Category Archives: National
Wall St tumbles as Walmart, Home Depot forecasts disappoint
(Reuters) - Wall Street's main stock indexes fell more than 1% on Tuesday as gloomy forecasts from retailers Home Depot and Walmart added to worries that a sharp rise in interest rates and high inflat...
Feb 21, 2023 FILE PHOTO: A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., February 17, 2023. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
U.S. orders Norfolk Southern to clean polluted Ohio derailment site
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government on Tuesday ordered rail operator Norfolk Southern to clean up contaminated soil and water at the site of a train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, and to a...
Feb 21, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Signage is seen at the headquarters of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 10, 2021. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly
Biden says 'Kyiv stands strong' a year after Russia invaded Ukraine
WARSAW (Reuters) - Fresh from an unannounced visit to Ukraine, President Joe Biden rallied NATO allies in Poland on Tuesday, proclaiming "unwavering" support for Kyiv and a commitment to bolstering th...
Feb 21, 2023 U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks ahead of the one year anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, outside the Royal Castle, in Warsaw, Poland, February 21, 2023. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
U.S. home sales post 12th straight monthly decline; house price inflation cools
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. existing home sales dropped to the lowest level in more than 12 years in January, but the pace of decline slowed, raising cautious optimism that the housing market slump cou...
Feb 21, 2023 FILE PHOTO: A "For Rent, For Sale" sign is seen outside of a home in Washington, U.S., July 7, 2022. REUTERS/Sarah Silbiger
One killed, a dozen injured after blast at Ohio factory scatters molten debris, starts fire
(Reuters) -An explosion tore through an Ohio metals plant on Monday, scattering molten metal and debris that rained down on neighboring buildings, killing one person and injuring at least a dozen othe...
Feb 21, 2023 Firefighters stand around the rubble at the I. Schumann & Co. metals plant after an explosion at the factory in Bedford, Ohio, U.S., February 20, 2023. REUTERS/Aaron Josefczyk
Putin delivers a nuclear warning to the West over Ukraine
MOSCOW (Reuters) -President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday delivered a nuclear warning to the West over Ukraine, suspending a bilateral nuclear arms control treaty, announcing new strategic systems had bee...
Feb 21, 2023 Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers his annual address to the Federal Assembly in Moscow, Russia February 21, 2023. Sputnik/Dmitry Astakhov/Kremlin via REUTERS
Biden walks through Kyiv to show resolve ahead of war's anniversary
KYIV (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden walked around central Kyiv on an unannounced visit on Monday, promising to stand with Ukraine as long as it takes, on a trip timed to upstage the Kremlin ahead...
Feb 20, 2023 U.S. President Joe Biden and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy walk next to Saint Michael’s cathedral, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine February 20, 2023. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
Meta to test monthly subscription service priced at $11.99
(Reuters) -Meta Platforms on Sunday announced that it is testing a monthly subscription service, called Meta Verified, which will let users verify their accounts using a government ID and get a blue b...
Feb 20, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Facebook app logo is seen in this illustration taken, August 22, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo/File Photo
Alec Baldwin's 'Rust' manslaughter charges downgraded, cutting possible prison time
UPDATED 1:54 P.M. (Reuters) -Prosecutors have downgraded the involuntary manslaughter charges against Alec Baldwin, reducing the possible prison time the Hollywood star may face for the 2021 fatal sho...
Feb 20, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Alec Baldwin attends the 2022 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Ripple of Hope Award Gala in New York City, U.S., December 6, 2022. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly
Fresh quake hits Turkey-Syria border area two weeks after disaster
ANTAKYA, Turkey (Reuters) -Another earthquake struck the border region of Turkey and Syria on Monday, just two weeks after the area was devastated by a larger quake which killed more than 47,000 peopl...
Feb 20, 2023 A man speaks on the phone as he sits by a fire near a destroyed building in the aftermath of a deadly earthquake in Antakya, Turkey February 20, 2023. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov
