Category Archives: National
Gasoline, food drive U.S. consumer prices higher in June
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. consumer prices accelerated in June as gasoline and food costs remained elevated, resulting in the largest annual increase in inflation in 40-1/2 years and cementing the ca...
Jul 13, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Gas prices are displayed at a Sunoco gas station after the inflation rate hit a 40-year high in January, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. February 19, 2022. REUTERS/Hannah Beier
Texas newspaper posts video of police responding to Uvalde shooting
(Reuters) -A Texas newspaper on Tuesday posted video of police and federal agents responding to the shooting at an Uvalde elementary school in May, footage at the center of a debate among state and lo...
Jul 13, 2022 Salvador Ramos enters Robb Elementary school holding a rifle before killing 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas, U.S. May 24, 2022 in a still image from school surveillance video obtained by the Austin American-Statesman newspaper. Austin American-Statesman/Handout via REUTERS.
NASA draws back curtain on Webb space telescope's first full-color images
GREENBELT, Md. (Reuters) - NASA on Tuesday drew back the curtain on billions of years of cosmic evolution with the inaugural batch of photos from the largest, most powerful observatory ever launched t...
Jul 12, 2022 The "Cosmic Cliffs" of the Carina Nebula is seen in an image divided horizontally by an undulating line between a cloudscape forming a nebula along the bottom portion and a comparatively clear upper portion, with data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, a revolutionary apparatus designed to peer through the cosmos to the dawn of the universe and released July 12, 2022. Speckled across both portions is a starfield, showing innumerable stars of many sizes. NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Webb ERO Production Team/Handout via REUTERS
Trump incited Jan. 6 attack after 'unhinged' White House meeting, panel told
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday accused Donald Trump of inciting a mob of followers to attack the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in a last-ditch bid to remain in power as Congress was f...
Jul 12, 2022 Jason Van Tatenhove, a member of the Oath Keepers, and Stephen?Ayres, January 6 rioter, are sworn in to testify during a public hearing of the U.S. House Select Committee to investigate the January 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., July 12, 2022. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz
Rivian to address layoffs, restructuring at Friday meeting
(Reuters) -Electric truck maker Rivian Automotive will brief employees on Friday on potential layoffs and plans to suspend some programs as part of a broader restructuring, Chief Executive R.J. Scarin...
Jul 12, 2022 FILE PHOTO: The logo for electric vehicle company Rivian is seen on the hood of its R1T all-electric truck in Mill Valley, California, U.S., January 25, 2020. REUTERS/Nathan Frandino/File Photo
Biden calls migration a 'hemispheric challenge' in meeting with Mexican president
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday called migration a shared "hemispheric challenge" in a meeting with Mexico's leader while also saying the two countries would make infrastruc...
Jul 12, 2022 U.S. President Joe Biden meets with Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, U.S., July 12, 2022. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
Biden set to tackle oil, Israel, Yemen, Iran on Saudi trip
DUBAI (Reuters) - President Joe Biden will visit the United State's most important Arab ally Saudi Arabia on July 15-16 after two years of strained ties over the killing of Washington Post journalist ...
Jul 12, 2022 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
Senator Graham ordered to testify in front of grand jury in Trump election probe
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A judge ordered U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham to testify in front of a special grand jury in Georgia investigating former President Donald Trump's alleged attempts to overturn the...
Jul 12, 2022 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) speaks during a Republican news conference ahead of the Senate confirmation vote for U.S. Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., April 7, 2022. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz
U.S. Capitol riot probe turns focus to Trump allies and extremist groups
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congressional investigators into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday will seek to draw connections between then-President Donald Trump's associates and right...
Jul 12, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A video of former U.S. President Donald Trump is played as Cassidy Hutchinson, who was an aide to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows during the Trump administration, testifies during a House Select Committee public hearing that investigates the January 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol, at the Capitol, in Washington, U.S., June 28, 2022. Anna Moneymaker/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
Webb space telescope ready for White House closeup
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden, breaking from political pressures to bask in the glow of the cosmos, was expected on Monday to release the first full-color image being made public by ...
Jul 11, 2022 The first full-color image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, a revolutionary apparatus designed to peer through the cosmos to the dawn of the universe, shows the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723, known as Webb’s First Deep Field, in a composite made from images at different wavelengths taken with a Near-Infrared Camera and released July 11, 2022. NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Webb ERO Production Team/Handout via REUTERS
