Category Archives: National
Student accused of shooting two faculty members in Denver found dead
DENVER (Reuters) -The student who was accused of shooting and wounding two faculty members at his Denver high school has been found dead near his vehicle in Park County. The Park County Coroners Offic...
Mar 23, 2023 A wanted bulletin released by Denver police included a mugshot of a 17-year-old student identified by police as 17-year-old Austin Lyle sought in the school shooting in Denver, Colorado, March 22, 2023. Denver Police/Handout via REUTERS
Wall St ends sharply lower after Powell warns inflation fight continues
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wall Street gyrated to end sharply lower on Wednesday after the U.S. Federal Reserve delivered a widely expected 25 basis point policy hike, while hinting that it was on the verge...
Mar 22, 2023 Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., March 16, 2023. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
UPDATE: Fed delivers small rate increase, says 'some additional' tightening possible
UPDATED 2:24 P.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Federal Reserve on Wednesday raised interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point, but indicated it was on the verge of pausing further increases in bor...
Mar 22, 2023 FILE PHOTO: A person walks past the Park Avenue location of the First Republic Bank, in New York City, U.S., March 10, 2023. REUTERS/David 'Dee' Delgado
TikTok would be tough to ban in the US without a new law, experts say
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Biden administration is under pressure to ban popular Chinese-owned social media app TikTok, but any such move likely hinges on passage of a new law that bolsters the govern...
Mar 22, 2023 FILE PHOTO: A person holds a smartphone as Tik Tok logo is displayed behind in this picture illustration taken November 7, 2019. Picture taken November 7, 2019. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/File Photo
Moderna CEO defends $130 COVID vaccine price in Senate hearing
(Reuters) - Moderna Inc's chief executive on Wednesday defended the company's plan to quadruple the price of its COVID-19 vaccine, telling U.S. lawmakers it will no longer have the economies of scale ...
Mar 22, 2023 FILE PHOTO: CEO of Moderna Stephane Bancel looks up at the session "State of the Pandemic" during the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, January 18, 2023. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann/File Photo
UPDATE: Charges unlikely Wednesday in Trump hush-money probe as grand jury stays home
UPDATED 2:21 p.m. NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former President Donald Trump appeared unlikely to face criminal charges on Wednesday after a law enforcement source said a grand jury investigating alleged ille...
Mar 22, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks on education as he holds a campaign rally with supporters, in Davenport, Iowa, U.S. March 13, 2023. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Biden honors Springsteen, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Mindy Kaling
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden made an observation when conferring the National Medal of Arts on rocker Bruce Springsteen on Tuesday: "Bruce, some people are just born to run, man." S...
Mar 22, 2023 National Medal of Arts recipient, musician and singer Bruce Springsteen shakes hands with U.S. President Joe Biden after the president presented Springsteen with his medal during a ceremony in the East Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., March 21, 2023. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
Putin, Xi pledge friendship but talks yield no Ukraine breakthrough
(Reuters) - Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin emerged from two days of talks on Tuesday with warm words of friendship between China and Russia and joint criticism of the West, but no sign of a diplomatic ...
Mar 21, 2023 Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping attend a signing ceremony at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia March 21, 2023. Sputnik/Vladimir Astapkovich/Kremlin via REUTERS
Judge to Trump: Trial date in NY civil fraud case 'written in stone'
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York judge on Tuesday rejected former U.S. President Donald Trump's bid to delay the scheduled Oct. 2 trial in state Attorney General Letitia James' civil fraud lawsuit, cal...
Mar 21, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks on education as he holds a campaign rally with supporters, in Davenport, Iowa, U.S. March 13, 2023. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
SVB Financial Group accuses FDIC of cutting it off from cash
(Reuters) - SVB Financial Group said on Tuesday the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation had taken "improper actions" to cut it off from cash held at its former subsidiary Silicon Valley Bank, w...
Mar 21, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Destroyed SVB (Silicon Valley Bank) logo is seen in this illustration taken March 13, 2023. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
