Category Archives: National
Omicron, trade weigh on U.S. economy in first quarter
WASHINGTON(Reuters) - The U.S. economy unexpectedly contracted in the first quarter amid a resurgence in COVID-19 cases and drop in pandemic relief money from the government, but the decline in output...
Apr 28, 2022 FILE PHOTO: People pay for their purchases at a supermarket in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., March 28, 2022. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly/File Photo
Former U.S. Marine Reed lands in U.S. after prisoner swap with Russia
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. Marine Trevor Reed, who was detained in Russia and released in a prisoner swap between Russia and the United States, landed in his home country, Reed's spokesperson ...
Apr 28, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. Marine Trevor Reed, who was detained in 2019 and accused of assaulting police officers, is escorted to a plane by Russian service members as part of a prisoner swap between the U.S. and Russia, in Moscow, Russia, in this still image taken from video released April 27, 2022. RU24/Handout via REUTERS TV
Moderna files for U.S. authorization of COVID shot for kids under 6
(Reuters) - Moderna Inc said on Thursday it asked U.S. regulators to authorize its COVID-19 vaccine for children under the age of 6, which would make it the first shot against the coronavirus availabl...
Apr 28, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A vial labelled "Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine" is seen in this illustration taken January 16, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
Caterpillar profit beats estimates on higher demand, price hikes
(Reuters) -Caterpillar Inc reported a better-than-expected first-quarter profit on Thursday, as a boom in construction and mining activities drove demand for its heavy machinery across industrial sect...
Apr 28, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Caterpillar logo is pictured at the 'Bauma' Trade Fair for Construction Machinery, Building Material Machines, Mining Machines, Construction Vehicles and Construction Equipment in Munich, Germany, April 8, 2019. REUTERS/Michaela Rehle/File Photo
More than half of Americans have had COVID infections -U.S. study
(Reuters) -Following the record surge in COVID-19 cases during the Omicron-driven wave, some 58% of the U.S. population overall and more than 75% of younger children have been infected with the corona...
Apr 27, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A general view of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia September 30, 2014. REUTERS/Tami Chappell/File Photo
American Trevor Reed released from Russia in prisoner swap
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -American Trevor Reed, a former U.S. Marine detained since 2019, was released from Russian detention on Wednesday in exchange for Russian pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko, who was serv...
Apr 27, 2022 FILE PHOTO: U.S. ex-Marine Trevor Reed, who was detained in 2019 and accused of assaulting police officers, gestures inside a defendants' cage during a court hearing in Moscow, Russia March 11, 2020. REUTERS/Tatyana Makeyeva
SpaceX launches 'Crew 4' astronauts on flight to space station
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) -Elon Musk's rocket company SpaceX launched four more astronauts to orbit on Wednesday, en route to the International Space Station (ISS) for NASA, including a medical d...
Apr 27, 2022 A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off carrying three NASA astronauts and one ESA astronaut on a six-month expedition to the International Space Station, at Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S. April 27, 2022. REUTERS/Joe Skipper
U.S. judge blocks plan to lift COVID border restrictions for migrants
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A federal judge in Louisiana has ruled that U.S. authorities cannot immediately proceed with plans to lift pandemic restrictions that empowered U.S. agents at the Mexico border t...
Apr 26, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A man, part of a migrant caravan that arrived in the night in Mexico City, gets tested for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at the Basilica of Guadalupe's Pilgrims House in Mexico City, Mexico December 13, 2021. REUTERS/Luis Cortes/File Photo
U.S. issues hazard alert letter to Amazon after fatal warehouse collapse
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued a hazard alert letter to Amazon.com Inc on Tuesday after six contractors were fatally injured and another was severe...
Apr 26, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Amazon crew on lifts document the damage from the tornado that hit an Amazon distribution centre where the roof collapsed in Edwardsville, Illinois, U.S. December 13, 2021. REUTERS/Lawrence Bryant/File Photo
U.S., allies promise heavy arms for Ukraine, shrug off Russian nuclear warning
RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany/KYIV (Reuters) -The United States and its allies pledged new packages of ever heavier weapons for Ukraine during a meeting on Tuesday at a German air base, brushing off a th...
Apr 26, 2022 A man walks near a residential building destroyed during Ukraine-Russia conflict in the southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine April 17, 2022. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko
