Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
U.S. adds cargo planes operated by Iranian airlines flying to Russia to export violation list
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Commerce Department on Monday said it will add 3 Boeing 747 airplanes operated by Iranian airlines providing cargo services to Russia to a list of planes believed to vi...
Sep 19, 2022
Freed American stable after prisoner exchange with Taliban -official
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - American engineer Mark Frerichs appears to be in stable condition after his release on Monday in exchange for an Afghan tribal leader, a senior Biden administration official sai...
Sep 19, 2022
U.S. home builder sentiment falls for ninth straight month – NAHB
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Confidence among U.S. single-family homebuilders fell for the ninth straight month in September as soaring mortgage rates and persistently high prices for building materials mad...
Sep 19, 2022
Focus is on American released from Afghanistan’s re-entry, Biden says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mark Frerichs, an American engineer released from Afghanistan in a prisoner swap on Monday, should have a healthy, safe return to the United States, U.S. President Joe Biden sai...
Sep 19, 2022
U.S. traffic deaths rise 0.5% in first half of 2022
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. traffic deaths rose 0.5% in the first half of 2022 to 20,175, the highest number killed in the period since 2006, according to an early estimate released by U.S. regulators...
Sep 19, 2022
Organized groups fuel rapid rise in U.S. book-banning, report says
By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) - Book bans accelerated across the United States during the 2021-2022 school year, largely through the efforts of organized groups that called on public schools to remove mo...
Sep 19, 2022
Trump ally’s trial on foreign agent charges to start with jury selection
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jury selection is set to begin on Monday in the trial of Tom Barrack, the private equity executive and onetime fundraiser for former President Donald Trump, on charge...
Sep 19, 2022
Hurricane Fiona makes landfall in the Dominican Republic – U.S. NHC
(Reuters) - The eye of Hurricane Fiona made landfall along the coast of the Dominican Republic near Boca de Yuma at 3:30 a.m. AST, packing sustained winds of 90 miles per hour (150 km per hour), the U...
Sep 19, 2022
Taliban release American engineer Mark Frerichs in prisoner swap -acting foreign min
KABUL (Reuters) - The Taliban's acting foreign minister on Monday said the group had released American engineer Mark Frerichs in exchange for the United States freeing a senior Taliban figure on Monda...
Sep 19, 2022
Biden says ‘the pandemic is over’ even as death toll, costs mount
By Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden said in an interview aired on Sunday that "the pandemic is over," even though the country continues to grapple with coronavirus infe...
Sep 18, 2022
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