Category Archives: National

Update: Thailand mass shooting kills 38 at daycare center
BANGKOK (Reuters) -Ex-cop kills 38 in gun and knife rampage at Thai children's daycare center. A former policeman killed 38 people, including 22 children, in a knife and gun rampage at a daycare cente...
Julia Bradley Oct 06, 2022 People gather outside of a daycare center's scene of a mass shooting in the town of Uthai Sawan, 500 km (310 miles) northeast of Bangkok in the province of Nong Bua Lamphu, Thailand October 6, 2022. Sakdipat Boonsom/Handout via REUTERS

Biden, Florida's DeSantis stress unity in Hurricane Ian recovery
FORT MYERS, Fla. (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden met with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on Wednesday to tour the devastation from Hurricane Ian, and stressed the need for a united federal and stat...
Cooper Banks Oct 05, 2022 U.S. President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden walk next to Florida governor Ron DeSantis and his wife Casey DeSantis as they tour Hurricane Ian destruction during a visit to Florida, in Fort Myers Beach, Florida, U.S., October 5, 2022. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein

OPEC+ agrees deep oil production cuts, Biden calls it shortsighted
VIENNA/LONDON (Reuters) - OPEC+ agreed steep oil production cuts on Wednesday, curbing supply in an already tight market, causing one of its biggest clashes with the West as the U.S. administration ca...
Cooper Banks Oct 05, 2022 Saudi Arabia's Minister of Energy Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman Al-Saud and OPEC Secretary-General Haitham al-Ghais shake hands at the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) headquarters in Vienna, Austria October 5, 2022. REUTERS/Lisa Leutner

Putin formalizes annexation of shrinking occupied territory in Ukraine
KYIV (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin formally incorporated four partially-occupied Ukrainian regions into Russia on Wednesday, a move Kyiv condemned as a meaningless land grab dreamt up by "a col...
Julia Bradley Oct 05, 2022 A member of the Ukrainian National Guard fires a D-30 howitzer towards Russian troops, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kharkiv region, Ukraine October 5, 2022. REUTERS/Vyacheslav Madiyevskyy

Biden to tour storm-damaged Florida, meet with DeSantis
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden will travel to Florida on Wednesday and pledge support to help the state recover from the Hurricane Ian during a visit that includes a meeting with Gove...
Julia Bradley Oct 05, 2022 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during a reception to celebrate the Jewish New Year, in the East Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., September 30, 2022. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

Trump asks U.S. Supreme Court to intervene over seized classified records
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in his fight with the Justice Department over classified documents seized from his Florida home...
Will Stevenson Oct 04, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A redacted FBI photograph of documents and classified cover sheets recovered from a container stored in former U.S. president Donald Trump's Florida estate, and which was included in a U.S. Department of Justice filing and released August 30, 2022. U.S. Department of Justice/Handout via REUTERS

Biden to meet with DeSantis during Florida trip Wednesday -White House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden will meet with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on Wednesday during a visit to the state in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian, the White House said on Tuesday...
Cooper Banks Oct 04, 2022 U.S. President Joe Biden speaks to reporters as he departs for Puerto Rico from the White House in Washington, U.S., October 3, 2022. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

Twitter surges after report Musk will go through with deal
(Reuters) - Shares of Tesla Inc pared early gains while Twitter Inc surged on Tuesday after a report that billionaire Elon Musk is expected to propose going ahead with his takeover of the social media...
Cooper Banks Oct 04, 2022 Twitter logo and stock graph are seen through a magnifier displayed in this illustration taken September 4, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration

Country music star Loretta Lynn dies at 90
(Reuters) - Loretta Lynn, the coal miner's daughter and moonshiner's wife who became one of American country music's biggest stars and a leading feminist, died on Tuesday at the age of 90, her family ...
Julia Bradley Oct 04, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Musicians Kacey Musgraves and Loretta Lynn perform "You're Lookin' at Country" during the 48th Country Music Association Awards in Nashville, Tennessee November 5, 2014. REUTERS/Harrison McClary

Trump sues CNN claiming defamation, seeks $475 million in punitive damages
(Reuters) -Former U.S. president Donald Trump sued CNN for defamation on Monday, seeking $475 million in punitive damages and claiming the network had carried out a "campaign of libel and slander" aga...
Julia Bradley Oct 04, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks as he attends a rally in Warren, Michigan, U.S., October 1, 2022. REUTERS/Chery Dieu-Nalio/File Photo
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