Category Archives: National
Biden says he will announce run for re-election 'soon'
KNOCK, Ireland (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden said on Friday he has decided to run for a second term and would formally announce his re-election campaign "relatively soon." "We'll announce it rel...
Apr 15, 2023 U.S. President Joe Biden gestures during an event at St. Muredach's Cathedral in Ballina, County Mayo, Ireland, April 14, 2023. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne
Best Buy lays off hundreds of store workers in online push - WSJ
(Reuters) -Best Buy Co Inc is cutting store jobs across the United States as the electronics retailer looks to trim costs and shift its business more towards e-commerce, the Wall Street Journal report...
Apr 14, 2023 FILE PHOTO: A person walks in front of Best Buy during Black Friday sales in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.,, November 25, 2022. REUTERS/Jim Vondruska
Biden administration asks US Supreme Court to stop abortion pill limits
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The abortion pill mifepristone may not be available for months if limits on it set by lower courts are allowed to take effect, President Joe Biden's administration and the drug's...
Apr 14, 2023 FILE PHOTO: A patient prepares to take mifepristone, the first pill given in a medical abortion, at Women's Reproductive Clinic of New Mexico in Santa Teresa, U.S., January 13, 2023. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/File Photo
UPDATE - Pence is booed at NRA gathering even as he seeks to move right of Trump on guns
UPDATED 2:50 P.M. INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana (Reuters) -Former Vice President Mike Pence, a possible White House contender, looked to move to the right of his former boss and 2024 Republican front-runner D...
Apr 14, 2023 Former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence speaks at the National Rifle Association (NRA) annual convention in Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S., April 14, 2023. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
North Korea says it tested new solid-fuel ICBM, warns of 'extreme' horror
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea announced on Friday it had tested a new solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), a development set to "radically promote" its forces, which experts said woul...
Apr 14, 2023 A view of a test launch of a new solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) Hwasong-18 at an undisclosed location in this still image of a photo used in a video released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) April 14, 2023. KCNA via REUTERS TV/via REUTERS
UPDATE - Airman suspected of leaking secret US documents hit with federal charges
UPDATED 3:40 P.M. BOSTON (Reuters) -A 21-year-old member of the U.S. Air National Guard accused of leaking top secret military intelligence records online was charged on Friday with unlawfully copying...
Apr 14, 2023 Jack Douglas Teixeira, a U.S. Air Force National Guard airman accused of leaking highly classified military intelligence records online, makes his initial appearance before a federal judge in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. April 14, 2023 in a courtroom sketch. REUTERS/Margaret Small.
Justin Pearson sworn back in to Tennessee House
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) -Tennessee state Representative Justin Pearson was sworn in on Thursday morning after he was reappointed to the legislature from which he and another Democratic colleagu...
Apr 13, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Justin J. Pearson gestures after a vote for his reinstatement by the Shelby County Commission, days after the Republican majority Tennessee House of Representatives voted to expel him and Rep. Justin Jones for their roles in a gun control demonstration on the statehouse floor, in Memphis, Tennessee, U.S., April 12, 2023. REUTERS/Cheney Orr/File Photo
Appeals court refuses to decide if Trump can be shielded from rape accuser's lawsuit
NEW YORK (Reuters) -A Washington, D.C., appeals court on Thursday refused to decide whether Donald Trump can be shielded from the first of two defamation lawsuits by E. Jean Carroll, a writer who said...
Apr 13, 2023 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump rape accuser E. Jean Carroll departs from her hearing at federal court during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., October 21, 2020. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
Mother of Louisville shooter frantically called 911 to warn of his plans
(Reuters) - The mother of the 25-year-old bank employee who killed five people and wounded nine others in a shooting rampage at his Kentucky workplace on Monday had frantically called 911 to report he...
Apr 13, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Police deploy at the scene of a mass shooting outside an Old National Bank branch near Slugger Field baseball stadium in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. April, 10, 2023. REUTERS/Jeffrey Dean/File Photo
Trump back in New York for questioning in state civil fraud case
(Reuters) -Former President Donald Trump arrived in New York to be questioned Thursday in a $250 million civil fraud lawsuit against him by the state's attorney general, he said in a series of overnig...
Apr 13, 2023 Former U.S. President Donald Trump and his son Eric Trump arrive at Trump Tower, after former President Trump's indictment by a Manhattan grand jury following a probe into hush money paid to porn star Stormy Daniels, in New York City, U.S April 3, 2023. REUTERS/Jeenah Moon
