Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
New Orleans homeless shelters scramble to bring in residents, facing storm and Covid surge
By Devika Krishna Kumar NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Alarmed aid workers raced to get New Orleans' homeless off the streets on Sunday ahead of fast-moving Hurricane Ida, a complicated, last-minute push mad...
Syndicated Content Aug 29, 2021
Fauci backs COVID-19 vaccine mandate for U.S. school children
By Linda So WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. infectious disease expert, said on Sunday he supports COVID-19 vaccine mandates for children attending schools as the highly contagio...
Syndicated Content Aug 29, 2021
Factbox-The most intense hurricanes to hit the United States
By Rich McKay (Reuters) - The U.S. Gulf Coast braced on Sunday for what could be one of the strongest storms to hit the continental United States in years. As of Sunday morning, the National Hurricane...
Syndicated Content Aug 29, 2021
Gulf Coast ports close, LOOP halts oil deliveries ahead of Hurricane Ida
By Liz Hampton (Reuters) - Ports from southern Louisiana to Mississippi were closed on Sunday morning as Hurricane Ida raced toward the U.S. Gulf Coast as an extremely dangerous Category 4 storm. The ...
Syndicated Content Aug 29, 2021
Biden to receive bodies of U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan
By Trevor Hunnicutt DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Md. (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden headed to Dover Air Force Base on Sunday to honor members of the U.S. military killed in a suicide bomb attack during ...
Syndicated Content Aug 29, 2021
As recall looms, California governor aims to galvanize Democrats
By Sharon Bernstein SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) - California Governor Gavin Newsom and his supporters are stepping up their fight against a Republican-backed recall with a barrage of door knocks, tex...
Syndicated Content Aug 29, 2021
Louisiana braces for powerful hurricane as COVID-19 taxes hospitals
By Jessica Resnick-Ault and Devika Krishna Kumar NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Hurricane Ida was expected to make landfall in the U.S. on Sunday as an "extremely dangerous" Category 4 storm that could plung...
Syndicated Content Aug 29, 2021
Wedding certificate and cell phone: How a U.S. veteran’s wife fled Afghanistan
By Jonathan Landay WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Whipped by the Taliban and shoved from behind by other desperate Afghans, marriage certificate in hand, Sharifa Afzali thrust her cell phone at the U.S. soldi...
Syndicated Content Aug 28, 2021
U.S. administers 367.9 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines – CDC
(Reuters) - The United States has administered 367,911,870 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Saturday morning and distributed 439,428,235 doses, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ...
Syndicated Content Aug 28, 2021
Theranos founder claims abuse by ex-boyfriend in fraud trial -court filings
(Reuters) - Theranos Inc founder Elizabeth Holmes has accused her former boyfriend, who was president of the blood-testing startup, of abusing her, court documents unsealed on Saturday showed, hinting...
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