Category Archives: National
U.S. Supreme Court to hear case that could boost politicians' power over elections
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear a Republican bid to reinstate a map delineating North Carolina's U.S. House of Representatives districts that was invalidated as unfa...
Jun 30, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A visitor runs across the Supreme Court Plaza while attempting to catch their school group, at the U.S. Supreme Court on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., February 22, 2022. REUTERS/Tom Brenner/File Photo
U.S. Supreme Court limits federal power to curb carbon emissions
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday imposed limits on the federal government's authority to issue sweeping regulations to reduce carbon emissions from power plants in a ruling tha...
Jun 30, 2022 The U.S. Supreme Court building is seen in Washington, U.S., June 26, 2022. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz
U.S. Supreme Court backs Biden in bid to end Trump 'remain in Mexico' policy
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court sided with President Joe Biden on Thursday as he seeks to end a hardline immigration policy begun under his predecessor Donald Trump that forced tens of th...
Jun 30, 2022 U.S. President Joe Biden speaks at a news conference during a NATO summit in Madrid, Spain June 30, 2022. REUTERS/Violeta Santos Moura
Biden says he supports overriding filibuster to protect abortion rights
UPDATED 11:06 a.m. MADRID (Reuters) -President Joe Biden on Thursday threw his support behind calls for the U.S. Senate to push aside the legislative filibuster to protect abortion rights, as pressure...
Jun 30, 2022 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden holds a news conference before departing the NATO summit at the IFEMA arena in Madrid, Spain, June 30, 2022. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Ketanji Brown Jackson is sworn in as first Black woman on U.S. Supreme Court
UPDATED 1:08 p.m. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Ketanji Brown Jackson was sworn in on Thursday as a U.S. Supreme Court justice, making history as the first Black woman on the nation's top judicial body while ...
Jun 30, 2022 Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is sworn in as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court by Chief Justice John Roberts as Jackson’s husband Patrick Jackson holds the Bible at the U.S. Supreme Court that was broadcast online from the Supreme Court building in Washington, June 30, 2022. Supreme Court of the United States/via Reuters
U.S. Capitol riot panel faces questions over Trump fracas in SUV
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A congressional probe into the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol by Donald Trump supporters faced questions on Wednesday about what steps it had taken to corroborate a White Hou...
Jun 29, 2022 Cassidy Hutchinson, who was an aide to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows during the administration of former U.S. President Donald Trump, stands up in a public hearing of the U.S. House Select Committee investigating the January 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol, at the Capitol, in Washington, U.S., June 28, 2022. Mandel Ngan/Pool via REUTERS
R&B singer R. Kelly sentenced to 30 years in prison in sex case
UPDATED 5:11 P.M. NEW YORK (Reuters) -R. Kelly was sentenced on Wednesday to 30 years in prison, following the multiplatinum R&B singer's conviction for exploiting his stardom and wealth over deca...
Jun 29, 2022 R. Kelly stands with his lawyer Jennifer Bonjean during his sentencing hearing for federal sex trafficking at the Brooklyn Federal Courthouse in Brooklyn, New York, U.S., June 29, 2022 in this courtroom sketch. REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg
Russian missiles rain down on Ukraine as West pledges enduring support
KYIV (Reuters) - Russian forces struck targets in the Mykolaiv region of southern Ukraine on Wednesday and intensified attacks on fronts across the country as NATO members met in Madrid to plan a cour...
Jun 29, 2022 A view of the explosion as a Russian missile strike hits a shopping mall amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, at a location given as Kremenchuk, in Poltava region, Ukraine in this still image taken from handout CCTV footage released June 28, 2022. CCTV via Instagram @zelenskiy_official/Handout via REUTERS
FDA advisers recommend change to COVID vaccine composition for fall
(Reuters) -Advisers to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday recommended a change in the design of COVID-19 booster shots this fall in order to combat more recently circulating variants of ...
Jun 29, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) are pictured at a booster clinic for 12 to 17-year-olds in Lansdale, Pennsylvania, U.S., January 9, 2022. REUTERS/Hannah Beier/File Photo
Two Mexicans charged after death of 51 migrants in sweltering Texas truck
SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Reuters) -At least 51 migrants have died after being trapped inside a sweltering tractor-trailer truck found abandoned in Texas, authorities said on Tuesday, as two Mexican nationa...
Jun 29, 2022 Law enforcement officers work at the scene where people were found dead inside a trailer truck in San Antonio, Texas, U.S. June 27, 2022. REUTERS/Kaylee Greenlee Beal
