Category Archives: National
North Korea fires suspected ICBM, warns U.S. against 'dangerous' choices
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and South Korea agreed on Thursday to seek new measures to demonstrate the alliance's "determination and capabilities" following repeated North Korean provocat...
Nov 03, 2022 Men walk past a TV broadcasting a news report on North Korea firing a ballistic missile off its east coast, in Seoul, South Korea, November 3, 2022. REUTERS/ Heo Ran
Biden warns election deniers pose threat, blames Trump
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that threats by some Republican candidates to refuse to accept results from the Nov. 8 elections if they lose is a threat to democracy and ...
Nov 02, 2022 U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign rally for the Democratic Party's senatorial candidate Val Demings and gubernatorial candidate Charlie Crist, in Miami Gardens, Florida, U.S. November 1, 2022. REUTERS/Marco Bello
Three attorneys general file lawsuit seeking to block Albertsons' $4 billion payout
NEW YORK (Reuters) -The attorneys general of Washington D.C., California and Illinois filed a lawsuit on Wednesday in a federal court seeking to block grocer Albertsons' $4 billion dividend payout to ...
Nov 02, 2022 FILE PHOTO: The Albertsons logo is seen on an Albertsons grocery store, as Kroger agrees to buy rival Albertsons in a deal to combine the two supermarket chains, in Rancho Cucamonga, California, U.S., October 14, 2022. REUTERS/Aude Guerrucci
Fed delivers big rate hike, signals possible smaller increases ahead
UPDATED 2:56 P.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Federal Reserve on Wednesday raised interest rates by three-quarters of a percentage point as it continued to battle the worst outbreak of inflation in 40 y...
Nov 02, 2022 FILE PHOTO: The Federal Reserve building is pictured in Washington, DC, U.S., August 22, 2018. REUTERS/Chris Wattie
Pelosi attack suspect told police he was on 'suicide mission,' prosecutors say
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -The man charged with breaking into U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's home and clubbing her husband with a hammer later told police he was on a "suicide mission" and had planne...
Nov 02, 2022 David Wayne DePape, 42, who is charged with breaking into U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco home and clubbing her husband in the head with a hammer, wears his arm in a sling before San Francisco Superior Court Judge Diane Northway at the Criminal courts in San Francisco, California U.S. November 1, 2022 in this courtroom sketch. REUTERS/Vicki Behringer
North Korea fires 23 missiles, one landing off South Korean coast for first time
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea fired at least 23 missiles into the sea on Wednesday, including one that landed less than 40 miles off South Korea's coast, which the South's President Yoon Suk-yeol desc...
Nov 02, 2022 People watch a TV broadcasting a news report on North Korea firing three ballistic missiles into the sea, in Seoul, South Korea, November 2, 2022. Yonhap via REUTERS
Florida school mass shooter sentenced to life in prison
UPDATED 5:09 P.M. (Reuters) -Nikolas Cruz, who murdered 17 students and staff with a semi-automatic rifle at a Florida high school, was formally sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday after listenin...
Nov 02, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A memorial is viewed by parents and students on campus at a memorial on the one year anniversary of the shooting which claimed 17 lives at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, U.S., February 14, 2019. REUTERS/Joe Skipper
IAEA's Ukraine inspections to address 'dirty bomb' accusations have begun
VIENNA (Reuters) - The U.N. atomic watchdog has started its inspections of two nuclear sites in Ukraine being carried out at Kyiv's request to address Russian accusations that it is working on a so-ca...
Nov 01, 2022 FILE PHOTO: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Rafael Grossi poses for a photograph, in Buenos Aires, Argentina October 18, 2022. REUTERS/Cristina Sille
U.S. Chief Justice Roberts pauses fight over Trump tax returns
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts on Tuesday temporarily blocked a U.S. House of Representatives committee from gaining access to former President Donald Trump's tax returns, effec...
Nov 01, 2022 U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts attends the State of the Union address by U.S. President Joe Biden at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC, U.S, March 1, 2022. Al Drago/Pool via REUTERS
U.S. Supreme Court conservatives lean against race-conscious student admissions
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices signaled skepticism on Monday toward the legality of race-conscious admissions policies in cases involving Harvard University and the Uni...
Nov 01, 2022 Demonstrators gather in support of affirmative action as the U.S. Supreme Court is set to consider whether colleges may continue to use race as a factor in student admissions in two cases, at the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, U.S. October 31, 2022. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
