Category Archives: National
Democrats set voting rights showdown with no clear path to victory
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden's Democrats took their push to protect U.S. voting rights to the floor of the Senate on Tuesday, where legislation is roundly expected to fail in the face of ...
Jan 18, 2022 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden talks with the media following Senate Democratic lunch to discuss the party's push to enact voting rights legislation and possible changes to Senate rules, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., January 13, 2022. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
U.S. website to order free COVID-19 tests up and running
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government's new COVIDTests.gov website, set up for American households to order four free COVID-19 tests amid the Omicron variant surge, is up and running ahead of its...
Jan 18, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Take-home COVID-19 self testing kits provided by the District of Columbia government, which provides city residents four free take home tests per day, are seen in this illustration taken January 11, 2022. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
AT&T, Verizon will delay some 5G deployment amid aviation standoff
UPDATE: 1:20 p.m. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - AT&T and Verizon Communications on Tuesday agreed to temporarily defer turning on some wireless towers near key airports to avert a significant disruption ...
Jan 18, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A Southwest Airlines flight, equipped with radar altimeters that may conflict with telecom 5G technology, flies 500 feet above the ground while on final approach to land at LaGuardia Airport in New York City, New York, U.S., January 6, 2022. REUTERS/Bryan Woolston
Blinken to visit Ukraine after dead-end Russia talks
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden's top diplomat will visit Kyiv this week after talks with Russia ended in a stalemate last week amid concerns in the United States and other Western nati...
Jan 18, 2022 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks in the briefing room of the State Department in Washington, U.S. January 7, 2022. Andrew Harnik/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
Microsoft to gobble up Activision in $69 billion metaverse bet
(Reuters) -Microsoft Corp is buying "Call of Duty" maker Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion in the biggest gaming industry deal in history as global technology giants stake their claims to a virtua...
Jan 18, 2022 The Microsoft logo is seen in front of characters from Activision Blizzard games. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
U.S. appeals court delays legal challenge to Texas abortion law
(Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Monday handed a defeat to abortion clinics by delaying a legal challenge to a Texas law banning most abortions in that state. In a 2-1 ruling, the New Orleans-based...
Jan 18, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Supporters of reproductive choice take part in the nationwide Women's March, held after Texas rolled out a near-total ban on abortion procedures and access to abortion-inducing medications, in Los Angeles, California, October 2, 2021. REUTERS/Ringo Chiu/File Photo
U.S. Democrats to start voting rights showdown with no clear path to victory
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden's Democrats will bring their push to protect U.S. voting rights to the floor of the Senate this week, where it is roundly expected to fail in the face of uni...
Jan 18, 2022 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) gestures as he speaks with the media following Senate Democratic lunch, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., January 13, 2022. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz
US senators promise solidarity and weapons for Ukraine in warning to Putin
KYIV (Reuters) - A bipartisan group of United States senators promised solidarity and weapons on a visit to Kyiv on Monday while warning Russian President Vladimir Putin against launching a new milita...
Jan 17, 2022 U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-CT), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Rob Portman (R-OH), Roger Wicker (R-MS) and Kevin Cramer (R-ND) attend a news briefing following their meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Kyiv, Ukraine January 17, 2022. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
Lawsuit against Amazon filed in tornado swarm that left 6 dead in Illinois warehouse
(Reuters) - The family of an Amazon.com delivery truck driver in Illinois who died in December when a warehouse was destroyed by a swarm of tornadoes that killed six people there, filed a lawsuit agai...
Jan 17, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Amazon crew on lifts document the damage from the tornado that hit an Amazon distribution centre where the roof collapsed in Edwardsville, Illinois, U.S. December 13, 2021. REUTERS/Lawrence Bryant/File Photo
Family of Martin Luther King Jr. leads Washington march for voting rights
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Descendants of the slain civil rights icon the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and their supporters plan to march on Washington on Monday to urge President Joe Biden and his fellow ...
Jan 17, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Yolanda King is embraced by her parents, Martin Luther King III and Arndrea Waters King, after delivering remarks at the 'March On For Voting Rights' rally in Washington, U.S. August 28, 2021. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
