(Washington, DC) — President Trump says the U.S. will not be attacking Iran before November’s midterm elections. He made the announcement in a Truth Social post today. Trump also noted the U.S. is having what he called “productive discussions” with Iran. He reiterated that Iran “is in very bad condi
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, Oct 8 (Reuters) – Local authorities in Arlington, Virginia, sued the US Department of Interior and National Park Service seeking to block President Donald Trump’s proposed triumphal arch, saying it poses risks to aviation safety and emergency services. The 250-foot (7
By Andrew Hay Oct 8 (Reuters) – Conservation groups sued the US government this week over plans to blast the cliff walls of an eastern Utah canyon and build an oil truck highway through an area covered in historic inscriptions and near world-renowned Native rock art. The project to replace a winding
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, Oct 8 (Reuters) – In a burst of anti-Somali and anti-Muslim rhetoric, President Donald Trump cast the Somali American community as a threat to Minnesota on Thursday, hours after he labeled Muslim US Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed a radical extremist. “The once Great St
By Maria Tsvetkova NEW YORK, Oct 8 (Reuters) – Protesters calling for tougher action against sexual violence rallied on Thursday outside the New York City courthouse where a Cornell University student stirred a national uproar by suing several campus fraternity members she accused of gang rape. The
By Julia Harte and Kristina Cooke NEW YORK, Oct 8 (Reuters) – US immigration agents shot and wounded a man on Thursday in his car with a child present in the Marble Hill neighborhood of New York City, according to the mayor, city police and eyewitnesses. Federal immigration agents have shot at least
By Brad Brooks Oct 8 (Reuters) – Hurricane Isaias strengthened on Thursday as it barreled toward the US Gulf Coast, prompting mandatory evacuations in parts of Florida and emergency declarations in Alabama as forecasters warned of life-threatening storm surges, tornadoes and flooding. Isaias has alr
(San Diego, CA) — The USS Abraham Lincoln returns to its homeport in San Diego this afternoon. About five-thousand sailors aboard the aircraft carrier will be returning to Naval Air Station North Island after a near-record ten-month deployment, marked by reports of dwindling supplies, poor morale an
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, Oct 8 (Reuters) – The collision of an American Airlines regional jet and an Army Black Hawk helicopter near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport last year that killed 67 people was the result of several systemic failures, according to a US Army investigative repo
By Daniel Wiessner Oct 8 (Reuters) – The Trump administration plans to complete a review of the abortion drug mifepristone by March 2027, according to a court filing, paving the way for potential changes that could limit access to the pills. The US Food and Drug Administration in a filing in Louisia
By Akash Sriram and Steve Holland WASHINGTON, Oct 8 (Reuters) – The US suspended Microsoft, major IT outsourcers and software maker Adobe from a key green-card program on Thursday while opening probes into nine top universities, widening a crackdown it says targets fraud and protects American jobs.
LONDON, Oct 8 (Reuters) – British long-term borrowing costs hit fresh multi-decade highs on Thursday as part of a global bond selloff driven by a sharp rise in oil prices triggered by attacks on shipping in the Gulf and concerns that a hurricane will disrupt US oil production. Ten-year gilt yields –
By Nathan Layne and Jason Lange Oct 8 (Reuters) – Voters who backed Democratic former Vice President Kamala Harris in 2024 are far more enthusiastic about casting ballots this November than those who supported President Donald Trump, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found, in a potential warning sign for Republ
(Removes extraneous word “Secret” in paragraph 5) By Christian Martinez and Bo Erickson WASHINGTON, Oct 7 (Reuters) – US President Donald Trump on Wednesday backed a plan to turn part of his West Palm Beach, Florida, golf course into a Camp David-style presidential retreat. “It’s a great idea, and i
CHICAGO, Oct 7 (Chicago) – Seven current and former students at Lincoln University of Missouri sued the state on Wednesday, alleging it violated the US Constitution and federal civil rights law by systematically underfunding the historically Black university for decades. The complaint, filed in fede
Oct 7 (Reuters) – The US Environmental Protection Agency said on Wednesday it would soon propose scrapping a Biden-era rule aimed at curbing large leaks of methane from oil and gas operations. The move is part of a broad Trump administration effort to slash regulations that it says burden US busines
WASHINGTON, Oct 7 (Reuters) – US President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he was considering asking the FBI to look into the death of an 18-year-old Black man whose body was found on a Mississippi barrier island following a Fourth of July trip with friends. Asked by reporters at the White House whet
By Brad Brooks and Nathan Crooks Oct 7 (Reuters) – Tropical Storm Isaias formed in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday and is forecast to strengthen into a hurricane before slamming into the southern US coast early on Saturday, bringing heavy rains, storm surges, and possible tornadoes across several st
By Jonathan Allen Oct 7 (Reuters) – Christa Pike, sentenced to death for a 1995 murder, awoke “angry and confused” in a hospital this week with a long recuperation ahead after surviving Tennessee’s botched effort to execute her, her lawyers said on Wednesday. A week ago, Pike, 50, was taken from the
By Jody Godoy and Doyinsola Oladipo Oct 7 (Reuters) – The US Federal Trade Commission is gearing up to take action against owner Booking Holdings over online ads that appear to direct consumers to a hotel’s site but send them to a third-party site where they are often charged extra, two sources fami
By Michael S. Derby NEW YORK, Oct 7 (Reuters) – The public’s near-term expected path for inflation jumped in September to its highest level in over three years as households downgraded both their current and future financial outlooks, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said on Wednesday. Responden
By Michael Erman Oct 7 (Reuters) – The pharmaceutical industry’s top lobby group on Wednesday sued to invalidate the Trump administration’s efforts to benchmark US drug prices to lower costs overseas in the Medicare health insurance program, arguing that it is an illegal government overreach. The GL
TBILISI, Oct 7 (Reuters) – Georgia has detained a man who planned to sell uranium-238 to a foreign national for $700,000, the national security service said on Wednesday. The Georgian citizen is accused of illegally handling nuclear material and faces up to 10 years in prison, it said in a statement
By Ann Saphir Oct 7 (Reuters) – The interest rate on the most common US home loan jumped last week to its highest in almost three years, worsening affordability for buyers four weeks before elections that will decide if President Donald Trump’s Republicans keep control of Congress. The average 30-ye
By Julie Ingwersen FARGO, North Dakota, Oct 7 (Reuters) – In a small outdoor plot in Fargo, North Dakota, plant breeder Carrie Dottey crouched over a tiny flower on a leafy green soybean plant, conducting research that could help convert the state, known for its wheat, into a soybean powerhouse. No
By Andrew Goudsward, Jonathan Landay, Erin Banco and Ned Parker WASHINGTON, Oct 7 (Reuters) – Kurt Olsen, a Justice Department lawyer who has been a leading Trump administration proponent of false claims the 2020 election was stolen, had his DOJ security clearance terminated last month after failing
By Douglas Gillison WASHINGTON, Oct 7 (Reuters) – Examiners at the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau gave a largely clean bill of health to most of the companies they inspected earlier this year, a light-touch approach that marked a departure from the past for the watchdog, according to three
(Washington, DC) — President Trump is blaming the ongoing student protests in France on “mass migration.” In a Truth Social post Tuesday, Trump said, “What’s happening in France is nothing less than out of control mass migration. This isn’t about schools, this is about Islam wanting to take over a o
By Jacob Bogage FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Oct 6 (Reuters) – US Vice President JD Vance gave an exclusive interview to Reuters on Monday while campaigning in Alaska, a state that has emerged as a key battleground in the November elections that will determine control of Congress. This transcript of the inter
By Sumit Saha and Erwin Seba Oct 6 (Reuters) – US forecasters said on Tuesday a storm forming in the Gulf of Mexico and speeding towards Louisiana and Mississippi would become the first Atlantic hurricane of 2026 within two days. Currently named Tropical Depression Nine, the cyclone would be at trop
