the U.S., where he faces extortion and fraud charges related to the disappearance and murder of an Alabama teena...
Jun 06, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Dutch citizen Joran Van der Sloot (C) enters the courtroom in the Lurigancho prison in Lima January 6, 2012. Van der Sloot went on trial on Friday for killing Stephany Flores in 2010, five years to the day after a U.S. teenager vanished on the island of Aruba after spending time with him. REUTERS/Pilar Olivares
