With no beds, hospitals ship patients to far-off cities
MISSION, Kan. — Many overwhelmed hospitals, with no beds to offer, are putting critically ill COVID-19 patients on planes, helicopters and ambulances and sending...
Fred drenches US Southeast; Grace lashes quake-hit Haiti
Crews worked to repair downed power lines and clear toppled trees after Tropical Storm Fred move over the Florida Panhandle and trekked inland early...
Biden admin to appeal order blocking oil, gas lease pause
NEW ORLEANS — President Joe Biden's administration filed notice Monday that it is appealing a federal judge’s order that blocked Biden’s suspension of new...
3 tropical systems impacting US, Caribbean and Bermuda
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Three tropical systems were churning early Monday in the Atlantic basin and threatening to impact the U.S. Gulf Coast, some...
Tropical systems threaten to bring heavy rain, flooding
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Forecasters expected the remnants of Fred to return to tropical storm status in the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday as...
Hospitals run low on nurses as they get swamped with COVID
The rapidly escalating surge in COVID-19 infections across the U.S. has caused a shortage of nurses and other front-line staff in virus hotspots that...
Cargill, Continental Grain buying Sanderson Farms for $4.53B
Sanderson Farms is being acquired for $4.53 billion as the price of chicken soars.
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What follows Confederate statues? 1 Mississippi city’s fight
GREENWOOD, Miss. — For more than a century, one of Mississippi's largest and most elaborate Confederate monuments has looked out over the lawn at...
Lynyrd Skynyrd pulls out of Pro Football Hall of Fame show
CANTON, Ohio — Lynyrd Skynyrd has pulled out of the Pro Football Hall of Fame concert after guitarist Rickey Medlocke tested positive for COVID-19.
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Gulf of Mexico’s ‘dead zone’ larger than average this year
This year’s Gulf of Mexico “dead zone” — an area where there’s too little oxygen to support marine life — is larger than average,...