Category Archives: National
Deere profit beats forecast, 2023 outlook raised; shares jump 6%
(Reuters) - Deere & Co raised its annual profit forecast on Friday after beating Wall Street estimates for the latest quarter on higher revenue for its high-horsepower tractors and an increase in ...
Feb 17, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Equipment for sale is seen at a John Deere dealer in Denver, Colorado, U.S. May 14, 2015. REUTERS/Rick Wilking
North Korea threatens military action as South, U.S. plan drills
SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea threatened on Friday an "unprecedentedly persistent, strong" response as South Korea and the United States gear up for annual military exercises as part of efforts to fend...
Feb 17, 2023 FILE PHOTO: The South Korean and American flags fly next to each other at Yongin, South Korea, August 23, 2016. Picture taken on August 23, 2016. Courtesy Ken Scar/U.S. Army/Handout via REUTERS
U.S. military completes recovery of Chinese balloon downed off South Carolina
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. military said on Friday it had successfully concluded recovery efforts off South Carolina for a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon shot down by a U.S. fighter jet, a...
Feb 17, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Sailors assigned to Assault Craft Unit 4 prepare material recovered in the Atlantic Ocean from a high-altitude Chinese balloon shot down by the U.S. Air Force off the coast of South Carolina for transport to federal agents at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek on February, 7, 2023 in this image released by the U.S. Navy in Washington, U.S., February 13, 2023. Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Ryan Seelbach/U.S. Navy/Handout via REUTERS
Five former Memphis officers plead not guilty in death of Tyre Nichols
UPDATED 3:18 p.m. MEMPHIS, Tenn. (Reuters) - Five former Memphis police officers on Friday pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder and other charges stemming from last month's beating of Tyre Nicho...
Feb 17, 2023 Five former Memphis police officers who have been charged in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols appear during an arraignment hearing at Shelby County courthouse in Memphis, Tennessee, U.S., February 17, 2023. REUTERS/Karen Pulfer Focht
Biden, 80, is healthy, 'fit for duty,' doctor says after physical
BETHESDA, Md. (Reuters) -Doctors declared U.S. President Joe Biden, 80, healthy and "fit for duty" on Thursday after a physical examination that included removing a lesion from his chest and declaring...
Feb 17, 2023 U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the economy at the IBEW Local 26 in Lanham, Maryland, U.S., February 15, 2023. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
Two more people rescued in Turkey 11 days after earthquake
KAHRAMANMARAS, Turkey (Reuters) -Two more people were pulled alive from the rubble in Turkey on Friday, 11 days after an earthquake that has killed more than 43,000 in the country and Syria, as aid ag...
Feb 17, 2023 Turkish serviceman walks along a street with two women in the aftermath of a deadly earthquake in Antakya, Turkey February 16, 2023. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov
Actor Bruce Willis diagnosed with dementia
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Actor Bruce Willis has been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia, his family said on Thursday, nearly a year after the "Die Hard" franchise star retired due to aphasia that ha...
Feb 16, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Actor Bruce Willis attends the European premiere of "Glass" in London, Britain January 9, 2019. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls
Tesla recalls 362,000 U.S. vehicles over Full Self-Driving software
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Tesla Inc said it would recall 362,000 U.S. vehicles to update its Full Self-Driving (FSD) Beta software after U.S. regulators said on Thursday the driver assistance system did n...
Feb 16, 2023 FILE PHOTO: A Tesla Model S charges at a Tesla supercharger station in Cabazon, California, U.S. May 18, 2016. REUTERS/Sam Mircovich
Biden says he'll speak to China's Xi on balloon incident
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden said on Thursday he expects to speak with China's President Xi Jinping about what the United States says was a Chinese spy balloon that a U.S. fighter jet sho...
Feb 16, 2023 U.S. President Joe Biden addresses the National Association of Counties (NACo) Legislative Conference in Washington, U.S., February 14, 2023. REUTERS/Leah Millis
Father of accused July 4th gunman arraigned in Chicago suburb
CHICAGO (Reuters) -An Illinois father was arraigned in court on Thursday on charges that he helped his underage son obtain a gun that the latter used to kill seven people at a Fourth of July parade ne...
Feb 16, 2023 Robert E. Crimo III walks into the courtroom during a hearing on Highland Park shooting in Lake County court, in Waukegan, Illinois, U.S., August 3, 2022. Nam Y. Huh/Pool via REUTERS
