Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) National News (Master Feed)
U.S. Air Force says two crew supporting Blinken’s foreign trip tested positive
By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two U.S. Air Force crew members supporting U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken's travel last week to the United Kingdom and Southeast Asia have tested positiv...
Dec 18, 2021
U.S. Senate confirms ex-Chicago Mayor Emanuel to be ambassador to Japan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate early Saturday confirmed President Joe Biden's nominee Rahm Emanuel to be ambassador to Japan, despite questions about the murder of a Black teenager by a white ...
Dec 18, 2021
U.S. appeals court reinstates COVID-19 vaccine-or-test rule for workplaces
By Tom Hals WILMINGTON, Del (Reuters) -A U.S. appeals court on Friday reinstated a nationwide vaccine-or-testing COVID-19 mandate for large businesses, a federal government rule that covers 80 million...
Dec 17, 2021
Holmes ‘went down with the ship,’ lawyer tells Theranos jury
By Jody Godoy SAN JOSE, Calif. (Reuters) - Elizabeth Holmes' defense attorney made his final argument to jurors on Friday, saying the Theranos founder was "devoted to her mission" at the blood-testing...
Dec 17, 2021
Ghislaine Maxwell says she will not testify in sex abuse trial
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Ghislaine Maxwell said on Friday she will not testify in her own defense in her criminal sex abuse trial. Maxwell, 59, has pleaded not guilty to eight counts of sex trafficking an...
Dec 17, 2021
Florida man who threw plank, extinguisher at police gets longest Capitol riot sentence
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal judge sentenced a U.S. Capitol rioter to more than five years in prison on Friday on charges that he threw a wooden plank and a fire extinguisher at police during the ...
Dec 17, 2021
Lawsuit accuses Washington-area police of involvement in sex-trafficking ring
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A woman has accused two former members of a Virginia police department of sexually assaulting her as part of a deal to protect the leader of a human traffickin...
Dec 17, 2021
‘Tidal wave’: Omicron could put U.S. COVID-19 surge into overdrive
By Joseph Ax and Barbara Goldberg (Reuters) - Two years into the coronavirus pandemic, the United States is confronting another dark winter, with the red-hot Omicron variant threatening to further inf...
Dec 17, 2021
Sadness, anger for Amazon workers who died during tornado
EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. (Reuters) - Families and friends of six workers who died after a tornado tore into an Amazon warehouse expressed sadness and anger as they said final farewells to the victims in a s...
Dec 17, 2021
Southwest CEO tests positive for COVID-19 after Senate hearing — airline
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Southwest Chief Executive Gary Kelly tested positive for COVID-19 after appearing at a U.S. Senate hearing on Wednesday, a spokesperson for the airline confir...
Dec 17, 2021
