Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) National News (Master Feed)
Victims of Florida condominium collapse remembered
By Andy Sullivan and Linda So MIAMI (Reuters) - A couple married for nearly 60 years. A devoted father who spent his days on the baseball field with his young son. A mother whose teenage son was one o...
Jun 27, 2021
Israeli, Mexican rescuers bring distinct experience to Miami building collapse
By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) - The Israelis come trained by war. The Mexicans, by natural disaster. Search-and-rescue teams from Mexico and Israel have joined the phalanx of local firefighters and other...
Jun 27, 2021
U.S. reaches 323 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine administered -CDC
(Reuters) - The United States has administered 323,327,328 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Sunday morning, and distributed 381,282,720 doses, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and P...
Jun 27, 2021
Republican Senate negotiator ready to ‘move forward’ on infrastructure after Biden walkback
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A lead Republican negotiator on an infrastructure deal on Sunday welcomed President Joe Biden's withdrawal of his threat to veto a $1.2 trillion bipartisan bill unless a separat...
Jun 27, 2021
Ice baths for the mind and body break heat of UAE desert
(Refiles to amend dateline to SHARJAH) SHARJAH (Reuters) -As the morning sun bakes the orange dunes of the UAE desert, a man lowers himself into a tinkling tub of ice. Weathering such extreme discomfo...
Jun 27, 2021
Competing Pride marches – one virtual, one in-person – step off in New York
By Peter Szekely NEW YORK (Reuters) - For the second consecutive year, the lingering pandemic will consign New York's annual Pride march to the virtual world on Sunday, but its alter-ego, the Queer Li...
Jun 27, 2021
Freed U.S. editor says he was tortured in Myanmar
(Reuters) - Myanmar security forces punched, slapped and beat a U.S. journalist and kept him blindfolded for more than a week of interrogation, he said after being deported to the United States follow...
Jun 27, 2021
Israeli foreign minister to meet U.S., Bahrain counterparts on Sunday
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid will meet his U.S. and Bahraini counterparts in Rome on Sunday, Lapid's office said, the first face-to-face diplomatic contacts for a senior m...
Jun 27, 2021
Five dead, 156 still missing in Florida building collapse as searchers race against time
By Andy Sullivan SURFSIDE, Fla. (Reuters) - Searchers worked early on Sunday to find more than 150 missing residents amid the rubble of a Florida condo building that collapsed three days ago as questi...
Jun 27, 2021
By chance, Florida building resident stayed at girlfriend’s on night of disaster
By Maria Alejandra Cardona SUNRISE, Fla. (Reuters) - Champlain Towers South resident Erick de Moura was supposed to be home when the building collapsed, but his girlfriend persuaded him to spend the n...
Jun 26, 2021
