Category Archives: National
U.S. Congress creeps toward deadline to pass $1.5 trillion funding bill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress faces a Friday deadline to fund the federal government, as Democrats and Republicans bicker over the details of an expected roughly $1.5 trillion funding bill ...
Dec 12, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A Secret Service officer maintains a watch on the 22nd day of a partial government shutdown at the White House in Washington, U.S., January 12, 2019. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts
NASA's Orion capsule returns to Earth, capping Artemis I flight around moon
(Reuters) - NASA's Orion capsule barreled through Earth's atmosphere and splashed down in the Pacific ocean on Sunday after making an uncrewed voyage around the moon, winding up the inaugural mission ...
Dec 12, 2022 U.S. Navy divers attach winch cables to NASA's Orion capsule after being successfully secured by a NASA and U.S. Navy team, off the coast of Baja California, Mexico, 11 December 2022. CAROLINE BREHMAN/Pool via REUTERS
U.S. says working on 'next steps' to secure release of Whelan from Russia
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Biden administration officials will meet early Monday to discuss next steps in securing the release of former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan, who was jailed in Russia in 2020 on spying...
Dec 12, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan stands inside a defendants' cage during his verdict hearing in Moscow, Russia June 15, 2020. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/File Photo
Lockerbie plane bombing suspect taken into U.S. custody
LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A man accused of making the bomb that killed 270 people after it blew up Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie in Scotland in 1988 is in custody in the United States, Scottish...
Dec 11, 2022 FILE PHOTO: File photo: Scottish crash investigators at the site of the Lockerbie Pan Am flight 103 bombing in 1988.. Greg Bos/REUTERS
U.S. sportswriter Wahl dies suddenly while covering World Cup
WASHINGTON/DOHA (Reuters) - Well-known U.S. soccer journalist Grant Wahl died suddenly on Friday after collapsing while covering a match at the World Cup in Qatar, his agent said. U.S. Soccer said it ...
Dec 10, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Grant Wahl, who claimed that he was briefly detained when he tried to enter a World Cup stadium in Qatar while wearing a rainbow shirt in support of the LGBTQ community, is seen in a "selfie" photograph in Al Rayyan, Qatar, in this picture released on November 21, 2022 and obtained from social media. Grant Wahl via Twitter/via REUTERS
Brittney Griner's return reignites debate about prisoner swaps
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Thursday's release of U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner in exchange for a convicted Russian arms dealer has resurfaced an old question: Do prisoner swaps do more harm than go...
Dec 10, 2022 FILE PHOTO: U.S. basketball player Brittney Griner, who was detained at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport and later charged with illegal possession of cannabis, walks after the court's verdict in Khimki outside Moscow, Russia August 4, 2022. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina
Former Minnesota police officer sentenced in George Floyd case
(Reuters) -A former Minneapolis police officer on Friday was sentenced to 3-1/2 years in prison for his involvement in the death of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man who was killed when a fellow poli...
Dec 09, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A woman takes part in a march and vigil on the second anniversary of the death of George Floyd, a Black man who was killed in 2020 by white police officer Derek Chauvin by kneeling on his neck, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. May 25, 2022. REUTERS/Eric Miller
U.S. Justice Dept asks judge to hold Trump team in contempt in documents probe -report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department has asked a federal judge to hold Donald Trump's office in contempt of court for failing to fully comply with a subpoena to return all classified docu...
Dec 09, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. President Donald Trump makes an announcement of his plans to run for president in the 2024 U.S. presidential election at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S. November 15, 2022. REUTERS/Octavio Jones/File Photo
November PPI a bit hotter than expected
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. producer prices increased a bit more than expected in November, but the underlying trend in inflation is moderating, which could allow the Federal Reserve to slow its pace of...
Dec 09, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A worker arranges slabs in the factory at IceStone, a manufacturer of recycled glass countertops and surfaces, in New York City, New York, U.S., June 3, 2021. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly/File Photo/File Photo
Kyrsten Sinema leaves Democratic Party, adding drama to tight U.S. Senate margin
UPDATED 11:48 A.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona is leaving the Democratic Party to become an independent, she said on Friday, just days after Democrats won a Senate ra...
Dec 09, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Senator Kyrsten Sinema, a Democrat from Arizona, speaks during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee confirmation hearing for Shalanda Young, director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) nominee for U.S. President Joe Biden, in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 1, 2022. Al Drago/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
