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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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Clubhouse launches surround-sound feature to help chats feel life-like
By Sheila Dang (Reuters) - Clubhouse, an audio-only chat app, said on Sunday it will launch a spatial audio feature to make voices sound as if they're coming from different directions, helping convers...
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Factbox-The most intense hurricanes to hit the United States
By Rich McKay (Reuters) - The U.S. Gulf Coast braced on Sunday for what could be one of the strongest storms to hit the continental United States in years. As of Sunday morning, the National Hurricane...
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‘Candyman’ Towers Over Box Office With Impressive $22 Million Debut
By Rebecca Rubin LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - "Candyman" was summoned to the top of domestic box office charts, collecting an impressive $22.37 million from 3,569 theaters in its first three days of re...
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Gulf Coast ports close, LOOP halts oil deliveries ahead of Hurricane Ida
By Liz Hampton (Reuters) - Ports from southern Louisiana to Mississippi were closed on Sunday morning as Hurricane Ida raced toward the U.S. Gulf Coast as an extremely dangerous Category 4 storm. The ...
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Dubai developer Limitless set to agree third debt restructuring deal
By Davide Barbuscia DUBAI (Reuters) - Dubai state-owned property developer Limitless is set to reach an agreement with creditors over some $760 million of troubled debt, documents seen by Reuters show...
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China’s Huarong posts $24.5 million first-half profit after annual loss
BEIJING (Reuters) - China Huarong Asset Management Co Ltd posted a 158.3 million yuan ($24.46 million) first-half profit following a deep 2020 loss and outlined plans to shore up its balance sheet in ...
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Biden to receive bodies of U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan
By Trevor Hunnicutt DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Md. (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden headed to Dover Air Force Base on Sunday to honor members of the U.S. military killed in a suicide bomb attack during ...
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Three dogs die in West Bluff house fire
PEORIA, Ill. – Fire in Peoria’s West Bluff claimed three dogs. Firefighters responded to a report of a house fire at 1637 W. Main St. at 7:14 p.m. Saturday. They arrived to find smoke comi...
Ed Hammond Aug 29, 2021
Peoria, IL, USA
69 °F Thunderstorm In Vicinity
