Category Archives: National
Biden approves $350 million in military aid for Ukraine
UPDATE: Feb., 26, 2022 -- 1:13 p.m. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden instructed the U.S. State Department to release up to an additional $350 million worth of weapons from U.S. stocks to Ukra...
Feb 26, 2022 A Ukrainian serviceman holds a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) launcher at fighting positions outside the city of Kharkiv, Ukraine February 24, 2022. REUTERS/Maksim Levin
U.S. to impose sanctions on Russia's Putin over invasion of Ukraine
(Reuters) - The White House on Friday said the United States would impose sanctions on Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov as Washington looks to ramp up pressure on Mo...
Feb 25, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives for a meeting with representatives of the business community at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia February 24, 2022. Sputnik/Aleksey Nikolskyi/Kremlin via REUTERS
Durbin reacts to Biden's Supreme Court pick
CHICAGO, Ill. - The name of D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is not unfamiliar to the Senate, or to its Judiciary Committee. That committee's chair is Illinois Senator Dick Du...
Feb 25, 2022 JoshBerglund19 / CC
Key U.S. senator backs more than $10 billion to handle Ukraine crisis
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic U.S. Senator Chris Coons, who chairs the Senate subcommittee that oversees foreign aid, said on Friday he would support an emergency spending bill of $10 billion or m...
Feb 25, 2022 FILE PHOTO: The U.S. Capitol building is pictured in Washington, U.S., January 26, 2022. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts/File Photo
U.S. congressional panel expands probe of Trump documents
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. congressional committee investigating former President Donald Trump's removal of classified documents from the White House has expanded its probe of the Republican's hand...
Feb 25, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a rally, in Conroe, Texas, U.S., January 29, 2022. REUTERS/Go Nakamura/File Photo
Invasion could drive 5 million Ukrainians to flee abroad - U.N.
GENEVA (Reuters) - Fuel, cash and medical supplies are running low in parts of Ukraine after Russia's invasion, which could drive up to five million people to flee abroad, U.N. aid agencies said on Fr...
Feb 25, 2022 People flee from Ukraine at the Hungarian-Ukrainian border after Russian President Vladimir Putin authorized a military operation, in Beregsurany, Hungary, February 24, 2022. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo
Durbin: Putin is a 'madman'
CHICAGO, Ill. - Does Senator Dick Durbin think Russian President Vladimir Putin will "go nuclear" in that country's invasion of Ukraine? "I pray that isn't even in the realm of possibilities," said Du...
Feb 24, 2022 Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL)
Three Minneapolis ex-police officers guilty of violating George Floyd's rights
ST. PAUL, Minn. (Reuters) -Three former Minneapolis police officers were found guilty on Thursday of depriving George Floyd of his rights by failing to give aid to the handcuffed Black man pinned bene...
Feb 24, 2022 A protestor stands outside of the Warren E. Burger Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse before opening arguments of the civil trial of three former Minneapolis police officers, Tou Thao, J. Alexander Kueng and Thomas Lane, charged with violating George Floyd's civil rights when they took part in his deadly arrest in St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S., January 24, 2022. REUTERS/Eric Miller
Ukraine's forces no match for Russia in manpower, gear and experience
(Reuters) - Ukrainian forces are defending against an invasion on three sides by a Russian military that is bigger, better armed and steeped in recent combat experience from Syria's civil war. Missile...
Feb 24, 2022 Ukrainian army soldiers stand next to multiple launch missile systems, after Russian President Vladimir Putin authorised a military operation, in eastern Ukraine, in Kharkiv region, Ukraine February 24, 2022. REUTERS/Antonio Bronic
Biden unveils new sanctions on Russian banks, businesses after Ukraine attack
UPDATED 1:26 P.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden unveiled harsh new sanctions against Russia on Thursday after Moscow launched an all-out invasion of Ukraine, imposing measures to impede Ru...
Feb 24, 2022 U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on Russia's attack on Ukraine, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, U.S., February 24, 2022. REUTERS/Leah Millis
