Category Archives: National
Trump's lawyer calls civil rape case an affront to justice system
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Donald Trump's lawyer on Monday called a rape and defamation case brought by the writer E. Jean Carroll against the former U.S. president an affront to the justice system. During c...
May 08, 2023 Joe Tacopina, lawyer of former U.S. President Donald Trump, makes closing arguments during a civil trial where former Elle magazine advice columnist E. Jean Carroll accuses Trump of raping her in a department store dressing room in the mid-1990s, and of defamation, in New York, U.S., May 8, 2023 in this courtroom sketch. REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg
UPDATE: Texas gunman may have embraced white supremacy, victims identified
UPDATED 8:29 P.M. (Reuters) -The man Texas authorities say killed eight people in a barrage of gunfire at a Dallas-area shopping mall over the weekend left behind a social media profile filled with wh...
May 08, 2023 Officers with the Allen Police Department man the mobile command post the day after a gunman shot multiple people at the Dallas-area Allen Premium Outlets mall in Allen, Texas, U.S. May 7, 2023. REUTERS/Jeremy Lock
Woman who sued over Subway tuna seeks to quit case; Subway demands sanctions
(Reuters) - The California woman suing Subway for claiming its tuna products contain ingredients other than tuna wants to end her lawsuit because she is pregnant, prompting Subway to demand her lawyer...
May 08, 2023 FILE PHOTO: A man walks past a Subway sandwich store in central London January 22, 2014. Subway, one of the largest fast-food chains in the world, plans to open over 1,200 new stores in the UK and Ireland by 2020, creating another 13,000 jobs, it said on Wednesday. REUTERS/Andrew Winning/File Photo
Texas deploys special border force to drive back expected migrant surge
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Texas deployed a special border force on Monday to target "hot spots" where migrants try to enter the United States illegally after sweeping COVID-19 restrictions at the Mexican...
May 08, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Migrants cross the Rio Bravo river with the intention of turning themselves in to the U.S. Border Patrol agents, as seen from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico May 5, 2023. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez/File Photo
UPDATE: Texas driver charged with manslaughter after deadly Brownsville crash
UPDATED 5:26 P.M. (Reuters) - A Texas man accused of crashing his car into a group of pedestrians near a Brownsville homeless shelter housing migrants, killing eight people, has been charged with mans...
May 08, 2023 George Alvarez, 34, accused of mowing down a group of pedestrians with his SUV near a homeless shelter that attends to migrants, attends his arraignment charged with eight counts of manslaughter in Brownsville, Texas, U.S. May 8, 2023 in a still image from video. Brownsville Police Department/Handout via REUTERS
Biden, McCarthy aim to break US debt-ceiling standoff as default crisis looms
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden and top Republicans and Democrats from Congress are set to sit down this week to try to resolve a three-month standoff over the $31.4 trillion U.S. debt ceil...
May 08, 2023 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden hands a copy of the speech to U.S. Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) prior to delivering State of the Union address his State of the Union address at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., February 7, 2023. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/File Photo
Former FCC Chair Newton Minow, who called 1960s TV 'vast wasteland', dies at 97
(Reuters) - Former U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chair Newton Minow, who lambasted television as a "vast wasteland" more than 60 years ago and challenged the broadcast world to come up with i...
May 07, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Former Federal Communications Commission Chair Newton Minow is pictured in undated file photo./File Photo
UPDATE: Texas police seek motive in mall shooting that killed 8
UPDATED 10:06 P.M. 5/7 23 (Reuters) - Texas police on Sunday were investigating what motivated a 33-year-old gunman to kill at least eight people at a mall over the weekend, as President Joe Biden cal...
May 06, 2023 A girl runs as other shoppers leave with their hands up after police responded to a gunman who shot and killed eight people and wounded at least seven others at Allen Premium Outlets mall north of Dallas, in Allen, Texas, U.S. May 6, 2023 in a still image from video. REUTERS/Reuters TV
Horse racing-Mage sprints to victory at the Kentucky Derby
(Reuters) - Mage won the 149th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky, on Saturday to capture the first leg of U.S. thoroughbred racing's Triple Crown. Mage, who fini...
May 06, 2023 May 6, 2023; Louisville, KY, USA; Jockey Javier Castellano raises his fist in celebration after he and Mage won the 149th Kentucky Derby on Saturday at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky. May, 6, 2023. Mandatory Credit: Matt Stone-USA TODAY Sports
King Charles III crowned at London's Westminster Abbey
LONDON (Reuters) -King Charles III was crowned on Saturday in Britain's biggest ceremonial event for seven decades, a sumptuous display of pageantry dating back 1,000 years. In front of a congregation...
May 06, 2023 King Charles III arrives for his coronation at Westminster Abbey, London. Picture date: Saturday May 6, 2023. Andrew Matthews/Pool via REUTERS
