Category Archives: National
UPDATE: Trump criminally charged in New York, a first for a US ex-president
UPDATED 6:07 P.M. NEW YORK (Reuters) -Donald Trump has been indicted by a Manhattan grand jury after a probe into hush money paid to porn star Stormy Daniels, becoming the first former U.S. president ...
Mar 30, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. President Donald Trump arrives onstage to announce that he will once again run for U.S. president in the 2024 U.S. presidential election, during an event at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S. November 15, 2022. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
FTX's Bankman-Fried pleads not guilty to campaign finance, China bribery charges
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Indicted FTX cryptocurrency exchange founder Sam Bankman-Fried pleaded not guilty on Thursday to new U.S. charges of conspiring to violate campaign finance laws and bribe Chinese ...
Mar 30, 2023 Former FTX Chief Executive Sam Bankman-Fried, who faces fraud charges over the collapse of the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange, leaves the Manhattan federal court in New York City, U.S. March 30, 2023. REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli
Protesters demand action on guns at Tennessee statehouse
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - Protesters flooded Tennessee's statehouse on Thursday to demand lawmakers stiffen gun laws following a school shooting in Nashville that left six people dead, three of...
Mar 30, 2023 Protesters gather inside the Tennessee State Capitol to call for an end to gun violence and support stronger gun laws after a deadly shooting at the Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. March 30, 2023. REUTERS/Cheney Orr
Russia detains Wall Street Journal reporter Gershkovich on suspicion of spying
LONDON (Reuters) - A Moscow court ruled that a U.S. journalist for the Wall Street Journal should be detained for nearly two months on suspicion of spying, the most serious move against a foreign jour...
Mar 30, 2023 Reporter for U.S. newspaper The Wall Street Journal Evan Gershkovich appears in an undated handout image taken in an unknown location. The Wall Street Journal/Handout via REUTERS
U.S. investigating Minnesota train carrying ethanol that derailed, prompting evacuation
(Reuters) - The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Railroad Administration are investigating the derailment Thursday of a freight train carrying ethanol near a small town in Min...
Mar 30, 2023 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg visits the site of the derailment of a train carrying hazardous waste in East Palestine, Ohio, U.S., February 23, 2023. REUTERS/Alan Freed
Republican energy bill passes U.S. House, sends to Senate
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday passed a Republican energy reform bill intended to bolster U.S. oil and gas production while scaling back climate initiatives, the ...
Mar 30, 2023 FILE PHOTO: The sun sets behind the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, U.S., October 6, 2021. REUTERS/Leah Millis/File Photo
Biden on Friday to visit Mississippi town devastated by tornado
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden will visit Rolling Fork, Mississippi, on Friday after the town was devastated by a tornado last week that killed 26 people, the...
Mar 30, 2023 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden walks after getting off Marine One to board Air Force One, after surveying storm-damaged areas of California's central coast, in Moffett Federal Airfield, Santa Clara County, California, U.S., January 19, 2023. REUTERS/Leah Millis
US weekly jobless claims rise moderately; fourth-quarter GDP trimmed
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits rose moderately last week, showing no signs yet that tightening credit conditions were having a material impa...
Mar 30, 2023 FILE PHOTO: A job seeker leaves the job fair for airport related employment at Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., December 7, 2021. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
UPDATE: Pope Francis in much better health after antibiotics, Vatican says
UPDATE: 1:59 P.M. VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Pope Francis has seen a marked improvement in his health after receiving an infusion of antibiotics for an infectious bronchitis, the Vatican said in an upbea...
Mar 30, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Pope Francis speaks during a general audience at St Peter's Square, Vatican City, March, 29, 2023. Vatican Media/Handout via REUTERS
Update: Nine killed in crash of two US Army helicopters in Kentucky
UPDATED: 1:19 P.M. (Reuters) -Nine soldiers were killed in a crash of two medical evacuation Black Hawk helicopters during a routine nighttime training mission over Kentucky, the U.S. Army said on Thu...
Mar 30, 2023 A general view of the site after helicopters crashed in Trigg County, Kentucky, U.S., March 29, 2023. WKDZ Radio/Handout via REUTERS
