Category Archives: National
Biden says U.S. to give Ukraine drones, anti-aircraft systems
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden announced an additional $800 million in security assistance to Ukraine on Wednesday, even as his position on a no-fly zone did not change after Ukrainian Pre...
Mar 16, 2022 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks at the afternoon general session of the National League of Cities' Congressional City Conference at the Marriott Marquis in Washington, U.S., March 14, 2022. REUTERS/Sarah Silbiger
All systems go for Fed's liftoff of U.S. interest rates
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve on Wednesday will close the door on its ultra-easy pandemic-era monetary policy and step up the fight against stubbornly high inflation with the first in wha...
Mar 16, 2022 MWC
Zelenskyy calls on U.S. Congress for more Russia sanctions, defense aid
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on the U.S. Congress on Wednesday for further military assistance to help protect the skies over Ukraine and for further sanctions...
Mar 16, 2022 Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy delivers a video address to senators and members of the House of Representatives gathered in the Capitol Visitor Center Congressional Auditorium at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., March 16, 2022. REUTERS/Sarah Silbiger/Pool
Pfizer-BioNTech seek U.S. OK for second COVID booster for 65 and older
(Reuters) -Pfizer Inc and its German partner BioNTech SE on Tuesday filed an application with U.S. regulators seeking emergency use authorization for a second booster shot of their COVID-19 vaccine fo...
Mar 16, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A healthcare worker prepares a Pfizer coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination in Los Angeles, California, U.S., January 7, 2021. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson/File Photo
Top U.S. Senate Republican says getting planes to Ukraine still under discussion
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said on Tuesday the idea of arming Ukraine with warplanes transferred from Poland was still under discussion. The United States las...
Mar 15, 2022 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) faces reporters following the Senate Republicans weekly policy lunch at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., March 8, 2022. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/File Photo
Biden's Fed nominee Raskin withdraws after what he describes as 'baseless attacks'
UPDATED 3:38 P.M. (Reuters) -Sarah Bloom Raskin on Tuesday withdrew as President Joe Biden's nominee to become the top bank regulator at the Federal Reserve, one day after a key Democratic senator and...
Mar 15, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Sarah Bloom Raskin, nominated to be vice chairman for supervision and a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, looks on during a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 3, 2022. REUTERS/Ken Cedeno/Pool/File Photo
U.S. Senate approves bill that would make Daylight Saving Time permanent in 2023
UPDATED 2:48 P.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Senate on Tuesday passed legislation that would make daylight saving time permanent starting in 2023, ending the twice-annual changing of clocks in a m...
Mar 15, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A man runs near the reflecting pool between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument at sunrise on the National Mall in Washington, U.S., September 19, 2019. REUTERS/Al Drago/File Photo
Fox News cameraman killed while reporting in Ukraine
UPDATED 1:17 P.M. (Reuters) - Fox News cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski was killed in Ukraine after the vehicle in which he was traveling was struck by incoming fire, the U.S. network said on Tuesday. Zakr...
Mar 15, 2022 Fox News cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski, who was killed in Ukraine after the vehicle in which he was traveling was struck by incoming fire, poses for a selfie with colleagues Steve Harrigan, Yonat Frilling and Ibrahim Hazboun in Kyiv, Ukraine in an undated photograph. FOX News Sunday/Handout via REUTERS
NATO to begin planning for more troops on eastern flank after Russia's Ukraine invasion
UPDATED: 7:50 P.M. BRUSSELS (Reuters) - NATO is set to tell its military commanders on Wednesday to draw up plans for new ways to deter Russia following Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, including more tr...
Mar 15, 2022 Firefighters work to put out a fire in a residential apartment building after it was hit by shelling as Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues, in Kyiv, Ukraine, March 15, 2022. REUTERS/Marko Djurica
Police arrest suspect in shootings of homeless in Washington, DC and New York
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Law enforcement authorities early Tuesday morning arrested a suspect in connection with shootings of homeless people in Washington, D.C., and New York, the police department in W...
Mar 15, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A woman walks with balloons by an area where NYPD police have marked off an area where a 43-year-old man was found dead on Sunday evening in New York City, U.S., March 14, 2022. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
