Category Archives: National
Update: Six teens arrested in shooting outside Iowa high school
(Reuters and Fox News) - A teenage boy has died and two teen girls are in critical condition after being shot outside a Iowa high school Monday afternoon. Des Moines Police say six teenage suspects in...
Mar 08, 2022 Midwest Communications
U.S. House to vote as soon as Tuesday on Russia energy import ban: aide
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives is set to vote as soon as Tuesday on legislation seeking to ban the import of Russian energy products and suspend normal trade relations with R...
Mar 07, 2022 FILE PHOTO: The U.S. House of Representatives ahead of President Joe Biden's first State of the Union Address in the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC, U.S, March 1, 2022. Jim Lo Scalzo/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
Factbox-Bird flu spreads on U.S. poultry farms
(Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture reported outbreaks of a highly lethal type of bird flu in commercial flocks in Maryland and South Dakota over the weekend, adding to concerns that wild b...
Mar 07, 2022 Live chickens are transported in crates on a semi trailer truck into the Pilgrim's poultry processing plant in Enterprise, Alabama, U.S., November 30, 2021. REUTERS/Alyssa Pointer/File Photo
U.S. Supreme Court nixes bid to reinstate Bill Cosby's conviction
(Reuters) -Bill Cosby avoided renewed legal jeopardy on Monday when the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a bid by prosecutors to undo last year's ruling in Pennsylvania that overturned the 84-year-...
Mar 07, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Actor and comedian Bill Cosby arrives at the Montgomery County Courthouse for the sentencing hearings in his sexual assault trial in Norristown, Pennsylvania, U.S., September 25, 2018. REUTERS/Jessica Kourkounis/File Photo
U.S. WNBA All-Star Griner detained in Russia, customs service cites hash possession
(Reuters) - U.S. basketball officials said on Saturday they were closely monitoring the situation surrounding seven-time WNBA All-Star player Brittney Griner after Russia said it had detained a U.S. p...
Mar 07, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Brittney Griner of the United States gestures during a game against Australia at Saitama Super Arena in their Tokyo 2020 Olympic women's basketball quarterfinal game in Saitama, Japan August 4, 2021. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
U.S. Democrats seek $1B to fight oil, gas, drug price gouging -Schumer
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Democrats are seeking $1 billion for the Federal Trade Commission to crack down on companies that gouge consumers in the oil, gas, medicine and other sectors, Senate...
Mar 07, 2022 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) speaks to reporters following the Senate Democrats weekly policy lunch at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., March 1, 2022. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz
Ukraine decries 'immoral' stunt after Moscow says it will let civilians flee - to Russia
LVIV/KYIV, Ukraine (Reuters) - Russia announced new "humanitarian corridors" on Monday to transport Ukrainians trapped under its bombardment - to Russia itself and its ally Belarus, a move immediately...
Mar 07, 2022 Local residents cross a destroyed bridge as they evacuate from the town of Irpin, after days of heavy shelling on the only escape route used by locals, while Russian troops advance towards the capital, in Irpin, near Kyiv, Ukraine March 7, 2022. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
U.S. gasoline prices soar to highest since 2008 on Russia conflict -AAA
(Reuters) -U.S. gasoline prices at the pump jumped 11% over the past week to the highest since late July 2008 as global sanctions cripple Russia's ability to export crude oil after its invasion of Ukr...
Mar 07, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Traffic travels past a sign displaying current gas prices in San Diego, California, U.S., February 28, 2022. REUTERS/Mike Blake
Blinken in Poland for talks on security, refugees
RZESZOW, Poland (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Poland's prime minister and foreign minister on Saturday in the Polish city of Rzeszow, near to the Ukrainian border that hundred...
Mar 05, 2022 U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during a news conference with Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau (not pictured), following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in Rzeszow, Poland March 5, 2022. Olivier Douliery/Pool via REUTERS
U.S. Embassy in Ukraine calls nuclear power plant attack 'war crime'
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Embassy in Ukraine said that attacking a nuclear power plant is a war crime, after Russia on Friday seized a Ukrainian nuclear facility that is the biggest in Europe. Th...
Mar 05, 2022 Surveillance camera footage shows the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant following shelling, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in Enerhodar, Zaporizhia Oblast, Ukraine March 4, 2022, in this screengrab from a video obtained from social media. Zaporizhzhya NPP via YouTube via REUTERS
