Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) National News (Master Feed)
WHO opens sleek new site as iconic building cleansed of asbestos
By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization, which is leading the fight against the COVID pandemic, has relocated its operations to a new building while its 1960s structure i...
Dec 21, 2021
U.S. travelers stay closer to home as Omicron looms
By Danielle Kaye NEW YORK (Reuters) - Carla Benton, a Chicago-based book copy editor, was preparing for a Christmas trip to Europe when the Omicron variant of the coronavirus began to make headlines i...
Dec 21, 2021
U.S. gives seven global aid groups $580 million for COVID – Blinken
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is providing the World Health Organization, the United Nations Children's Fund and five other global aid groups an additional $580 million to fight COVID-19, U...
Dec 21, 2021
U.S. cities try new way to help the poor: give them money
By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Spurred by the coronavirus pandemic, dozens of U.S. cities are deploying a new tool in their war on poverty: cash. At least 16 cities and counties are handing o...
Dec 21, 2021
Analysis: Republicans see election opportunity in Biden border struggles
By Ted Hesson and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The leading Republican vying to unseat an Arizona Democrat in a crucial U.S. Senate race next year gets heated when he talks about Democratic P...
Dec 21, 2021
Ten key moments from Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex abuse trial
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jurors are weighing the fate of Ghislaine Maxwell after a three-week trial featuring testimony from women who said she recruited and groomed them for abuse by the lat...
Dec 21, 2021
Key dates leading up to the close of Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex abuse trial
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jury deliberations are expected to continue on Tuesday in the sex abuse trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, the British socialite charged by U.S. prosecutors with recruiting ...
Dec 21, 2021
Jury to resume deliberations in Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex abuse trial
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) - The jury in Ghislaine Maxwell's sex abuse trial is expected to resume deliberations on Tuesday, after three weeks of testimony from women who said the British sociali...
Dec 21, 2021
As Omicron surges, Biden to expand testing and warn unvaccinated
By Jarrett Renshaw and Ahmed Aboulenein WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Biden administration will open federal COVID-19 testing sites in New York City this week and buy 500 million at-home rapid tests that...
Dec 21, 2021
Pentagon stops short of banning military membership in extremist groups
By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon stopped short on Monday of creating a list of extremist groups that military members cannot join and declined to say explicitly wheth...
Dec 20, 2021
