Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) National News (Master Feed)
California seeks help as wildfires threaten communities
By Sharon Bernstein SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) - Nearly two dozen massive wildfires continued to ravage parts of California on Saturday, fueled by high temperatures and ongoing lightning strikes, in...
Aug 22, 2020
Marco forecast to become hurricane as governors urge residents to take precautions
By Brendan O'Brien and Erwin Seba (Reuters) - Marco, one of two tropical storms headed for the U.S. Gulf Coast, was forecast to strengthen into a hurricane later on Saturday as coastal governors urged...
Aug 22, 2020
WHO says children aged 12 and over should wear masks like adults
ZURICH (Reuters) - The World Health Organization (WHO) said children aged 12 and over should wear masks to help tackle the COVID-19 pandemic under the same conditions as adults, while children between...
Aug 22, 2020
Rescuers recover two bodies in Texas offshore explosion
(Reuters) - The bodies of two of four workers missing after a dredging vessel caught fire and sank in Corpus Christi, Texas, harbor were recovered on Saturday, the U.S. Coast Guard said. Four workers ...
Aug 22, 2020
Trump says without proof that FDA ‘deep state’ slowing COVID trials
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday accused members of the "deep state" at the Food and Drug Administration, without providing evidence, of working to slow testing of COVID-...
Aug 22, 2020
Marco expected to become hurricane as it heads toward U.S. Gulf coast, NHC says
(Reuters) - Tropical storm Marco is forecast to strengthen into a hurricane later on Saturday with its center expected to move through the Yucatan Channel into the southeastern Gulf of Mexico by eveni...
Aug 22, 2020
Lukashenko must leave sooner or later, opposition leader Tsikhanouskaya says
VILNIUS (Reuters) - The people of Belarus will not allow President Alexander Lukashenko to treat them as before and he will have to leave sooner or later, his main opponent, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, ...
Aug 22, 2020
West African mediators jet to Mali seeking reversal of coup
BAMAKO/LONDON (Reuters) - Mediators from West Africa's regional bloc are due in Mali on Saturday for talks aimed at reversing a coup that has been condemned abroad, but celebrated by many in a country...
Aug 22, 2020
U.S. House takes on Postal reforms seen as threat to mail-in ballots
By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Democratic-led U.S. House of Representatives will vote on Saturday on providing the cash-strapped Postal Service with $25 billion and block policies that hav...
Aug 22, 2020
COVID-19 scary? Japan group offers coffins, chainsaws for stress relief
TOKYO (Reuters) - Finding the pandemic scary? A Japanese group is trying to take people's minds off COVID-19 - by putting them in coffins surrounded by chainsaw-wielding zombies. Customers this weeken...
Aug 22, 2020
