Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) National News (Master Feed)
Farming for the climate: Off-season ‘cover’ crops expand as U.S. growers eye low-carbon future
By Karl Plume CHICAGO (Reuters) - Illinois farmer Jack McCormick planted 350 acres of barley and radishes last fall as part of an off-season crop that he does not intend to harvest. Instead, the crops...
Jan 04, 2022
Democracy under siege: An hour-by-hour look at the assault on the U.S. Capitol
By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Almost a year has passed since supporters of Donald Trump attacked the U.S. Capitol in a failed attempt to overturn his election defeat, the worst assault on the se...
Jan 04, 2022
U.S. Congress probe of deadly Capitol attack racing against election deadline
By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress' probe of the deadly Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol by Donald Trump supporters soon begins weeks of public hearings that will put the investigation...
Jan 04, 2022
Drone attack on U.S. forces foiled west of Baghdad
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Two explosive-laden drones were shot down on Tuesday by Iraq's air defenses as they approached the Ain al-Asad air base, which hosts U.S. forces, west of Baghdad, an official of th...
Jan 04, 2022
Illinois Democrat Bobby Rush to retire after nearly 30 years in Congress – media
(Reuters) - U.S Representative Bobby Rush, a civil rights campaigner and Black Panther activist in the 1960s, is not seeking re-election and plans to retire at the end of the year after completing 15 ...
Jan 04, 2022
U.S. judge blocks Pentagon from punishing Navy SEALs who refused COVID-19 vaccine-report
(Reuters) -A federal judge on Monday barred the U.S. Department of Defense from punishing a group of Navy SEALs and other special forces members who refused COVID-19 vaccines on religious grounds. U.S...
Jan 03, 2022
U.S. judge dismisses case against Jeffrey Epstein’s jail guards
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Monday formally dismissed the federal government's criminal case against two Manhattan jail guards who admitted to falsifying records on the night that financier J...
Jan 03, 2022
The rise and fall of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes
By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) - A U.S. jury on Monday found Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes guilty of conspiring to defraud investors in the blood testing startup, convicting her on four of 11 counts...
Jan 03, 2022
U.S. jury reaches verdict in Theranos trial, to be read soon
By Jane Lanhee Lee SAN JOSE, Calif. (Reuters) - The U.S. jury in Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes' fraud trial said on Monday it has reached a unanimous verdict. It will be read shortly. Prosecutors ...
Jan 03, 2022
Aviation groups ask White House to intervene in 5G safety dispute
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Groups representing U.S. airlines, aircraft manufacturers and airports urged the White House late on Monday to intervene to delay the use by wireless carriers of C-Band spectrum...
Jan 03, 2022
