Category Archives: National
Justice Department seeks 25-year prison sentence for Oath Keepers founder Rhodes
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department asked a federal judge on Friday to sentence Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes to 25 years in prison for his conviction on seditious conspiracy and ...
May 06, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes is seen on video during the hearing of the U.S. House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the United States Capitol, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., June 9, 2022. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
U.S. Supreme Court halts execution of Oklahoma inmate Glossip
EDITOR'S NOTE: Glossip is a native of Galesburg, Illinois, in Knox County. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday halted the scheduled execution of Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Gl...
May 05, 2023 FILE PHOTO: An anti-death penalty button is worn by a demonstrator attending a protest against the scheduled execution of convicted murderer Richard Glossip, at the state capitol in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma September 15, 2015. REUTERS/Nick Oxford
WHO declares end to COVID global health emergency
LONDON (Reuters) -The World Health Organization ended the global emergency status for COVID-19 on Friday more than three years after its original declaration, and said countries should now manage the ...
May 05, 2023 FILE PHOTO: The ultrastructural morphology exhibited by the 2019 Novel Coronavirus is seen in an illustration released by the U.S.Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. January 29, 2020. Alissa Eckert, MS; Dan Higgins, MAM/CDC/Handout via REUTERS.
Biden says Republicans manufacturing a crisis over debt limit
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden sharply criticized 'MAGA' Republicans for their refusal to vote in a higher federal debt ceiling, signaling that there would be little compromise from th...
May 05, 2023 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden arrives to attend Catholic Mass at Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Washington, U.S., April 30, 2023. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz
UPDATE: U.S. CDC chief Rochelle Walensky stepping down in June
UPDATED 4:34 P.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky, a top health official who oversaw the agency's contentious response to the...
May 05, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Dr. Rochelle Walensky, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director, testifies during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing on the monkeypox outbreak, in Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., September 14, 2022.
CDC to scale back data collection as US ends COVID health emergency
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Friday it would stop reporting or monitoring COVID-19 case data and transmission rates after the government end...
May 05, 2023 FILE PHOTO: A general view of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia September 30, 2014. REUTERS/Tami Chappell/File Photo
US job growth accelerates in April; jobless rate falls to 3.4%
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. job growth accelerated in April while wage gains increased solidly, pointing to sustained labor market strength that could compel the Federal Reserve to keep interest rates...
May 05, 2023 FILE PHOTO: An employee hiring sign with a QR code is seen in a window of a business in Arlington, Virginia, U.S., April 7, 2023. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz
World leaders gather in London for King Charles' coronation
LONDON (Reuters) - King Charles will hold a reception on Friday for world leaders gathered in London for his coronation this weekend, the biggest ceremonial event to be staged in Britain for 70 years....
May 05, 2023 A man walks past a shop's display window in Durham, Britain, May 5, 2023. REUTERS/Lee Smith
Chokehold death of homeless man on New York subway ruled a homicide
(Reuters) - The death of a man who was placed in a chokehold by a fellow passenger on a New York City subway train earlier this week has been ruled a homicide by the city's medical examiner as calls f...
May 04, 2023 Subway riders walk at the Broadway-Lafayette subway station, after according to local media reports a 30-year-old man acting erratically on a F subway train died on Monday afternoon after a fellow rider restrained him with a chokehold according to the police and a video of the encounter, in New York City, U.S., May 3, 2023. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
Republican debt-limit plan would cut US jobs, slow growth, economist tells Senate panel
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Republican plan to cut federal spending in exchange for lifting the U.S. government's debt ceiling would lower employment, slow economic growth and "meaningfully increase" the...
May 04, 2023 FILE PHOTO: A cyclist passes by the U.S. Capitol building, on the morning of the first day of the 118th Congress in Washington, DC, U.S., January 3, 2023. REUTERS/Jon Cherry/File Photo
