Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News

(Reuters) - The United States has administered 358,599,835 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Wednesday morning and distributed 419,612,925 doses, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and...

By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Spikes in COVID-19 infections and strong public messaging are starting to spur increased vaccination rates in hurricane-prone states, but more work is needed, t...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday said he disagreed with world leaders who argue other countries should get their first coronavirus vaccine shots before Americans get a boos...

(Reuters) - To shouts of "Rip his head off!" and "Oh my God!" gladiators in medieval armor battle it out with steel swords and axes, one Saturday a month in New York's Central Park. In one-on-one matc...

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - Ken Kurson, a former editor of the New York Observer newspaper who was pardoned in January by then-U.S. President Donald Trump, was criminally charged on Wedne...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden's administration will require nursing home staff to be vaccinated against COVID-19 as a condition of participating in the Medicare and Medicaid programs, the...

By Peter Szekely and Tyler Clifford (Reuters) - The superintendent of Florida's largest school district sought to impose a mask mandate on Wednesday, the latest chapter in the coronavirus political ba...

By Fred Greaves GRIZZLY FLATS, Calif. (Reuters) - Shifting winds and bone-dry conditions fueled two of California's largest wildfires on Wednesday, forcing several rural communities to evacuate. The b...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden's administration will require nursing home staff be vaccinated against COVID-19 as a condition for their facilities to receive funds from the public Med...

By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) - The effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines for people in American nursing homes and long-term care facilities, where residents are often elderly and frail, has dropped since the...