Category Archives: National
U.S. could ratify Finnish NATO membership before August, Senate Republican leader says
HELSINKI (Reuters) -The U.S. Congress will seek to ratify Finland's application to join the Western military alliance NATO before going on holiday in August, U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConn...
May 16, 2022 Finland's President Sauli Niinisto and U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell answer questions from the media after a meeting at the President's official residence Mantyniemi, in Helsinki, Finland, May 16, 2022. Lehtikuva/Roni Rekomaa via REUTERS
Churchgoers hog-tie gunman after shooting in California church kills one
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -A gunman opened fire in a Southern California church during a lunch banquet on Sunday, killing one person and wounding five, before churchgoers detained the suspect and hog-tied...
May 16, 2022 Law enforcement officers are seen after a deadly shooting at Geneva Presbyterian Church in Laguna Woods, California, U.S. May 15, 2022. REUTERS/David Swanson
NY suspect in racist shooting was detained for mental health check last year
BUFFALO, N.Y. (Reuters) - A white teenager who fatally shot 10 people in a racist attack at a New York grocery store in a Black neighborhood had been taken into custody and given a mental health evalu...
May 15, 2022 Law enforcement personnel stand outside the home of Buffalo supermarket shooting suspect Payton Gendron in Conklin, New York, U.S. May 15, 2022. REUTERS/Angus Mordant
Gunman kills 10 in live-streamed racial attack at supermarket in Buffalo
BUFFALO, N.Y. (Reuters) - An 18-year-old white gunman shot 10 people to death and wounded three on Saturday at a grocery store in a Black neighborhood of upstate New York, before surrendering after wh...
May 15, 2022 A man is detained following a mass shooting in the parking lot of TOPS supermarket, in a still image from a social media video in Buffalo, New York, U.S. May 14, 2022. Courtesy of BigDawg/ via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. MANDATORY CREDIT
Pope declares 10 new saints, including Dutch priest killed by Nazis
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Sunday declared 10 people saints of the Roman Catholic Church, including an anti-Nazi Dutch priest murdered in the Dachau concentration camp and a French hermi...
May 15, 2022 Pope Francis leads a Holy Mass in St. Peter's Square as he canonises ten new saints at the Vatican, May 15, 2022. REUTERS/Remo Casilli
Russia says it strikes Ukraine positions in battle for Donbas
LONDON (Reuters) - Russia said on Sunday it had pummeled Ukrainian positions in the east with missiles, targeting command centers and arsenals as its forces seek to encircle Ukrainian army units in th...
May 15, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A satellite image shows armoured vehicles and trucks of a military convoy moving south through the Ukrainian town of Velykyi Burluk, Ukraine, April 8, 2022. Picture taken April 8, 2022. Satellite image 2022 Maxar Technologies/Handout via REUTERS
NATO deputy chief 'confident' of finding consensus on Finland, Sweden membership
BERLIN (Reuters) - NATO is confident that it can overcome objections by Turkey and quickly admit Finland and Sweden, its deputy chief said on Sunday, as the alliance prepares for a historic enlargemen...
May 15, 2022 NATO Deputy Secretary General Mircea Geoana and German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock attend a NATO foreign ministers meeting in Berlin, Germany May 15, 2022. Bernd von Jutrczenka/Pool via REUTERS
Biden says baby formula shortage to ease in weeks as U.S. imports more
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. baby formula shortage should improve dramatically in coming weeks, President Joe Biden and top officials said on Friday as the administration scrambled to reverse a shor...
May 14, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Empty shelves show a shortage of baby formula at a CVS store in San Antonio, Texas, U.S. May 10, 2022. REUTERS/Kaylee Greenlee Beal
U.S. abortion rights activists start "summer of rage" with Saturday protests
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Abortion rights supporters will protest in cities across the United States on Saturday, kicking off what organizers said would be "a summer of rage" if the U.S. Supreme Court ov...
May 14, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Some people rallying for abortion rights, including Hannah Yost, center right, argue with a man who gave his name as Joe Green, who is anti abortion, after an anti-climb protective fence was installed outside of the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, U.S., May 5, 2022. REUTERS/Leah Millis/File Photo
Dust storm, hurricane-force winds tear destructive path across U.S. upper Midwest
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Hurricane-force winds tore across the U.S. upper Midwest Thursday evening, sending walls of dust across cities and rural towns, causing widespread property damage and killing at le...
May 13, 2022 Mangled irrigation systems lay across farmland in central Nebraska after high winds swept across the U.S. Great Plains and upper Midwest, Litchfield, Nebraska, U.S., in this still image obtained from a social media video. KEVIN FULTON/via REUTERS
