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Japan’s retail sales extend gains but COVID-19 challenges persist
By Yoshifumi Takemoto and Kantaro Komiya TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan's retail sales rose for a fifth straight month in July, beating expectations as the consumer sector continued its recovery, although a c...
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Oil rises as Hurricane Ida pounds U.S. crude patch, Louisiana
TOKYO (Reuters) - Oil prices rose around 1% on Monday after a powerful hurricane ploughed through the Gulf of Mexico https://www.reuters.com/world/us/gulf-coast-ports-close-loop-halts-oil-deliveries-a...
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New Orleans’ levees got a $14.5 billion upgrade. Will they hold?
By Nathan Layne (Reuters) - Shortly after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in 2005, the city went to work on building a $14.5 billion system of gates, flood walls and levees that would protect...
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Biden to welcome Zelenskiy to White House on Wednesday
By Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden will meet with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy at the White House on Wednesday in a show of solidarity between the two countries, th...
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Biden visits FEMA headquarters for Ida briefing
(Reuters) - President Joe Biden on Sunday visited the headquarters of the Federal Emergency Management Agency in Washington for a briefing about Hurricane Ida, which came barreling ashore in Louisiana...
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Over 500,000 people without power due to Hurricane Ida -Entergy Louisiana website
(Reuters) - More than 500,000 people were without power in Louisiana because of Hurricane Ida, Entergy Louisiana's website showed on Sunday. The energy company's outage map showed the number of affect...
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U.S. administers 368.9 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines – CDC
(Reuters) - The United States has administered 368,863,734 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Sunday morning and distributed 440,028,085 doses, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Pr...
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Actor Ed Asner, star of ‘Mary Tyler Moore,’ ‘Lou Grant’ dies at age 91 – family
By Will Dunham (Reuters) - Ed Asner, who played a gruff newsman for laughs and for drama in the classic TV series "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and its spinoff "Lou Grant" in the 1970s and 1980s and was...
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New Orleans homeless shelters scramble to bring in residents, facing storm and Covid surge
By Devika Krishna Kumar NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Alarmed aid workers raced to get New Orleans' homeless off the streets on Sunday ahead of fast-moving Hurricane Ida, a complicated, last-minute push mad...
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Fauci backs COVID-19 vaccine mandate for U.S. school children
By Linda So WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. infectious disease expert, said on Sunday he supports COVID-19 vaccine mandates for children attending schools as the highly contagio...
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