Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) National News (Master Feed)
Biden visits FEMA headquarters for Ida briefing
(Reuters) - President Joe Biden on Sunday visited the headquarters of the Federal Emergency Management Agency in Washington for a briefing about Hurricane Ida, which came barreling ashore in Louisiana...
Aug 29, 2021
Over 500,000 people without power due to Hurricane Ida -Entergy Louisiana website
(Reuters) - More than 500,000 people were without power in Louisiana because of Hurricane Ida, Entergy Louisiana's website showed on Sunday. The energy company's outage map showed the number of affect...
Aug 29, 2021
U.S. administers 368.9 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines – CDC
(Reuters) - The United States has administered 368,863,734 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Sunday morning and distributed 440,028,085 doses, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Pr...
Aug 29, 2021
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
Aug 29, 2021
