Category Archives: National
California, Northeast menaced by late-season winter storms
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - California, reeling from a month-long string of late-winter storms, braced for another bout of heavy rains, wind and snow on Monday, while most of New York state and New Englan...
Mar 14, 2023 FILE PHOTO: A general view shows flooded streets in Pajaro, California, U.S., March 12, 2023, in this screengrab obtained from a social media video. Instagram @terrywayphoto via REUTERS
Southwest to upgrade crew-scheduling software, hire more staff during winter
(Reuters) - Southwest Airlines Co said on Tuesday it would upgrade its crew scheduling software and hire more staff in the winter, as the airline attempts to address gaps that led to large-scale cance...
Mar 14, 2023 FILE PHOTO: A Southwest Airlines jetliner lands at Chicago Midway International Airport in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., December 27, 2022. REUTERS/Kamil Krzaczynski/File Photo
Biden executive order reinforces background checks for gun buyers
UPDATED 2:12 P.M. (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden issued an executive order on Tuesday that reinforced background checks for gun buyers in what the White House is promoting as the most comprehens...
Mar 14, 2023 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden embraces Jackie Hegarty, a Sandy Hook school shooting survivor during the 10th Annual National Vigil for All Victims of Gun Violence in Washington, U.S. December 7, 2022. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo
Tech execs race to save startups from 'extinction' after SVB collapse
PALO ALTO, California (Reuters) - Technology executives, prominent venture capitalists and founders including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman raced this weekend to keep alive companies caught up in the collapse...
Mar 14, 2023 FILE PHOTO: The main entrance of Silicon Valley Bank is pictured in Menlo Park, California, U.S. March 10, 2023. REUTERS/Michaela Vatcheva
Biden administration approves massive Willow oil project in Alaska
LOS ANGELES/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Biden administration is approving a scaled-back version of ConocoPhillips' $7 billion oil and gas drilling Willow project in Alaska, the U.S. Department of Interi...
Mar 13, 2023 FILE PHOTO: A polar bear keeps close to her young along the Beaufort Sea coast in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska in a March 6, 2007 REUTERS/Susanne Miller/USFWS/handout/File Photo
Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen set to testify before grand jury
(Reuters) -Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's former lawyer and fixer, is expected to testify on Monday afternoon before a Manhattan grand jury investigating hush money payments he has said he orchestrated...
Mar 13, 2023 Michael Cohen, former attorney for former U.S. President Donald Trump, arrives to the New York Courthouse in New York City, U.S., March 13, 2023. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz
Hate crimes in US surged 11.6% in 2021, fueled by race, ethnic bias
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Hate crimes in the United States surged 11.6% in 2021 from 2020, with the most frequent ones fueled by racial, ethnic and ancestral bias, the FBI said on Monday. The FBI in a new...
Mar 13, 2023 FILE PHOTO: An FBI logo is pictured on an agent's shirt in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S. October 19, 2021. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
UPDATE: Biden wants $886 billion defense budget with eyes on Ukraine and future wars
UPDATED 12:37 P.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden's biggest peacetime U.S. defense budget request of $886 billion includes a 5.2% pay raise for troops and the largest allocation on record f...
Mar 13, 2023 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden speaks to the news media after attending a closed Senate Democratic Caucus lunch at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 2, 2023. REUTERS/Leah Millis
North Korea launches missiles from submarine as U.S.-South Korean drills begin
SEOUL (Reuters) -Nuclear-armed North Korea test-fired two strategic cruise missiles from a submarine on Sunday, state news agency KCNA said on Monday, just as U.S.-South Korea military drills were due...
Mar 13, 2023 A general view as North Korea fired two missiles from a submarine striking an underwater target, according to state media, at an undisclosed location in North Korea March 12, 2023 in this photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). KCNA via REUTERS
Biden says US banking system is safe after SVB, Signature collapse
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden declared the US banking system "safe" and vowed stiffer bank regulation, after U.S. regulators were forced to step in with a series of emergency measures afte...
Mar 13, 2023 U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks about his budget for fiscal year 2024 at the Finishing Trades Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., March 9, 2023. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
