Category Archives: National
Tennis-Serena announces upcoming retirement from the sport
(Reuters) -Serena Williams said on Tuesday that she is "evolving away from tennis" as she detailed her upcoming retirement from the sport that she dominated for the majority of her career with 23 sing...
Aug 09, 2022 Aug 8, 2022; Toronto, ON, Canada; Serena Williams (USA) serves against Nuria Parrizas Diaz (ESP) in first round play in the National Bank Open at Sobeys Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Dan Hamilton-USA TODAY Sports
Biden signs bill to boost U.S. chips, compete with China
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden on Tuesday is signing a bill to provide $52.7 billion in subsidies for U.S. semiconductor production and research and to boost efforts to make the United Sta...
Aug 09, 2022 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden, isolating following his COVID-19 diagnosis, appears virtually in a meeting with business and labor leaders about the Chips Act — relating to U.S. domestic chip and semiconductor manufacturing — in an auditorium on the White House campus in Washington, U.S., July 25, 2022. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Hollywood actress Anne Heche in coma since fiery car crash- spokesperson
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hollywood actress Anne Heche remained hospitalized in critical condition, comatose and connected to a breathing machine on Monday, four days after suffering severe injuries in ...
Aug 09, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Anne Heche attends the premiere for the film "The Tender Bar" at The TLC Chinese Theater in Los Angeles, California, U.S., December 12, 2021. REUTERS/Aude Guerrucci
British-Born Australian singer Olivia Newton-John dies at 73
UPDATED 3:38 P.M. (Reuters) - Singer Olivia Newton-John, who soared to the top of the world's pop music charts in the 1970s and 1980s with such tunes as "I Honestly Love You" and "Physical" and starre...
Aug 08, 2022 Olivia Newton-John rides in the 85th annual Hollywood Christmas Parade in Los Angeles, California, U.S. November 27, 2016. REUTERS/Phil McCarten/Files
U.S. to send $4.5 billion more to Ukraine for budget needs
(Reuters) -The United States will provide an additional $4.5 billion to Ukraine's government, bringing its total budgetary support since Russia's February invasion to $8.5 billion, the U.S. Agency for...
Aug 08, 2022 National flags of Ukraine and the U.S. fly at a compound of a police training base outside Kiev, Ukraine, May 6, 2016. Picture taken May 6, 2016. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko
Two white men get life sentences, third man 35 years for U.S. hate crime in Ahmaud Arbery murder
UPDATED 4:18 P.M. BRUNSWICK, Ga. (Reuters) -A judge sentenced a white father and son to life in prison and their neighbor to 35 years on Monday for a federal hate crime in the 2020 murder of Ahmaud Ar...
Aug 08, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A poster depicting Ahmaud Arbery is seen outside the Glynn County Courthouse while Greg McMichael, his son Travis McMichael and William "Roddie" Bryan are tried over the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, in Brunswick, Georgia, U.S., November 23, 2021. REUTERS/Marco Bello
Biden visits eastern Kentucky to review flood damage
LEXINGTON, Ky (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden arrived in eastern Kentucky on Monday to survey damage from severe flooding that swept away houses and vehicles, and killed at least 37 people last we...
Aug 08, 2022 U.S. President Joe Biden speaks as he and first lady Jill Biden visit a flood-ravaged building in Lost Creek, Kentucky, U.S., August 8, 2022. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
New Mexico police seek public's help in probe of four Muslim slayings
(Reuters) -Police in New Mexico on Sunday asked for the public's help in locating a "vehicle of interest" in their probe of four fatal shootings of Muslim men whose slayings in Albuquerque over the pa...
Aug 08, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Mayor of Albuquerque Tim Keller speaks to the public during an event to mark Indigenous Peoples' Day in Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S., October 11, 2021. REUTERS/Mostafa Bassim
U.S. Senate approves bill to fight climate change, cut drug costs in win for Biden
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Senate on Sunday passed a sweeping $430 billion bill intended to fight climate change, lower drug prices and raise some corporate taxes, a major victory for President Jo...
Aug 08, 2022 U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) walks into the Radio TV gallery to speak to the media after the 51-50 vote passed the "Inflation Reduction Act of 2022" on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S. August 7, 2022. REUTERS/Ken Cedeno
Ukraine probing almost 26,000 suspected war crimes cases - prosecutor
KYIV (Reuters) - Ukraine is investigating almost 26,000 suspected war crime cases committed since Russia's Feb. 24 invasion and has charged 135 people, its chief war crimes prosecutor told Reuters. Of...
Aug 07, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Volunteers of the Territorial Defence Forces walk next to destroyed Russian tanks and armoured vehicles, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in Bucha, in Kyiv region, Ukraine, April 6, 2022. REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis
