By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. vehicle travel in July fell 3.3% to 286.6 billion miles, the second consecutive monthly decline in American driving in the face of high fuel prices, the U.S. Transportation Department said. The country witnessed a 9.9 billion-mile decline in July as gas prices remained above $4 a gallon nationally …
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By Jacqueline Thomsen WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department on Friday asked a federal appeals court to let it resume reviewing classified materials seized in an FBI search of former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate. In the filing before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, the Justice Department said the circuit court …
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(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.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said on Monday. (Reporting by Deep Vakil in Bengaluru; Editing by Toby Chopra)
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 infections that kill hundreds of Americans daily. “The pandemic is over,” Biden said during an interview conducted with CBS’ “60 Minutes” program on Wednesday …
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By Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden said in an interview aired on Sunday that his predecessor Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents was “totally irresponsible” but that he is staying out of the investigation. Seeing the classified documents turned up by an Aug. 8 FBI search of Trump’s Florida residence at …
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(Reuters) – Hurricane Fiona made landfall in southwestern Puerto Rico on Sunday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said. The hurricane had maximum sustained winds of 85 mph (140 km/h), NHC said. (Reporting by Shivani Tanna in Bengaluru)
By Ivelisse Rivera and Rich McKay San Juan, Puerto Rico (Reuters) -Tropical storm Fiona gained strength on Saturday as it headed toward Puerto Rico, prompting the National Hurricane Center (NHC) to issue a hurricane warning and alerts for “life threatening floods and mudslides” for the U.S. territory and watches for the U.S. Virgin Islands. One …
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By Rich McKay (Reuters) – Remnants of the former typhoon Merbok flooded Alaska’s western coast on Saturday, bringing high waves, with wind gusts up to 60 mph pushing rising sea waters inland and knocking some houses off foundations in Nome, as the storm crawled north through the Bering Sea, the National Weather Service. The typhoon …
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By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) – Three people were killed on Saturday when two small planes collided in midair over Boulder County, Colorado, crashing into an open field and leaving two separate crash sites, local authorities said. Shortly before 9 a.m. local time, police “received multiple emergency phone calls” from witnesses who saw the two …
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By Nate Raymond (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Friday appeared skeptical of claims that an admissions policy adopted for a highly selective Virginia public high school discriminates against Asian Americans in a closely watched challenge brought by a parents group backed by a conservative legal organization. The Richmond-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of …
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