Category Archives: National
Trump acknowledges Biden victory; concedes election
WASHINGTON (Reuters) --President Donald Trump conceded for the first time on Thursday that Joe Biden will be the next U.S. president, a day after his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol as Congress wa...
Jan 07, 2021 REUTERS/Carlos Barria
U.S. lawmaker draws up impeachment papers on Trump after mobs storm capital
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A Democratic congresswoman on Wednesday said she was drawing up articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump after mobs broke into the U.S. Capitol following Trump's ur...
Jan 06, 2021 REUTERS/Eric Miller/File Photo
Gov. JB Pritzker calls for impeachment of President Trump
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- After riots broke out in Washington, D.C. Wednesday during the certification of the Electoral College, Gov. JB Pritzker has called on Congress to impeach and remove President Dona...
Jan 06, 2021 Dalton Kemper/1470-100.3 WMBD
Biden promises 'new day,' Trump heads to Georgia on eve of pivotal Senate runoffs
ATLANTA (Reuters) -President-elect Joe Biden urged Georgia voters on Monday to send two Democrats to Washington in Tuesday runoffs that will decide control of the U.S. Senate, while President Donald T...
Jan 04, 2021 REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Growing number of Republicans joining President Trump's efforts to overturn election results
WASHINGTON (AP) - A growing number of Republican lawmakers are joining President Donald Trump's effort to overturn the election, pledging to reject the results when Congress meets next week to count t...
Jan 02, 2021 AP Photo/Evan Vucci
McConnell thwarts Trump bid for $2,000 stimulus checks
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Senate leader Mitch McConnell dealt a likely death blow on Wednesday to President Donald Trump's bid to boost coronavirus aid to Americans, declining to schedule a swift Sen...
Dec 30, 2020 REUTERS/Leah Millis
New COVID-19 strain found in Colorado as Biden offers gloomy vaccine outlook
WILMINGTON, Del./LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -The first known U.S. case of a highly infectious coronavirus variant was detected in Colorado on Tuesday as President-elect Joe Biden warned it could take years...
Dec 29, 2020 REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Nashville blast suspect killed in explosion, police say
(Reuters) - The 63-year-old suspect in the bombing that rocked Nashville on Christmas morning was killed in the blast that destroyed his motor home and damaged more than 40 businesses, authorities sai...
Dec 28, 2020 Mark Zaleski/The Tennessean/USA TODAY NETWORK via REUTERS.
UPDATE: Unemployment benefits expired Saturday after no approval from President Trump
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Unemployment benefits for millions of Americans lapsed overnight as President Donald Trump refused to sign an end-of-year COVID relief and spending bill that had been cons...
Dec 26, 2020 AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File
Federal investigators identify possible person of interest in Nashville bombing
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Federal investigators have identified a person of interest in connection with the explosion that rocked downtown Nashville on Christmas Day and were searching a home associated...
Dec 26, 2020 Midwest Communications
