Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) National News (Master Feed)
U.S. builds new software tool to predict actions that could draw China’s ire
By Mike Stone HONOLULU, Hawaii (Reuters) - U.S. military commanders in the Pacific have built a software tool to predict how the Chinese government will react to U.S. actions in the region like milita...
Dec 15, 2021
U.S. sends final poverty-busting monthly Child Tax Credit payment
By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury Department said it distributed more than $16 billion in expanded Child Tax Credit payments on Wednesday in the final month of a COVID-19 pilot ...
Dec 15, 2021
Biden nominates JFK’s daughter Caroline Kennedy to be ambassador to Australia
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday nominated Caroline Kennedy to be U.S. ambassador to Australia and Olympic figure skater Michelle Kwan as ambassador to Belize, the White H...
Dec 15, 2021
Biden taps two for U.S. CFTC -White House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Biden on Wednesday nominated Summer Mersinger and Caroline Pham to be members of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the White House said. Mersinger has ser...
Dec 15, 2021
Metropolitan Opera to require booster shots for audiences as COVID concerns grow
(Reuters) - The Metropolitan Opera in New York said on Wednesday it will require audiences and staff to show proof of a COVID booster shot starting in January amid growing concern over the Omicron var...
Dec 15, 2021
U.S. universities move final exams online as COVID-19 spreads anew
By Brendan O'Brien, Lisa Shumaker and Barbara Goldberg (Reuters) - A growing number of U.S. colleges and universities were moving final exams online and cancelling non-essential gatherings as the rapi...
Dec 15, 2021
Biden auto safety nominee vows to address jump in traffic deaths
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden's nominee to serve as the top auto safety regulator will vow to address the massive increase in U.S. road deaths, according to congressional testimony seen b...
Dec 15, 2021
New York criminal case against Huawei still far from trial
By Karen Freifeld (Reuters) - A three-year-old criminal case against the Chinese telecommunications equipment maker Huawei is still far from going to trial in New York, despite an agreement in the cas...
Dec 15, 2021
Black feminist writer and intellectual bell hooks dies at 69
(Reuters) - Black feminist intellectual bell hooks, whose pioneering work took on new urgency amid the racial justice protests that swept the United States in the wake of the police killings of George...
Dec 15, 2021
NFL-Las Vegas to host Super Bowl in 2024
(Reuters) - Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas will be the site of Super Bowl LVIII when the NFL's championship game comes to Sin City for the first time in 2024, the league announced on Wednesday. The st...
Dec 15, 2021
