Category Archives: National
Dick Cheney, powerful former US vice president who pushed for Iraq war, dies at 84
(Reuters) -Dick Cheney, a driving force behind the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 who was considered by presidential historians as one of the most powerful vice presidents in U.S. history has died at a...
Nov 04, 2025 Former Vice President Dick Cheney speaks at the Republican Jewish Coalition's annual meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada February 24, 2017. REUTERS/David Becker
For first time in long US government shutdown, hints of progress toward reopening
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The first glimmers toward ending a near-record long federal government shutdown were seen in the U.S. Capitol on Monday, as leading Senate Republicans and Democrats talked of a p...
Nov 04, 2025 People walk along the National Mall, in view of the U.S. Capitol building, more than a month into the continuing U.S. government shutdown in Washington, D.C., U.S., November 2, 2025. REUTERS/Kent Nishimura
Trump administration injects more temporary funding for child nutrition program
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The administration of President Donald Trump has made $450 million in tariff revenue available for a childhood nutrition program imperiled by the federal government shutdown, acc...
Nov 03, 2025 A sign for food stamps, as the U.S. President Donald Trump administration said it plans on Monday to partially fund food aid for millions of Americans after two judges ruled it must use contingency funds to pay for the benefits in November during the government shutdown, outside a grocery story in Baldwin, New York, U.S., November 3, 2025. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
Trump administration to pay reduced food aid benefits using emergency funds
(Reuters) -The Trump administration said it plans to partially fund food aid for millions of Americans on Monday after two judges ruled it must use contingency funds to pay for the benefits in Novembe...
Nov 03, 2025 FILE PHOTO: A worker sorts fresh fruit and vegetables at La Colaborativa's food pantry, as food aid benefits, in Chelsea, Massachusetts, U.S., October 29, 2025. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo
US charges two men in Michigan over alleged ISIS-inspired plot
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Federal prosecutors have charged two men tied to what they allege was an ISIS-inspired plot based out of Michigan to carry out an attack in the U.S., according to a court documen...
Nov 03, 2025 An FBI logo is pictured on an agent's shirt during the U.S. law enforcements raid on Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska's property in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S. October 19, 2021. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
Duffy says he would shutter US airspace if he thought it was unsafe
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Monday the Trump administration would shutter the U.S. aviation system if he thought an ongoing government shutdown was making it too ris...
Nov 03, 2025 U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy attends a press conference to discuss the impact of the government shutdown on air safety workers and travel at Philadelphia International Airport in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., October 24, 2025. REUTERS/Rachel Wisniewski
Trump administration must pay food aid benefits within days, judge says
NEW YORK (Reuters) -A federal court in Rhode Island on Saturday ordered the Trump administration to make full food aid benefit payments by Monday, or partial payments by Wednesday, while acknowledging...
Nov 03, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Volunteers place food items in vehicles during a mobile food distribution at Cedar Creek High School in Cedar Creek, Texas, U.S., November 1, 2025. REUTERS/Kaylee Greenlee/File Photo
Obamacare premiums double, adding post Halloween fright for US health insurance shoppers
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Americans shopping for 2026 Obamacare health insurance plans are facing a more than doubling of monthly premiums on average and are likely to postpone signing up in hope...
Nov 01, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Signs for former Obamacare health insurance plans lay next to a fence in Columbia, South Carolina, U.S., January 28, 2023. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/File Photo
Baseball-Dodgers force Game Seven in World Series with win over Blue Jays
TORONTO (Reuters) -The Los Angeles Dodgers kept alive on Friday their hopes of becoming Major League Baseball's first repeat champion in 25 years, with a 3-1 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays that pu...
Nov 01, 2025 Oct 31, 2025; Toronto, Ontario, CAN; Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Tyler Glasnow (31) and pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto (18) celebrate after defeating the Toronto Blue Jays during game six of the 2025 MLB World Series at Rogers Centre. Mandatory Credit: John E. Sokolowski-Imagn Images
US judge permanently blocks Trump order requiring voters to prove citizenship
NEW YORK (Reuters) -A federal judge on Friday permanently blocked part of an executive order from Republican U.S. President Donald Trump, ruling that the president cannot require voters to show passpo...
Oct 31, 2025 U.S. President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 11, 2025. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
