Category Archives: National
U.S. existing home sales slide again in June
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. existing home sales fell for a fifth straight month in June to the lowest level in two years as record-high prices and fast-rising interest rates make buying a home too expen...
Jul 20, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A house under construction is seen at Hawthorne Estates by D. R. Horton in Medford, New Jersey, U.S., May 23, 2022. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly
U.S. House panel seeks to advance bill to ban assault-style rifles
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Democratic-controlled U.S. House of Representatives panel on Wednesday was set to advance a bill banning assault-style rifles such as those used in recent mass shootings, and ...
Jul 20, 2022 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) leads the U.S. House of Representatives in passing the "Bipartisan Safer Communities Act" gun safety legislation in the House Chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 24, 2022. REUTERS/Jim Bourg
Biden to announce executive actions on climate
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden will announce a set of executive actions aimed at addressing climate change on Wednesday in a visit to the site of a former coal-fired plant in Massachusetts...
Jul 20, 2022 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden speaks before signing an executive order to help safeguard women's access to abortion and contraception after the Supreme Court last month overturned Roe v Wade decision that legalized abortion, at the White House in Washington, U.S., July 8, 2022. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
Motor racing-NASCAR to hold race on the streets of Chicago next year
(Reuters) - NASCAR will hold its first-ever Cup Series street race in downtown Chicago in July 2023, the stock car racing circuit said on Tuesday, as it continues to make inroads into major U.S. metro...
Jul 19, 2022 An illustration shows a proposed course layout for NASCAR's first-ever Cup Series Street Race, in this undated handout image. NASCAR/Handout via REUTERS
U.S. archives seeks details on missing Jan.6-related texts -letter
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The National Archives has asked the U.S. Secret Service for information regarding its agents' missing Jan. 6-related text messages amid reports of potentially unauthorized delet...
Jul 19, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A mob of supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump fight with members of law enforcement at a door they broke open as they storm the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, U.S., January 6, 2021. REUTERS/Leah Millis
U.S. Jan. 6 committee chair has COVID; Thursday hearing will proceed
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Democrat Bennie Thompson, chairman of the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, said on Tuesday he has contracted COVID-19 but that ...
Jul 19, 2022 House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack led by Chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., swears in the witnesses during during the seventh public hearing by the House Select Committee to investigate the January 6th attack on the US Capitol, in Washington, DC, U.S., July 12, 2022. Doug Mills/Pool via REUTERS
U.S. prosecutors to open criminal case against Trump ex-adviser Bannon
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors on Tuesday are due to begin making their case that Steve Bannon, a former adviser to former President Donald Trump, broke the law by defying a subpoena from the...
Jul 19, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Steve Bannon, talk show host and former White House advisor to former U.S. President Donald Trump, speaks to reporters before entering U.S. District Court in Washington, U.S., June 15, 2022. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo
Indiana gunman identified as 20-year-old local man
UPDATED 2:05 p.m. GREENWOOD, Ind. (Reuters) -The gunman who killed three people at a shopping mall near Indianapolis over the weekend before an armed bystander shot him dead was a 20-year-old local wh...
Jul 18, 2022 An employee cleans up outside the Greenwood Park Mall the morning after a mass shooting in the Indianapolis suburb of Greenwood, Indiana, U.S. July 18, 2022. REUTERS/Cheney Orr
Buffalo mass shooting suspect pleads not guilty to federal hate, firearms charges
UPDATED 11:22 a.m. (Reuters) -The man accused of killing 10 Black people at a western New York grocery store pleaded not guilty to 27 hate crime and firearms charges stemming from the Buffalo shooting...
Jul 18, 2022 FILE PHOTO :Buffalo shooting suspect, Payton S. Gendron, appears in court, accused of killing 10 people in a live-streamed supermarket shooting in a Black neighborhood of Buffalo, New York, U.S., May 19, 2022. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
Fauci plans to retire by end of U.S. President Biden's term
UPDATED 2:47 P.M. (Reuters) -Dr. Anthony Fauci, the chief medical adviser to the White House, confirmed he will retire by the end of President Joe Biden's first term, but it could come much earlier th...
Jul 18, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci testifies during the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies hearing to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2023 for the National Institutes of Health on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., May 17, 2022. Shawn Thew/Pool via REUTERS
