Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) National News (Master Feed)
Biden to visit storm-ravaged New Jersey, New York on Tuesday
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden will travel to Manville, New Jersey, and the Queens borough of New York City on Tuesday to assess damage from Hurricane Ida, the White House said. The t...
Sep 04, 2021
The emotional task of teaching students about 9/11
NEW YORK (Reuters) - As the United States ends its 'forever war' in Afghanistan, a museum in New York is teaching students about the event that set it in motion before they were born: 9/11. The 9/11 T...
Sep 04, 2021
Why Hurricane Ida crippled the New Orleans power grid
By Tim McLaughlin and Stephanie Kelly (Reuters) - Hurricane Ida's 150-mph winds crippled a Louisiana electric grid already vulnerable from aging transmission lines, electricity bottlenecks and $2 bill...
Sep 04, 2021
Florida teachers on edge as mask war, COVID surge mark first weeks of school
By Gabriella Borter HOMESTEAD, Fla. (Reuters) - American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten crouched to sit at a first-graders' table in a Florida school, chatting with masked 6-year-ol...
Sep 04, 2021
Louisianans scramble to find fuel for generators after Ida
By Stephanie Kelly, Devika Krishna Kumar and Karl Plume NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Storm-battered Louisiana residents and area businesses, who have endured almost a week without electricity, are having t...
Sep 04, 2021
Planned Parenthood wins restraining order against Texas anti-abortion group
(Reuters) - A Texas judge on Friday temporarily barred an anti-abortion group from suing Planned Parenthood to enforce a near-total ban on abortion in the state, handing the nation's largest abortion ...
Sep 03, 2021
California Republicans launching campaign to boost trust in mail-in voting
By Sharon Bernstein SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) -California Republicans will launch a campaign on Friday to convince conservatives to trust the state's mail-in balloting system, hoping to boost turno...
Sep 03, 2021
Black unemployment setback shows Fed’s challenges targeting ‘broad and inclusive’ job growth
By Jonnelle Marte and Ann Saphir (Reuters) - Attaining its goal of maximum employment has always been a tall order for the Federal Reserve but broadening the scope of that objective to one that is als...
Sep 03, 2021
Biden orders declassification reviews of documents related to Sept. 11 attacks
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday ordered reviews of the potential declassification of documents from the FBI's investigation into the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United Stat...
Sep 03, 2021
Power lines blocking Mississippi River to be removed Friday -NOBT
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Downed power lines blocking a segment of the Mississippi River since Hurricane Ida made landfdall on Sunday are expected to be removed on Friday afternoon by Entergy Corp, allowing...
Sep 03, 2021
