Category Archives: National
Trump said he has no bigger healthcare plans: Obamacare will 'repeal itself'
WASHINGTON, Dec 19 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said he does not plan to unveil a broader healthcare overhaul and that there was no need to repeal the Affordable Care Act, which provides ac...
Dec 19, 2025 U.S. President Donald Trump delivers an address to the nation from the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., December 17, 2025. Doug Mills/Pool via REUTERS
Pentagon says it fails eighth audit, targets 2028 to pass
WASHINGTON, Dec 19 (Reuters) - For the eighth year in a row, the Pentagon has failed an annual audit, the Department of Defense said on Friday, continuing a pattern of financial accountability problem...
Dec 19, 2025 A general view of the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., U.S., October 15, 2025. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
Trump administration officials race to meet Friday deadline for Epstein files
Dec 19 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's Justice Department faces a Friday deadline to release a massive trove of documents from its investigations into the late financier and convicted sex offende...
Dec 19, 2025 A giant photo of U.S. President Donald Trump and late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is displayed on the National Mall by activist groups Glasgow Actions Team and Everyone Hates Elon, ahead of the expected release of the Epstein files, in Washington D.C. U.S. December 15, 2025. REUTERS/Leah Millis
TikTok signs deal to sell US unit to American investor-led venture
WASHINGTON, Dec 18 (Reuters) - TikTok's Chinese owner, ByteDance, signed binding agreements with three major investors to sell just over 80% of the company's U.S. assets to American and global investo...
Dec 18, 2025 FILE PHOTO: The TikTok app icon on a smartphone in this illustration taken October 27, 2025. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
Update: Gunman in Brown University shooting found dead, linked to MIT killing
Updated at 4 a.m. BOSTON/PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Dec 18 (Reuters) - The suspect in last weekend's mass shooting at Brown University is dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, with investigators ce...
Dec 18, 2025 A member of the FBI returns equipment to their vehicle at a storage facility where the Brown University shooter, identified by authorities as Claudio Neves Valente, took his own life, in Salem, New Hampshire, U.S., December 18, 2025. REUTERS/CJ Gunther
Seven dead in fatal plane crash including former NASCAR driver Greg Biffle
Dec 18 (Reuters) - Seven people were killed Thursday in the crash of a Cessna 550 business jet in Statesville, North Carolina, including former NASCAR driver Greg Biffle, NASCAR said. The plane crashe...
Dec 18, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Driver Greg Biffle poses for photographs in front of the new 2013 Ford stock car after an announcement during the NASCAR Media Tour in Concord, North Carolina, January 24, 2012. REUTERS/Chris Keane/File Photo
The Kennedy Center is adding 'Trump' to its name, White House says
WASHINGTON, Dec 18 (Reuters) - The board of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, which President Donald Trump filled with allies during a broad takeover earlier this year, has decided t...
Dec 18, 2025 People walk along the front of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, after White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt announced that the Kennedy Center board decided to rename the institution the Trump-Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., U.S., December 18, 2025. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
US House passes bill to speed energy infrastructure permits despite environmental concerns
Dec 18 (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation on Thursday that would streamline environmental reviews and speed permitting for large energy infrastructure projects, data cent...
Dec 18, 2025 The U.S. Capitol building at dusk in Washington, D.C., U.S., October 20, 2025. REUTERS/Kylie Cooper
Trump expected to sign $1 trillion annual defense bill
WASHINGTON, Dec 18 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday plans to sign into law a nearly $1 trillion annual defense policy bill, despite its provisions providing new aid to Ukraine and r...
Dec 18, 2025 U.S. President Donald Trump delivers a speech at the Pentagon, in Washington D.C., U.S., September 11, 2025. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
Trump moves to ease US marijuana regulations, sparking industry hopes
WASHINGTON, Dec 18 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an order recommending the loosening of federal regulations on marijuana, a move that could further reverse decades of toug...
Dec 18, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Marijuana plants are seen inside the Glass House Farms flowering greenhouse in Camarillo, California, U.S., April 13, 2022. Picture taken April 13, 2022. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/File Photo
