Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) National News (Master Feed)
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...
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 ...
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...
Aug 28, 2021
Biden says he has coordinated with governors, electric utilities on Hurricane Ida
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden on Saturday said he has spoken to governors of states in the Gulf of Mexico region and has coordinated with electric utilities to restore power after Hu...
Aug 28, 2021
Biden to attend briefing on Hurricane Ida on Saturday -White House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden will attend a briefing later on Saturday by administration officials on preparations for Hurricane Ida, which is expected to make landfall in the United...
Aug 28, 2021
Hurricane Nora barrels towards southwest coast of Mexico
MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) - The U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) warned on Saturday of torrential rains and life-threatening flash flooding and mudslides as Hurricane Nora barreled toward Mexico...
Aug 28, 2021
Protesters to march in Washington, U.S. cities for voting rights
(Reuters) - Protesters will march in U.S. cities on Saturday to demand protections for voting rights, using the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s historic 1963 March on Washington to push back a...
Aug 28, 2021
U.S. Gulf Coast braces for Hurricane Ida after Cuba takes hit
By Maria Caspani and Steve Gorman (Reuters) - Hurricane Ida churned toward the U.S. Gulf coast on Saturday, forecast to gather strength in coming hours and prompting evacuations of flood-prone New Orl...
Aug 28, 2021
U.S. judge set to rule on Native American request to block Nevada mine
By Ernest Scheyder (Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge said on Friday she will rule by Sept. 3 on whether to grant a request from Native Americans to temporarily block Lithium Americas Corp from excavati...
Aug 27, 2021
Convicted RFK assassin Sirhan Sirhan granted parole
By Brendan O'Brien (Reuters) - Sirhan Sirhan, the Palestinian refugee convicted of assassinating U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, was granted release by a California parole board...
Aug 27, 2021
