Category Archives: National
Ghislaine Maxwell sentenced to 20 years for sex trafficking
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Tuesday for helping the sex offender and globetrotting financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse teenage girls. The British ...
Jun 28, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Ghislaine Maxwell appears via video link during her arraignment hearing in Manhattan Federal Court, in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S. July 14, 2020 in this courtroom sketch. REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg
Trump did not care that Jan. 6 rioters were armed, ex-White House aide testifies
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Then-President Donald Trump did not care that supporters at his Jan. 6, 2021, rally preceding the assault on the U.S. Capitol were armed, including with AR-15-style rifles, a Whi...
Jun 28, 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, arrives 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., June 28, 2022. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
Michigan court tosses charges against ex-governor, others stemming from Flint water crisis
(Reuters) - The Michigan Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out charges against former Governor Rick Snyder and eight others in connection with the Flint water scandal, ruling that a lower court judge lac...
Jun 28, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A pictures of damaged pipes from Flint, a city struggling with the effects of lead-poisoned drinking water, is seen as Michigan Governor Rick Snyder (2nd L) attends a meeting between local and federal authorities with U.S. President Barack Obama in Michigan, May 4, 2016. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
U.S. to press Turkey as Finland, Sweden hope for NATO breakthrough
HELSINKI/MADRID (Reuters) - NATO hopefuls Finland and Sweden voiced optimism on Tuesday that Turkey might lift its veto over their stalled bid to join the military alliance at a summit in Madrid, wher...
Jun 28, 2022 NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez visit the NATO summit venue in Madrid, Spain June 28, 2022. REUTERS/Yves Herman
'Stacks of bodies': 46 dead migrants found in truck in Texas
SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) -The bodies of 46 dead migrants were discovered inside a tractor-trailer on Monday in San Antonio, Texas, city officials said, in one of the most deadly recent incidents of human...
Jun 28, 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
U.S. Supreme Court again nixes Bayer challenge to weedkiller suits
(Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected another Bayer AG bid to dismiss litigation alleging that its Roundup weedkiller causes cancer as the German pharmaceutical and chemical giant tries...
Jun 27, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A woman uses a Monsanto's Roundup weedkiller spray without glyphosate in a garden in Ercuis near Paris, France, May 6, 2018. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier
Missiles strike Ukraine shopping mall, G7 vows to keep pressure on Russia
KREMENCHUK, Ukraine (Reuters) -Russian missiles struck a crowded shopping mall in central Ukraine on Monday, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said, as Moscow fought for control of a key eastern city and ...
Jun 27, 2022 Rescuers work at a site of a shopping mall hit by a Russian missile strike, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, in Kremenchuk, in Poltava region, Ukraine June 27, 2022. REUTERS/Anna Voitenko
Biden swipes at China with memorandum to combat illegal fishing
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday signed a national security memorandum to fight illegal fishing, part of pledged efforts to help countries combat alleged violations by fishing ...
Jun 27, 2022 U.S. President Joe Biden attends the G7 leaders' summit at the Bavarian resort of Schloss Elmau castle, near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, June 27, 2022. REUTERS/Lukas Barth/Pool
Update: Three dead in Amtrak train crash and derailment in Missouri
(Reuters) -An Amtrak train carrying more than 200 passengers derailed in northern Missouri on Monday after hitting a dump truck at an uncontrolled crossing, killing two aboard and a person in the truc...
Jun 27, 2022 Christine Warner / CC
Jan. 6 panel announces another hearing for Tuesday
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. congressional committee plans to reveal new evidence about the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol by Donald Trump's supporters at a public hearing on Tuesday it has...
Jun 27, 2022 Members of the U.S. House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the United States Capitol are seen during the fifth public hearing of the committee, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., June 23, 2022. REUTERS/Jim Bourg
