Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) National News (Master Feed)
U.S. CDC to create new information center to forecast disease threats
(Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday it is creating a new disease forecasting center to improve the ability to use data to predict and gauge emerging healt...
Aug 18, 2021
U.S. to start offering COVID-19 vaccine booster doses in September
By Carl O'Donnell (Reuters) - The U.S. government said on Wednesday it plans to make COVID-19 vaccine booster shots widely available to all Americans starting on Sept. 20 as infections rise from the D...
Aug 18, 2021
U.S. plans to double number of asylum officers in Biden border overhaul
By Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden's administration will unveil a major overhaul of the U.S. asylum system on Wednesday, including a plan to double staff, in an effort to speed p...
Aug 18, 2021
The show must go on: Broadway comes back with new investors, bold plans
By Jill Serjeant (Reuters) - Broadway may have seen the longest shutdown in its history but it has lined up new investors and made big plans for its grand reopening, determined to prove that there's n...
Aug 18, 2021
R&B singer R. Kelly goes on trial for alleged sex abuse
By Brendan Pierson NEW YORK (Reuters) - The R&B superstar R. Kelly goes on trial on Wednesday in Brooklyn on charges he was the ringleader of a two-decade scheme where he recruited women and underage ...
Aug 18, 2021
U.S. reports more than 1,000 COVID deaths in single day
By Anurag Maan and Kavya B (Reuters) -The United States reported more than 1,000 COVID-19 deaths on Tuesday, equating to around 42 fatalities an hour, according to a Reuters tally, as the Delta varian...
Aug 18, 2021
California wildfire crisis escalates amid extreme winds
By Fred Greaves POLLOCK PINES, Calif. (Reuters) - California's wildfire crisis escalated on Tuesday as resurgent strong winds fanned the state's biggest conflagration, drove flames from a separate, sm...
Aug 17, 2021
U.S. real estate heir Robert Durst says he would lie about murder in L.A. trial
By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) - Real estate heir Robert Durst said in a Los Angeles courtroom on Tuesday that he would lie under oath rather than admit killing someone, but that he had not lied during fi...
Aug 17, 2021
FBI joins probe of Colorado county election equipment security breach
By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) - The FBI said on Tuesday that it has opened an investigation into the suspected security breach of voting equipment in a western Colorado county, which Colorado's se...
Aug 17, 2021
U.S. military evacuated about 1,100 Americans from Afghanistan on Tuesday
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military evacuated about 1,100 Americans, permanent residents of the United States, and their families from Afghanistan on Tuesday, a White House official said. "Now th...
Aug 17, 2021
