Category Archives: National
Supreme Court seeks U.S. government view on charter school's skirt requirement
(Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday asked President Joe Biden's administration to weigh in on whether the justices should decide whether a publicly funded charter school in North Carolina may ...
Jan 09, 2023 FILE PHOTO: The sun sets on the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, U.S., January 26, 2022. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts
U.S. says traffic deaths fell slightly in first nine months of 2022
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. traffic deaths fell 0.2% in the first nine months of 2022, reversing a sharp rise in the two prior pandemic years when speeding and other unsafe behavior increased, regulato...
Jan 09, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Traffic is pictured at twilight along 42nd St. in the Manhattan borough of New York, U.S., March 27, 2019. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
NFL-Bills safety Hamlin released from hospital, returns to Buffalo
UPDATED 3:09 P.M. (Reuters) -Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin has been released from a Cincinnati hospital one week after suffering a cardiac arrest during an NFL game and has returned to Buffalo, Ne...
Jan 09, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Jan 3, 2023; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; A scoreboard message in support of injured Buffalo Bills and former Pittsburgh Panthers defensive back Damar Hamlin is shown during the first half between the Pittsburgh Panthers and the Virginia Cavaliers basketball teams at the Petersen Events Center. Mandatory Credit: Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY Sports
U.S. watchdog accuses Rep. George Santos of breaking campaign finance laws
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal watchdog on Monday accused newly elected Republican U.S. Representative George Santos of breaking campaign finance laws by concealing funding sources and using donor m...
Jan 09, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Newly elected freshman Rep. George Santos (R-NY), embroiled in a scandal over his resume and claims made on the campaign trail, sits alone in the House Chamber surrounded only by the children of other representatives, on the first day of the 118th Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., January 3, 2023. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo
Georgia grand jury probing Trump ends work, unclear if charges coming
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Georgia special grand jury investigating whether former President Donald Trump and his allies unlawfully sought to interfere in the state's 2020 U.S. presidential election re...
Jan 09, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Donald Trump departs Trump Tower two days after FBI agents searched his Mar-a-Lago Palm Beach home, in New York City, New york, U.S., August 10, 2022. REUTERS/David 'Dee' Delgado/File Photo
U.S. House to vote on rules that will constrain McCarthy's power
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives will vote on Monday on the rules that will govern it for the next two years, in a first test of newly elected Republican Speaker Kevin McCarthy...
Jan 09, 2023 FILE PHOTO: U.S. House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) wields the Speaker's gavel after being elected the next Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives in a late night 15th round of voting on the fourth day of the 118th Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., January 7, 2023. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
Biden visits U.S.-Mexico border as immigration issue heats up
EL PASO, Texas (Reuters) -President Joe Biden visited the U.S.-Mexico border on Sunday for the first time since taking office, tackling one of the most politically charged issues in the country as he ...
Jan 09, 2023 U.S. President Joe Biden speaks with border patrol officers as he walks along the border fence during his visit to the U.S.-Mexico border to assess border enforcement operations, in El Paso, Texas, U.S., January 8, 2023. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
Putin praises Russian Orthodox Church for backing troops in Ukraine
(Reuters) -President Vladimir Putin on Saturday praised the Russian Orthodox Church for supporting Moscow's forces fighting in Ukraine in an Orthodox Christmas message designed to rally people behind ...
Jan 07, 2023 Russian President Vladimir Putin attends the Orthodox Christmas service at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia January 7, 2023. Sputnik/Mikhail Klimentyev/Kremlin via REUTERS
Kevin McCarthy elected Republican U.S. House speaker, but at a cost
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican Kevin McCarthy was elected speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives early on Saturday, after making extensive concessions to a group of right-wing hardliners that...
Jan 07, 2023 Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) bangs the Speaker's gavel for the first time after being elected the next Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives in a late night 15th round of voting on the fourth day of the 118th Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., January 7, 2023. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
Biden awards medals to Jan. 6 heroes who 'did not flinch'
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden on Friday marked the second anniversary of the U.S. Capitol attack with an award ceremony for those who battled to defend America's democracy against attacker...
Jan 06, 2023 U.S. President Joe Biden presents a Presidential Citizens Medal to Georgia election worker Shaye Moss, as fellow Citizens Medal recipients, former MPD police Officer Michael Fanone; Moss's mother and fellow election worker Ruby Freeman; and U.S. Capitol Police Sergeant Aquilino Gonell, applaud during a ceremony marking two years since the January 6, 2021, attack on U.S. Capitol, in the East Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., January 6, 2023. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
