Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) National News (Master Feed)
Top Senate Republican signals interest in narrow approach to U.S. election reform
By David Morgan and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As Democrats struggled to move forward on broad new voting rights legislation, the U.S. Senate's top Republican signaled interest on Wednesday ...
Jan 05, 2022
Election officials rebut claims in Republican-led Arizona review of Trump’s 2020 loss
By Nathan Layne (Reuters) - Election officials in Arizona's most populous county found nearly every conclusion in a partisan "audit" of Donald Trump's loss in the 2020 presidential election to be misl...
Jan 05, 2022
Americans fed up with robocalls; complaints jump 25%
By Diane Bartz WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Americans were more annoyed by robocalls and other telemarketing calls last year, lodging a 25% increase in complaints with a federal regulator. The U.S. Federal ...
Jan 05, 2022
Exclusive-Walmart halves paid leave for COVID-positive workers, extends hybrid work guidelines
By Siddharth Cavale and Richa Naidu (Reuters) - Walmart Inc will now provide up to one week of paid time-off if a worker contracts COVID-19, instead of its earlier policy for up to two weeks, accordin...
Jan 05, 2022
Ghislaine Maxwell’s prosecutors seek inquiry into juror’s sexual abuse claim
By Luc Cohen and Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors who last week won Ghislaine Maxwell's conviction for her role in Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuses on Wednesday asked the trial ju...
Jan 05, 2022
U.S. doctors group calls out CDC for ‘confusing’ isolation guidance
(Reuters) - The American Medical Association (AMA) on Wednesday criticized the government's guidelines on quarantine and isolation in the United States, saying the guidance was "confusing" and risked ...
Jan 05, 2022
Ex-Trump press secretary Grisham to meet with Jan. 6 committee -source
By Jan Wolfe (Reuters) - Donald Trump's former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham will meet on Wednesday evening with the U.S. congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the...
Jan 05, 2022
Judge sets September date for Trump ally Barrack’s UAE lobbying trial
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Wednesday set a September start date for the trial of former U.S. President Donald Trump's billionaire ally Thomas Barrack, who is charged with illegally lobbying ...
Jan 05, 2022
U.S. President Biden to lay out Trump’s ‘singular responsibility’ in Jan. 6 attacks
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden will lay out the "singular responsibility" his predecessor, Donald Trump, had on the January 6 attacks on the U.S. Capital during his speech marking the...
Jan 05, 2022
Rare winter wildfire to cost insurers about $1 billion – KCC
By Noor Zainab Hussain and Carolyn Cohn (Reuters) - Catastrophe modeling firm Karen Clark & Company (KCC) said on Wednesday it expects insured losses of about $1 billion from the rare winter wildfire ...
Jan 05, 2022
