Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) National News (Master Feed)
Pioneering Tuskegee Airman Charles McGee dies at 102
By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) - Retired Brigadier General Charles McGee, part of the pioneering all-Black Tuskegee Airmen during World War Two and one of its most decorated pilots, died on Sunday at the...
Jan 16, 2022
Airlines cancel over 2,700 U.S. flights as winter storm hits U.S. East Coast
By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) - Airlines canceled over 2,700 U.S. flights on Sunday as a winter storm combining high winds and ice was poised to hit the U.S. East Coast over the holiday weekend. The fli...
Jan 16, 2022
Biden calls Texas synagogue hostage situation ‘act of terror’
(Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden said that a gunman who disrupted a religious service in a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, on Saturday and took four people hostage had engaged in an "act of terro...
Jan 16, 2022
Biden to continue push for voting rights bill as he honors King’s legacy
By Andrea Shalal PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden traveled to Philadelphia on Sunday to honor the legacy of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., as he continues to press ...
Jan 16, 2022
‘Upside down again’: Omicron surge roils U.S. small businesses
By Brad Brooks and Jonathan Allen LUBBOCK, Texas (Reuters) - Phillip Howard pointed toward a stack of black ski pants piled atop a counter in his winter sports shop as evidence of the hurdles small bu...
Jan 16, 2022
Police in Colleyville, Texas, involved in standoff at synagogue -media
(Reuters) - Authorities are negotiating with a man who has reportedly taken people hostage at a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, during services on Saturday, according to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram....
Jan 15, 2022
DirecTV loss could cripple rightwing One America News
By John Shiffman WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The largest satellite provider in the United States said late Friday it will drop One America News, a move that could financially cripple the rightwing TV netwo...
Jan 15, 2022
Baltimore prosecutor asserts innocence after perjury indictment
(Reuters) - Baltimore's top prosecutor, Marilyn Mosby, said on Friday she was innocent of wrongdoing, a day after she was indicted on federal charges of perjury and filing false loan applications rela...
Jan 14, 2022
DirecTV to drop far-right channel OAN from its service
(Reuters) - U.S. satellite broadcaster DirecTV said on Friday it will drop far-right channel One America News (OAN) from its service when its contract expires, in a blow to the popular news network. O...
Jan 14, 2022
Maxwell sentencing set for June, as U.S. judge weighs request for new trial
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) - The judge in British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell's sex abuse trial on Friday set a sentencing date of June 28 but said she is still weighing Maxwell's request to over...
Jan 14, 2022
