Category Archives: National
Some 1,500 migrants crossed Rio Grande into El Paso on Sunday - witness
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) - About 1,500 people crossed the Rio Grande overnight from Mexico into El Paso, Texas, a Reuters witness said on Monday, amid an increase in migrant arrivals in the are...
Dec 13, 2022 Migrants, among them Nicaraguans who were kidnapped by organised crime in the state of Durango and were released days later by the Mexican Army, queue near the border wall after crossing the Rio Bravo river to turn themselves in to U.S. Border Patrol agents to request asylum in the U.S. city of El Paso, Texas, as seen from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico December 12, 2022. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez
FTX founder Bankman-Fried, charged with fraud, may fight extradition to U.S.
NASSAU, Bahamas/NEW YORK (Reuters) -Sam Bankman-Fried indicated in a Bahamas courtroom on Tuesday that he would fight extradition to the United States, hours after U.S. prosecutors accused the founder...
Dec 13, 2022 FILE PHOTO: FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried poses for a picture, in an unspecified location, in this undated handout picture, obtained by Reuters on July 5, 2022. FTX/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
November CPI cools down, spelling relief for markets
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S consumer prices barely rose in November amid declines in the cost of gasoline and used cars, leading to the smallest annual increase in inflation in nearly a year, which could...
Dec 13, 2022 People shop in a supermarket as rising inflation affects consumer prices in Los Angeles, California, U.S., June 13, 2022. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson
Fusion energy breakthrough announced by U.S. scientists
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. scientists on Tuesday revealed a scientific advance on fusion energy which, if it can make the leap from labs to commercial generation of electricity in coming decades, cou...
Dec 13, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Technicians use a service system lift to access the target chamber interior for inspection and maintenance at the National Ignition Facility (NIF), a laser-based inertial confinement fusion research device, at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory federal research facility in Livermore, California, United States in 2008. Philip Saltonstall/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory/Handout via REUTERS
Lockerbie bombing suspect appears briefly in U.S. court
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A Libyan intelligence operative suspected of making the bomb that blew up Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988, killing 270 people, appeared in a federal court in ...
Dec 12, 2022 Abu Agila Mohammad Masud Kheir Al-Marimi, accused of making the bomb that blew up Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie in Scotland in 1988, is shown in this Alexandria Sheriff's Office photograph taken in Alexandria,Virginia on December 11, 2022. Alexandria, VA Sheriff's Office/Handout via REUTERS
U.S. officials to meet Russians on Paul Whelan case -White House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Senior U.S. officials plan to have talks this week with Russian counterparts to discuss the case of Paul Whelan, an American imprisoned in Russia, days after attempts to gain his...
Dec 12, 2022 A view shows the Penal Colony IK-17, which is the correction facility where American Paul Whelan was transferred to serve a 16-year sentence on the espionage charges, in Ozerny settlement in the region of Mordovia, Russia December 1, 2022. REUTERS/Stringer/File Photo
US special counsel subpoenas Georgia's election official -W.Post
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. special counsel Jack Smith has issued a subpoena to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to appear before a grand jury, The Washington Post reported on Monday, citi...
Dec 12, 2022 Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger attends a news conference a day after midterm elections, in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. November 9, 2022. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo
Massive snowstorm targets large swath of United States
(Reuters) - A powerful winter storm system moved across the U.S. Northwest, Plains and Southwest on Monday, bringing frigid temperatures, blizzard-like conditions and freezing rains that threatened to...
Dec 12, 2022 Midwest Communications
U.S. Supreme Court rejects Michigan State's appeal in Title IX swimming case
(Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to consider how strictly to interpret the landmark Title IX civil rights law's protections for gender equality in college sports in a lawsuit chall...
Dec 12, 2022 FILE PHOTO: The sun sets on the U.S. Supreme Court building after a stormy day in Washington, U.S., November 11, 2022. REUTERS/Leah Millis
U.S. Supreme Court takes up second Biden appeal in student debt plan fight
(Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear President Joe Biden's appeal of a judge's ruling that found his plan to cancel billions of dollars in student debt unlawful, taking up the m...
Dec 12, 2022
