Category Archives: National
Russia announces limited ceasefire in Ukraine to allow evacuations but continues broad offensive
LVIV/KYIV, Ukraine (Reuters) -Russia said its forces had stopped firing near two besieged Ukrainian cities on Saturday to allow safe passage to civilians fleeing fighting, but city officials said Mosc...
Mar 05, 2022 Service members of the Ukrainian armed forces are seen atop of a tank at their positions outside the settlement of Makariv, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine, near Zhytomyr, Ukraine March 4, 2022. REUTERS/Maksim Levin
U.S. Supreme Court reinstates Boston Marathon bomber's death sentence
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday reinstated convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's death sentence for his role in the 2013 attack that killed three people and wound...
Mar 04, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, arrested in the Boston Marathon bombing, is pictured in this handout photo presented as evidence by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Boston, Massachusetts on March 23, 2015. REUTERS/U.S. Attorney's Office in Boston/Handout via Reuters
U.S. job growth far exceeds expectations in February; unemployment rate falls to 3.8%
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. job growth surged in February, pushing the unemployment rate to a two-year low of 3.8%, raising optimism that the economy could withstand mounting headwinds from geopolitic...
Mar 04, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A restaurant advertising jobs looks to attract workers in Oceanside, California, U.S., May 10, 2021. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo/File Photo
We don't seek conflict with Russia but we are ready for it, U.S. says
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - NATO will defend all its allies and territory against a Russian attack, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Friday, as he arrived for a meeting of the alliance's foreig...
Mar 04, 2022 U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during a news conference with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, before a NATO foreign ministers meeting amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, at the Alliance's headquarters in Brussels, Belgium March 4, 2022. REUTERS/Yves Herman/Pool
Trump to turn over documents in New York civil probe, need not testify during appeal
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Donald Trump will turn over some documents to New York's attorney general for her civil probe into his business practices, but need not answer questions under oath while he appeal...
Mar 04, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando, Florida, U.S. February 28, 2021. REUTERS/Octavio Jones/File Photo
Ukraine says Russian forces seize Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant
KYIV (Reuters) -Russian military forces have seized the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant - Europe's largest - in Ukraine's southeast, the regional state administration said on Friday. "Operational per...
Mar 04, 2022 A general view of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station in Ukraine in this June 12, 2008 file photo. REUTERS/Stringer
Ukraine and Russia agree on evacuation corridors as U.S. punishes oligarchs
BORODYANKA/LVIV, Ukraine (Reuters) - Russia and Ukraine agreed on Thursday to the need for humanitarian corridors to help civilians escape Moscow's eight-day-old invasion, the first apparent progress ...
Mar 03, 2022 A woman pushes her bicycle after fleeing from Russia's invasion of Ukraine arrives at the border crossing in Sighetu Marmatiei, Romania, March 3, 2022. REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov
Pressure grows on Biden to ban U.S. imports of Russian oil
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bipartisan group of U.S. senators introduced a bill on Thursday to ban U.S. imports of Russian oil, saying the shipments could be replaced by boosting output in North America ...
Mar 03, 2022 U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) chide Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) for his phone ringing at the start of a news conference to introduce a bill to ban Russian energy imports, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., March 3, 2022. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Jury clears Louisville detective in Breonna Taylor raid
(Reuters) - A Kentucky jury on Thursday acquitted a white former detective of endangering neighbors of Breonna Taylor during a botched nighttime raid that killed the Black woman in her home, clearing ...
Mar 03, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Former Louisville police detective Brett Hankison poses for a booking photograph at Shelby County Detention Center in Shelbyville, Kentucky, U.S. September 23, 2020. Shelby County Detention Center/Handout via REUTERS
Lavrov says Russia will continue Ukraine war till 'the end'
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday he believed some foreign leaders were preparing for war against Russia and that Moscow would press on with its military opera...
Mar 03, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov attends a meeting with Syria's Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad in Moscow, Russia February 21, 2022. Alexander Nemenov /Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
