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Flooding snarls U.S. Northeast travel
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - United Airlines on Thursday suspended operations at New Jersey's Newark Liberty airport, while U.S. passenger railroad Amtrak canceled trains between Philade...
Sep 02, 2021
U.S. factory orders increase in July despite supply constraints
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New orders for U.S.-made goods rose in July, while business spending on equipment remained strong, signs that manufacturing was holding up despite persistent supply constraints ...
Sep 02, 2021
U.S. traffic deaths jump 10.5% in early 2021
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. traffic deaths rose by 10.5% in the first three months of 2021 even though the number of miles driven fell by 2.1%, preliminary data shows. Traffic deaths have risen dramat...
Sep 02, 2021
Returning to film, Jane Campion says MeToo was like end of apartheid
By Silvia Aloisi VENICE, Italy (Reuters) - Acclaimed New Zealand director Jane Campion, back on the big screen after a 12-year hiatus, praised fellow female film-makers for a string of top awards over...
Sep 02, 2021
Virgin Galactic to launch first commercial research mission
(Reuters) - Space travel company Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc said on Thursday it was launching its first commercial research mission named "Unity 23" in partnership with Italian Air Force. (Reporting...
Sep 02, 2021
Exclusive-Western Union resuming services to Afghanistan – senior exec
By Tom Arnold LONDON (Reuters) - Western Union Co is resuming money-transfer services to Afghanistan, a senior executive told Reuters on Thursday, a decision he said was in line with a U.S. push to al...
Sep 02, 2021
EU ruling on euro clearing to take months, financial chief says
By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) - The European Union will take months to decide if banks can continue clearing derivatives in London, the EU's financial services chief said on Thursday in a sign of how ...
Sep 02, 2021
Sept. 11 victims’ families push U.S. watchdog to investigate FBI’s ‘lost’ evidence
By Jan Wolfe and Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Family members of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, airplane attacks asked a U.S. government watchdog on Thursday to investigate their suspicions th...
Sep 02, 2021
U.S. second-quarter productivity revised lower
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. worker productivity grew a bit more slowly than initially thought in the second quarter, the Labor Department said on Thursday. Nonfarm productivity, which measures hourly ...
Sep 02, 2021
Spain’s Fallas fiesta resumes after COVID hiatus, rain damage
By Eva Manez VALENCIA, Spain (Reuters) - Heavy rain has dampened the giant paper mache figures lined up for the Fallas festival in the Spanish city of Valencia, but not the spirits of participants eag...
Sep 02, 2021
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