Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) National News (Master Feed)
U.S. files action to return $150 Million in alleged embezzled funds to Sony
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States filed a civil forfeiture complaint on Monday to return more than $154 million in funds that were allegedly stolen from a subsidiary of Tokyo-based Sony Corp an...
Dec 20, 2021
Texas health officials record first death related to Omicron variant – ABC News
(Reuters) - Health officials in Texas announced on Monday the state recorded the first death related to the Omicron COVID-19 variant, ABC News reported citing Harris County health officials. It is bel...
Dec 20, 2021
Alex Jones of Infowars to invoke right not to testify to U.S. Capitol riot panel
By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Alex Jones, the conspiracy theorist and founder of the right-wing website Infowars, said on Monday said he will invoke his right under the Fifth Amendment of the U....
Dec 20, 2021
U.S. families fear hunger after child-tax credit expires
By Moira Warburton and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The phone calls to Yvonka Hall's health nonprofit in northeastern Ohio from families begging for help feeding their children started in Marc...
Dec 20, 2021
Omicron variant accounts for 73% of U.S. infections – CDC
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Omicron variant of coronavirus accounts for 73% of U.S. coronavirus infections based on sequencing data for the week ended Dec. 18, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Pr...
Dec 20, 2021
Factbox: U.S. climate-change fight threatened as Manchin rejects Biden’s bill
By Timothy Gardner and Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Joe Manchin's rejection of President Joe Biden's $1.75 trillion social spending bill threatens to scuttle hundreds of billi...
Dec 20, 2021
Man gets 46 months on U.S. Capitol riot charges, among the longest sentences yet
By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Washington state man who pleaded guilty to assaulting a police officer during the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol on Monday received a sentence of almost four y...
Dec 20, 2021
U.S. coal miners’ union asks Manchin to ‘revisit’ opposition to spending bill
By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The main union representing U.S. coal miners urged West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin to reconsider his opposition to the Biden administration's $1.75 trilli...
Dec 20, 2021
Magnitude 6.2 earthquake strikes offshore Northern California – EMSC
(Reuters) - An earthquake of magnitude 6.2 struck offshore northern California, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre said on Monday. The earthquake was at a depth of 9 km (5.6 miles), EMSC ...
Dec 20, 2021
White House says they are talking to New York about needs to deal with covid surge
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House is in touch with officials in New York about what the city needs to deal with a new surge of coronavirus cases, press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters on Monda...
Dec 20, 2021
