Category Archives: National
Warnock wins re-election in Georgia runoff vote
Updated 12/7 9:40 a.m. ATLANTA (Reuters) -Democrat Raphael Warnock won re-election to the U.S. Senate in a hard-fought Georgia runoff on Tuesday, strengthening his party's razor-thin majority as he fo...
Dec 07, 2022 Reverend Raphael Warnock, Democratic Senator for Georgia, speaks during his final midterm runoff election campaign rally in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., December 5, 2022. REUTERS/Cheney Orr
Trump's company convicted of scheme to defraud tax authorities
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Donald Trump's real estate company was convicted on Tuesday of carrying out a 15-year-long criminal scheme to defraud tax authorities, adding to the legal woes facing the former U....
Dec 06, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. President Donald Trump attends a rally to support Republican candidates ahead of midterm elections, in Dayton, Ohio, U.S. November 7, 2022. REUTERS/Gaelen Morse/File Photo
McConnell says short-term U.S. government funding measure likely
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said on Tuesday it is increasingly likely that Congress will need to pass a short-term continuing resolution to fund the government...
Dec 06, 2022 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) speaks during a news conference following the weekly Republican caucus luncheon at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., U.S., November 29, 2022. REUTERS/Sarah Silbiger/File Photo
Special counsel subpoenas election officials in 3 states in Trump probe
UPDATED 2:37 P.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The special counsel overseeing two federal investigations related to Donald Trump has issued grand jury subpoenas to local election officials in Arizona, Michig...
Dec 06, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at a rally to support Republican candidates ahead of midterm elections, in Dayton, Ohio, U.S. November 7, 2022. REUTERS/Gaelen Morse/File Photo
Biden to visit Taiwan's TSMC chip plant in Arizona, hail supply chain fixes
WASHINGTON/PHOENIX, Ariz. (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden will visit TSMC's Arizona plant on Tuesday as the Taiwanese chipmaker said it will more than triple its planned investment there to $40 bi...
Dec 06, 2022
Colorado suspect formally charged for LGBTQ club shooting that killed five
UPDATE: 12:14 p.m. DENVER (Reuters) - The suspect accused of killing five people inside a Colorado Springs LGBTQ nightclub last month before patrons stopped the attack was formally charged on Tuesday ...
Dec 06, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Anderson Lee Aldrich, 22, the suspect in the mass shooting that killed five people and wounded 17 at an LGBTQ nightclub appears with state public defenders Joseph Archambault and Michael Bowman before a judge during his advisement hearing in a video link from jail, slumped to the side and in a wheelchair and showing facial injuries in Colorado Springs, Colorado, U.S. November 23, 2022 in a court artist sketch. REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg
Senate candidates head into Georgia midterm election runoff
CUMMING, Ga. (Reuters) - With Republican influence in the U.S. Senate on the line, two dozen party faithful gathered in an Atlanta suburb on Sunday for the final stretch of a get-out-the-vote effort a...
Dec 06, 2022 Reverend Raphael Warnock, Democratic Senator for Georgia, speaks during his final midterm runoff election campaign rally in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., December 5, 2022. REUTERS/Cheney Orr
Kirstie Alley, 'Cheers' and 'Look Who's Talking' Star, dies aged 71
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Kirstie Alley, the two-time Emmy-winning actress who rose to fame in her role on the hit TV series "Cheers", died on Monday after a short battle with cancer. She was 71. Alley's...
Dec 06, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Kirstie Alley arrives at the house as the reality show 'Celebrity Big Brother' starts, in Elstree, near London, Britain August 16, 2018. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls
North Carolina electric grid shooter 'knew exactly what they were doing,' sheriff says
(Reuters) -The orchestrator of gunfire attacks on power stations in North Carolina that left nearly an entire county without electricity for a second straight day knew "exactly" how to disable the sta...
Dec 05, 2022 FILE PHOTO: North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper speaks at a Democratic Party watch party as the primary elections wrap up in Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S., May 17, 2022. REUTERS/Jonathan Drake
U.S. delays enforcing tougher ID rules until May 2025
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Homeland Security Department (DHS) said Monday it will delay enforcement of rules requiring Americans to get new identification cards in order to board airplanes or ent...
Dec 05, 2022 United Airlines flight UA328, carrying 231 passengers and 10 crew on board, returns to Denver International Airport with its starboard engine on fire after it called a Mayday alert, over Denver, Colorado, U.S. February 20, 2021. Hayden Smith/@speedbird5280/Handout via REUTERS
