Category Archives: National
Biden calls Colorado's most destructive wildfire 'code red' climate warning
LOUISVILLE, Colo. (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden, visiting the scene of Colorado's most destructive wildfire on record, said on Friday the rare winter blaze marked the latest "code red" reminder ...
Jan 08, 2022 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden receives an economic briefing in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., March 5, 2021. REUTERS/Tom Brenner
Omicron surge pushes U.S. COVID hospitalizations toward record high
NEW YORK (Reuters) - COVID-19 hospitalizations in the United States are poised to hit a new high as early as Friday, according to a Reuters tally, surpassing the record set in January of last year as ...
Jan 08, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Medical staff treat a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patient in their isolation room on the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Western Reserve Hospital in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, U.S., January 4, 2022. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
Three Georgia men sentenced to life in prison for Ahmaud Arbery murder
(Reuters) -A Georgia judge sentenced Travis McMichael, Gregory McMichael and William "Roddie" Bryan to life in prison on Friday for the 2020 murder of Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man running through their ...
Jan 07, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A woman holds a sign outside the Glynn County Courthouse after the jury reached a guilty verdict in the trial of William "Roddie" Bryan, Travis McMichael and Gregory McMichael, charged with the February 2020 death of 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery, in Brunswick, Georgia, U.S., November 24, 2021. REUTERS/Marco Bello
U.S. Supreme Court conservatives lean against Biden business vaccine policy
UPDATED 2:50 P.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices on Friday questioned the legality of President Joe Biden's pandemic-related vaccine-or-testing mandate for large busin...
Jan 07, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A general view of the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, U.S. October 13, 2021. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo
Biden says he does not think coronavirus is here to stay
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden said on Friday he did not believe the coronavirus will be a permanent affliction for Americans. "No, I don't think COVID is here to stay," Biden told reporte...
Jan 07, 2022 U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the December 2021 jobs report during a speech in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., January 7, 2022. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
Sidney Poitier, first Black actor to win best actor Academy Award, dies at 94
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sidney Poitier, who broke through racial barriers as the first Black winner of the best actor Oscar for his role in "Lilies of the Field," and inspired a generation during the c...
Jan 07, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Actor Sidney Poitier arrives at the 2014 Vanity Fair Oscars Party in West Hollywood, California March 2, 2014. REUTERS/Danny Moloshok
Winter storm in eastern U.S. shuts schools, cancels flights
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A winter storm dumped more than a half a foot of snow in parts of the eastern United States on Friday, forcing schools and federal government offices to close and snarling air t...
Jan 07, 2022 Times Square Alliance workers clear snow in Times Square in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., January 7, 2022. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
U.S. employment growth misses expectations; unemployment rate falls to 3.9%
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. employment increased less than expected in December amid worker shortages and job gains could remain moderate in the near term as spiraling COVID-19 infections disrupt econ...
Jan 07, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A woman waits for a bus next to a "Now Hiring" sign from the United States Postal Service in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., October 30, 2021. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo/File Photo
Supreme Court considers whether to halt Biden vaccine mandates
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday is set to consider requests by Republican state officials and business groups to block President Joe Biden's vaccine mandate for employers with ...
Jan 07, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A syringe is filled with a dose of Pfizer's coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine at a pop-up community vaccination center at the Gateway World Christian Center in Valley Stream, New York, U.S., February 23, 2021. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo
Biden to tour damage from Colorado's most destructive wildfire
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden was due to visit Colorado on Friday to view the devastation left by a rare, winter wildfire that ravaged two Denver-area towns last week, displacing tho...
Jan 07, 2022 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden receives an economic briefing in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., March 5, 2021. REUTERS/Tom Brenner
