Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
U.S. says traffic deaths rose 12% in first nine months of 2021 to 31,720
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. auto safety regulators on Tuesday said traffic deaths rose 12% in the first nine months of 2021 to 31,720 -- the highest number killed on American roads in that period sinc...
Feb 01, 2022
Storm packing heavy ice, snow bears down on central U.S
(Reuters) - A major winter storm is expected to wallop much of the central United States on Tuesday, bringing heaving snow, freezing rain and ice, the National Weather Service (NWS) said. The system, ...
Feb 01, 2022
NFL-Brady announces retirement from NFL after record-setting career
(Reuters) - Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady, widely considered the greatest player in NFL history, announced his retirement on Tuesday after a career during which he won a record seven Supe...
Feb 01, 2022
More U.S. Black colleges and universities receive bomb threats
(Reuters) - Several Black colleges and universities in the United States received bomb threats and put their campuses on lockdown on Tuesday, a day after a rash of similar threats forced the cancellat...
Feb 01, 2022
U.S. lightning bolt leaps into record books at 768 km long
GENEVA (Reuters) - A single lightning bolt that leapt across three U.S. states has been identified as the longest ever, the U.N. weather agency said on Tuesday. Dubbed a megaflash, the rare low-rate h...
Feb 01, 2022
Analysis-White House retools strategy toward Senator Manchin, with Biden agenda on the line
By Jarrett Renshaw, Richard Cowan and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White House officials are planning a more subtle approach to try to win pivotal U.S. Senator Joe Manchin's support for a key ...
Feb 01, 2022
Fire at fertilizer plant in North Carolina may cause explosion, area evacuated
(Reuters) - A blaze at a fertilizer plant in Winston-Salem, North Carolina has forced an evacuation of about 6,500 residents due to the possibility of a large explosion, officials said on Tuesday. Loc...
Feb 01, 2022
U.S. federal prisons locked down after deadly gang fight
(Reuters) - All federal prisons in the United States were locked down on Tuesday after a deadly gang brawl involving several inmates at a penitentiary in Texas. The Bureau of Prisons (BOP) wrote in an...
Jan 31, 2022
U.S. orders family members of government employees in Belarus to leave
(Reuters) - The United States on Monday ordered the family members of its government employees in Belarus to leave the country as it warned against travel there amid tensions between Washington and Ru...
Jan 31, 2022
Pfizer vaccine for children under 5 may be available in U.S. by end-Feb – report
(Reuters) - Pfizer Inc and Germany's BioNTech SE are expected to submit an emergency use authorization request on Tuesday to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for vaccines for children aged ...
Jan 31, 2022
