Category Archives: National
Fraudsters likely stole $45.6 billion from U.S. unemployment insurance program in COVID
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fraudsters likely stole $45.6 billion from the United States' unemployment insurance program during the COVID-19 pandemic by applying tactics like using Social Security numbers ...
Sep 22, 2022 FILE PHOTO - An empty hospital bed sits inside the former Intensive Care Unit (ICU) for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patients at Providence Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo, California, U.S., April 12, 2022. Picture taken April 12, 2022. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
With U.S. midterm elections approaching, Democrats score bipartisan win on public safety bills
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday passed a series of bipartisan policing and public safety bills, as Democrats worked to burnish their crime-fighting credentials bef...
Sep 22, 2022 FILE PHOTO: The U.S. Capitol Building is lit at sunset in Washington, U.S., December 20, 2016. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts/File Photo
US House could take up stop-gap spending bill on Tuesday, Pelosi says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives can consider the stop-gap government spending bill next week as soon as it passes the Senate, hopefully as soon as Tuesday night, House Speaker...
Sep 22, 2022 U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) holds a press conference at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., September 22, 2022. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
Alex Jones confronted with his "actors" claims in Sandy Hook defamation trial
(Reuters) -Alex Jones was confronted on the witness stand on Thursday with evidence he called the parents of children killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting "actors," as the U.S. conspiracy the...
Sep 22, 2022 Infowars founder Alex Jones takes the witness stand to testify during the Alex Jones Sandy Hook defamation damages trial at Connecticut Superior Court in Waterbury, Connecticut, U.S., September 22, 2022. Tyler Sizemore/Hearst Connecticut Media/Pool via REUTERS
U.S. vets among those freed in Russian/Ukrainian prisoner swap
KYIV/RIYADH (Reuters) - President Volodymyr Zelenskyy hailed as "superheroes" the senior Ukrainian commanders, including those who led the dogged defense of Mariupol, who were freed by Russia as part ...
Sep 22, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy addresses Ukrainians about the prisoners of war (POWs) swap, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv Ukraine, in this handout picture released September 22, 2022. Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Handout via REUTERS
U.S. appeals court says Trump criminal probe can resume classified records review
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department can resume reviewing classified records seized by the FBI from former President Donald Trump's Florida home pending appeal, a federal appellate court...
Sep 22, 2022 Former U.S. President Donald Trump attends a rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, U.S., September 3, 2022. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly
U.S. rents surge, leaving behind generation of younger workers
(Reuters) -The cost of renting a home in the United States is surging and young workers have felt the sharpest pain, many of them taking on additional jobs or roommates to afford housing costs. Househ...
Sep 21, 2022 A row of residential houses stands in Brooklyn's neighborhood of Bushwick, New York, U.S., September 16, 2022. REUTERS/Amr Alfiky
Fed goes big again with latest rate hike; Powell vows to 'keep at it'
UPDATED 3:22 P.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Federal Reserve delivered its third straight interest rate increase of three-quarters of a percentage point on Wednesday and signaled a high likelihood of a...
Sep 21, 2022 U.S. Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell holds a news conference after Federal Reserve raised its target interest rate by three-quarters of a percentage point in Washington, U.S., September 21, 2022. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
Trump, adult children sued by New York attorney general for fraud
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Former U.S. President Donald Trump and his adult children were sued on Wednesday for what New York state's attorney general called numerous acts of fraud and misrepresentation, acc...
Sep 21, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, U.S., September 3, 2022. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly/File Photo
Biden accuses Russia of 'irresponsible' nuclear threats, violating U.N. charter
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden accused Russia on Wednesday of violating the core tenets of membership in the United Nations by invading Ukraine and said Moscow was making "irrespon...
Sep 21, 2022 U.S. President Joe Biden addresses the 76th Session of the U.N. General Assembly in New York City, U.S., September 21, 2021. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
