Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) National News (Master Feed)
Factbox-Over 140,000 homes without power in Florida due to Hurricane Idalia
(Reuters) - More than 140,000 homes and businesses were without power in Florida on Wednesday as Category 3 hurricane Idalia slammed the state, according to data from PowerOutage.us. Hurricane Idalia ...
Aug 30, 2023
Britain’s Royal Blood finds spiritual home in US
By Sarah Mills (Reuters) - Rock duo Royal Blood began its life in the southern English coastal resort of Worthing, but says it feels at home in the United States, where it will tour its fourth full le...
Aug 30, 2023
Hong Kong issues lowest typhoon warning as Saola edges closer
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's observatory issued its lowest typhoon signal on Wednesday as Typhoon Saola moved across the northeastern part of the South China Sea to edge closer to the Asian finan...
Aug 30, 2023
Archaeologists find ‘mystery’ ducts near biblical Jerusalem relics
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An almost three millennia-old network of hewn-rock ducts unearthed in Jerusalem has baffled archaeologists, given the lack of comparable biblical finds, or obvious links to an an...
Aug 30, 2023
Vitamin maker MaryRuth Organics explores sale-sources
By Abigail Summerville NEW YORK (Reuters) - MaryRuth Organics LLC is exploring options including a sale that could value the maker of health supplements at nearly $1 billion, including debt, according...
Aug 30, 2023
Rising caffeine levels spark calls for ban on energy drink sales to children
By Kailyn Rhone (Reuters) - Pediatricians and parents are calling for the U.S. to treat new high-caffeine energy drinks like alcohol and cigarettes and ban their sale to minors as a single serving can...
Aug 30, 2023
Explainer-How climate change is fueling hurricanes
By Gloria Dickie (Reuters) - Hurricane Idalia's arrival on Florida's Gulf Coast due on Wednesday signaled activity in the Atlantic's hurricane alley might not be as quiet this year as meteorologists h...
Aug 30, 2023
Ex-Proud Boys leaders face sentencing for Jan. 6 attack on U.S. Capitol
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Wednesday will consider whether to impose the steepest sentence yet on two former leaders of the right-wing Proud Boys convicted of seditious c...
Aug 30, 2023
Idalia strengthens into Category 4 hurricane as it nears Florida coast – NHC
(Reuters) - Idalia has strengthened into a Category 4 hurricane on the five-step Saffir-Simpson wind scale as nears the Florida Big Bend region, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said on Wednes...
Aug 30, 2023
Biden administration pledges $95 million for Hawaii’s electric grid post Maui fire
(Reuters) - The Biden administration will provide $95 million through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to improve Hawaii's electric grid, the White House said on Wednesday. The island of Maui was dev...
Aug 30, 2023
