• 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 interview, which took place after a […]
  • 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 tropical storm strength by early […]
  • By Steve Gorman Oct 6 (Reuters) – Convicted killer Christa Pike, who survived Tennessee’s effort to execute her by lethal injection last week, foiling the state’s first attempt to put a woman to death in two centuries, has regained consciousness and is speaking, her lawyers said in a statement on Tuesday. Despite severe injuries to […]
  • (Corrects timing of shooting to earlier this year in first paragraph) By Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON, Oct 6 (Reuters) – US authorities arrested a person in Washington state on Tuesday who they accuse of providing advice and offering to live stream a deadly mass shooting carried out earlier this year in Canada. James Cody Bryant, 30, […]
  • By Nandita Bose and Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, Oct 6 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he was thinking about suspending the federal gas tax as high gas and diesel prices pose a risk to his Republican Party heading into the November midterm US elections. DETAILS AND QUOTES: • “We’re thinking about that,” Trump […]