Category Archives: National
White House logs show gap of 7-plus hours in Trump Jan. 6 call record -report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -White House records show an unexplained gap of more than seven hours in the record of former President Donald Trump's telephone calls the day of the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, attack o...
Mar 30, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Jacob Anthony Chansley, also known as Jake Angeli, of Arizona, stands with other supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump as they demonstrate on the second floor of the U.S. Capitol near the entrance to the Senate after breaching security defenses, in Washington, U.S., January 6, 2021. REUTERS/Mike Theiler/File Photo
Jada Pinkett Smith says it's a 'season for healing' after Oscars incident
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Jada Pinkett Smith promoted healing in an Instagram post on Tuesday, her first public comment since her husband slapped comedian Chris Rock at this year's Academy Awards ceremon...
Mar 29, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Jada Pinkett Smith arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar party during the 94th Academy Awards in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., March 27, 2022. REUTERS/Danny Moloshok
Biden makes lynching a U.S. hate crime, signs Emmett Till law
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed into law the first federal legislation to make lynching a hate crime, addressing a history of racist killings in the United States, after th...
Mar 29, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Four-year-old Senty Banutu-Gomez holds a photograph of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Black boy who was lynched in 1955, at a vigil on the one year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd while in Minneapolis police custody, in Lynn, Massachusetts, U.S., May 25, 2021. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo
FDA authorizes second booster of Pfizer/BioNTech COVID shot
(Reuters) - U.S. regulators authorized a second booster dose of Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE's COVID-19 vaccine for people 50 and older due to concerns about waning immunity in the age group, the drug m...
Mar 29, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A nurses fills up syringes for patients as they receive their coronavirus disease (COVID-19) booster vaccination during a Pfizer-BioNTech vaccination clinic in Southfield, Michigan, U.S., September 29, 2021. REUTERS/Emily Elconin
Biden, European leaders to discuss Ukraine on Tuesday
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden will talk to the leaders of France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom on Tuesday to discuss the latest developments in Russia's invasion of Ukraine,...
Mar 29, 2022 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden approaches the news media before boarding Marine One for travelling to Brussels from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, U.S., March 23, 2022. REUTERS/Leah Millis/File Photo
Biden to broach Russia's war in Ukraine with Singapore PM
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden plans to discuss Russia's invasion of Ukraine and China's role in the Indo-Pacific with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong of Singapore at the White House o...
Mar 29, 2022 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden responds to a question about Ukraine during an event to announce his budget proposal for fiscal year 2023, in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., March 28, 2022. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo
U.S. Capitol attack probe may seek interview with Justice Thomas' wife
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The congressional panel investigating the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol may seek to interview Virginia Thomas, a Republican activist and wife of Supreme Court J...
Mar 29, 2022 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas (L) and his wife Virginia Thomas (R) exit following the Red Mass, a service to mark the beginning of this year's Supreme Court term, at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington October 5, 2014. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo
Academy weighs possible action against Will Smith over Oscars slap
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -The group that hands out the Oscars on Monday condemned Will Smith's slap of presenter Chris Rock at Sunday night's Academy Awards ceremony and said it had started a formal revi...
Mar 28, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Will Smith (R) hits Chris Rock as Rock spoke on stage during the 94th Academy Awards in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S., March 27, 2022. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
Trump likely committed felony with plan to obstruct Congress, U.S. judge rules
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. judge ruled on Monday that former President Donald Trump "more likely than not" committed a felony by trying to pressure his vice president to obstruct Congress and overtu...
Mar 28, 2022 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a rally to contest the certification of the 2020 U.S. presidential election results by the U.S. Congress, in Washington, U.S, January 6, 2021. REUTERS/Jim Bourg/File Photo
Putin does not seem ready for compromise on Ukraine -U.S. official
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin does not appear ready to make compromises to end the war in Ukraine, a senior U.S. official said on Monday as Ukraine and Russia were preparing f...
Mar 28, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with government members via a video link at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow, Russia March 23, 2022. Sputnik/Mikhail Klimentyev/Kremlin via REUTERS/File Photo
