Category Archives: National

White House: Website will help Americans get at-home tests
WASHINGTON, D.C. (FOX News) -- In the coming days, the White House is expected to launch a website that will allow Americans the ability to order free, at-home rapid COVID-19 tests. This comes after t...
Julia Bradley Jan 17, 2022 Midwest Communications

FBI storms Texas synagogue to release hostages, gunman dead
UPDATE: 5 a.m. 1/17: COLLEYVILLE, Texas -- U.S. and British authorities continue to investigate the weekend standoff at a Texas synagogue that ended with an armed British national dead and a rabbi cre...
Ed Hammond Jan 16, 2022 REUTERS/Shelby Tauber

Djokovic flies out of Australia after losing court appeal
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Tennis superstar Novak Djokovic boarded a plane to leave Australia on Sunday after the Federal Court upheld a government decision to cancel his visa on the grounds that his decis...
Ed Hammond Jan 16, 2022 REUTERS/Loren Elliott

Winter storm now threatens U.S. Southeast with snow & ice, hundreds of flights cancelled
UPDATE: 01/15/2022 11:45 a.m. (Undated) -- The nation's next winter storm continues it's march after dumping a foot of snow in some hardest hit parts of the Midwest. The bulk of Central Illinois commu...
Cooper Banks Jan 15, 2022 Midwest Communications

U.S. households can order 4 free COVID-19 tests starting Jan. 19 - White House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. households can order four free at-home COVID-19 tests from the website COVIDTests.gov starting on Jan. 19 with shipping expected within seven to 12 days of ordering, the Wh...
Will Stevenson Jan 14, 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/Illustration

Alleged Wisconsin parade attacker now faces arraignment on dozens of new charges
(UNDATED) -- There are dozens of new charges filed against the man accused in connection with a deadly incident during a Christmas parade in Wisconsin last year. 39-year-old Darrell Brooks Jr. now fac...
Cooper Banks Jan 14, 2022 Police and emergency responders gather after a vehicle plowed through the Christmas Parade, leaving multiple people injured in Waukesha, Wisconsin, U.S. November 21, 2021. Scott Ash-USA TODAY NETWORK via REUTERS

Robert F. Kennedy's assassin Sirhan denied parole by California governor
(Reuters) - California Governor Gavin Newsom said on Thursday he has denied parole to Sirhan Sirhan, the Palestinian refugee serving a life prison sentence for assassinating U.S. presidential candidat...
Julia Bradley Jan 14, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A visitor watches a tribute film to former U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, on the 50th anniversary of his death, at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Museum and Library in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., June 6, 2018. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo

Far-right Oath Keepers first to be charged with seditious conspiracy in Capitol attack
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. prosecutors on Thursday charged the founder of the far-right Oath Keepers militia, Stewart Rhodes, and 10 alleged members of the group with seditious conspiracy for their ro...
Cooper Banks Jan 13, 2022 Oath Keepers founder, Stewart Rhodes, speaks during the Patriots Day Free Speech Rally in Berkeley, California, U.S. April 15, 2017. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart

U.S. Supreme Court blocks Biden vaccine-or-test policy for large businesses
UPDATED 3:23 P.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday blocked President Joe Biden's pandemic-related vaccination-or-testing mandate for large businesses at a time of escalating CO...
Will Stevenson Jan 13, 2022 FILE PHOTO: The United States Supreme Court in Washington, U.S., May 17, 2021. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/File Photo

U.S. Ambassador: "The drumbeat of war is sounding loud, and the rhetoric has gotten...shrill."
VIENNA/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Poland's foreign minister said on Thursday that Europe was at risk of plunging into war as Russia said it was not yet calling time on diplomacy but that military experts were...
Cooper Banks Jan 13, 2022 FILE - In this Thursday, Dec. 19, 2019 file photo, President Vladimir Putin speaks during his annual news conference in Moscow, Russia. An Associated Press review shows the idea of Ukrainian interference took root during Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, was spread online and then amplified by Putin before some of America’s elected officials made it their truth. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)


