Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) National News (Master Feed)
US government offices close in DC due to severe storm threat
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. government offices in the Washington area closed early on Monday due to a severe storm threat and tornado watch that was disrupting air travel. The Nati...
Aug 07, 2023
Brazil courts private sector help to reforest the Amazon, minister says
By Lisandra Paraguassu BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's government wants the private sector to help reforest large swathes of the Amazon, the country's Environment Minister Marina Silva said in an interv...
Aug 07, 2023
William Friedkin, acclaimed ‘Exorcist’ director, dead at 87 – Variety
By Will Dunham , 2023 (Reuters) - William Friedkin, who achieved cinematic immortality by directing the bleak, gritty 1971 drug-smuggling thriller "The French Connection" and the terrifying 1973 demon...
Aug 07, 2023
Multinational team fights Cyprus wildfire, largely contained
NICOSIA (Reuters) - Firefighting crews from Greece, Israel, Lebanon, Jordan and Britain, were dispatched on Monday to battle a forest fire in Cyprus raging north of the city of Limassol. The blaze bro...
Aug 07, 2023
U.S. consumers saying ‘bad time to buy’ a house hits 13-year high in July
By Safiyah Riddle (Reuters) - The share of U.S. consumers who believe it is a bad time to buy a home reached the highest level in at least 13 years in July, according to a survey released on Monday, a...
Aug 07, 2023
Julie Su’s status as acting labor secretary gets watchdog review – Bloomberg News
(Reuters) - U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is reviewing whether Julie Su should be limited in how long she can serve as acting secretary of labor under federal vacancy rules, Bloomberg Ne...
Aug 07, 2023
Ahead of possible Trump indictment, Atlanta locks down courthouse
By Rich McKay and Josephine Walker ATLANTA (Reuters) - Law-enforcement officers surrounded the Fulton County courthouse on Monday in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, amid closed roads and traffic barriers p...
Aug 07, 2023
Judge dismisses Trump’s defamation claim against E. Jean Carroll
NEW YORK (Reuters) -A U.S. judge on Monday dismissed Donald Trump's defamation counterclaim against the writer E. Jean Carroll, who won a $5 million jury verdict for defamation and sexual assault agai...
Aug 07, 2023
Yoga enthusiasts master the cat pose at kitten yoga session
By Anushree Fadnavis NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Dressed in gym clothing and armed with foam mats, a group of yoga enthusiasts gathered at a studio in the south of the Indian capital for an hour of yoga wit...
Aug 07, 2023
Minneapolis ex-officer sentenced to 4-3/4 years in Floyd killing
By Brendan O'Brien (Reuters) -Former Minneapolis police officer Tou Thao was sentenced on Monday to 4-3/4 years in prison for aiding and abetting manslaughter in the 2020 killing of George Floyd, a Bl...
Aug 07, 2023
