Category Archives: National
Parents of girl shot dead in dressing room by Los Angeles police call for justice
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The parents of a girl killed in a clothing store dressing room by a Los Angeles police officer's stray bullet last week called for justice on Tuesday, the day after police rele...
Dec 28, 2021 Bodycam footage shows the assault suspect at a shopping mall in North Hollywood, California, U.S., December 23, 2021 in this still image taken from a video released by the LAPD after the accidental shooting of a teenage girl killed in a clothing store when a bullet pierced the wall of her dressing room as officers opened fire on an assault suspect. Video taken December 23, 2021. LAPD/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES. MANDATORY CREDIT. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY.
CDC: Omicron estimated to be 58.6% of coronavirus variants
(Reuters) - The Omicron variant was estimated to be 58.6% of the coronavirus variants circulating in the United States for the week ending Dec. 25, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease ...
Dec 28, 2021 Midwest Communications
U.S. helps Ukraine to strengthen its border with Russia, Belarus
KYIV (Reuters) - The United States will finance projects including surveillance and monitoring equipment to strengthen Ukraine's borders with Russia and Belarus, amid continuing escalation with Moscow...
Dec 28, 2021 Members of the Ukrainian State Border Guard Service patrol along the Ukraine-Belarus border, near the border with Poland, in Volyn region, Ukraine November 16, 2021. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
Gunman kills four in Denver-area shooting spree before he is killed by police
DENVER (Reuters) -A lone gunman shot four people to death and wounded three, including a police officer, on Monday in a Denver-area shooting spree that unfolded at several locations and ended with pol...
Dec 28, 2021
CDC cuts quarantine time for COVID-affected Americans to 5 days
(Reuters) -U.S. health authorities on Monday shortened the recommended time for isolation for asymptomatic Americans with COVID-19 to five days from the previous guidance of 10 days. The Centers for D...
Dec 27, 2021 People queue for a COVID-19 test on Broadway in SoHo as the Omicron coronavirus variant continues to spread in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., December 27, 2021. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly
Fauci suggests air travel vaccine mandate as Omicron grounds U.S. flights
SEATTLE (Reuters) -Skyrocketing COVID-19 cases hobbled U.S. airline staff on Monday, causing hundreds of flight cancellations, and prompted the country's top infectious disease expert to suggest the g...
Dec 27, 2021 A family works through check-in at Alaska Airlines ticketing after dozens of flights were listed as cancelled or delayed at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (Sea-Tac) in Seattle, Washington, U.S. December 27, 2021. REUTERS/Lindsey Wasson
'We have more work to do,' Biden says of COVID test shortage
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday pledged to ease a shortage of COVID-19 tests as the Omicron variant spreads across U.S. states this holiday week, threatening to overwhelm hosp...
Dec 27, 2021 U.S. President Joe Biden and his COVID-19 Response Team, Jeff Zients, COVID-19 Response Coordinator, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Dr. Anthony Fauci, White House Chief Medical Advisor, hold their regular call with the National Governors Association to discuss his Administration's response to the Omicron variant and to hear from the Governors on the needs in their States, in the South Court Auditorium at the White House, in Washington, U.S., December 27, 2021. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
U.S. President Biden signs $770 billion defense bill
(Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, for fiscal year 2022, which authorizes $770 billion in defense spending, the White House said on Mo...
Dec 27, 2021 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Army 10th Mountain Division soldiers listen as President Donald Trump speaks before signing the National Defense Authorization Act at Fort Drum, New York, U.S., August 13, 2018. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
Rising Omicron cases disrupt air travel, 800 more flights canceled
(Reuters) - U.S. airlines canceled about 800 more flights on Monday after nixing thousands of flights during the Christmas holiday weekend, as Omicron cases across the country rise, forcing crews to i...
Dec 27, 2021 FILE PHOTO: REUTERS/Elijah Nouvelage
Man says Christmas Eve "Let's Go Brandon" call to POTUS and FLOTUS triggered death threats
(Reuters) - A vulgar anti-Biden slogan made for an awkward moment on Friday during President Joe Biden's phone calls with children tracking Santa's flight when a father said, "Let's Go Brandon." The r...
Dec 27, 2021 U.S. President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden participate in NORAD Santa tracker phone calls from South Court Auditorium at the White House in Washington, U.S., December 24, 2021. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz
