Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) National News (Master Feed)
U.S. campaign to vaccinate young children off to sluggish start despite abundant supply
By Carl O'Donnell and Michael Erman (Reuters) - The United States rushed millions of COVID-19 vaccine doses for children ages 5 to 11 across the nation, but demand for inoculations for younger kids ha...
Dec 09, 2021
Walnuts for holiday baking languish as U.S. shipping crisis hurts farmers
By Sharon Bernstein and Nathan Frandino ESCALON, Calif. (Reuters) - The shrink-wrapped boxes of fresh California walnuts stacked almost to the ceiling in Don Barton's California packing facility shoul...
Dec 09, 2021
Former U.S. senator, presidential candidate Bob Dole to lie in state in Capitol
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. Senator Bob Dole, a three-time Republican presidential candidate and decorated World War Two veteran, will lie in state on Thursday in the rotunda of the Capitol whe...
Dec 09, 2021
Georgia Republicans purge Black Democrats from county election boards
By James Oliphant and Nathan Layne GRIFFIN, Georgia (Reuters) - Protesters filled the meeting room of the Spalding County Board of Elections in October, upset that the board had disallowed early votin...
Dec 09, 2021
Fourth Ghislaine Maxwell accuser expected to testify at sex abuse trial
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) - A fourth woman who said she was a teenager when Ghislaine Maxwell gave her an unsolicited massage and set her up for sex abuse by late financier Jeffrey Epstein is ex...
Dec 09, 2021
Deal to avert U.S. default, raise debt limit faces test in Senate
By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A deal between the top Democrat and Republican in the U.S. Senate to help raise the federal government's $28.9 trillion debt limit will be tested on Thursday wh...
Dec 09, 2021
U.S. senators announce bipartisan social media data transparency bill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three U.S. senators, two Democrats and a Republican, announced on Thursday a bill to require social media companies like Facebook, now known as Meta Platforms Inc, to give certa...
Dec 09, 2021
Biden ‘Summit for Democracy’ to rally nations against rising authoritarianism
By Simon Lewis and Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden will gather 111 world leaders in a virtual meeting dubbed the Summit for Democracy, in what Washington hopes will be a ...
Dec 08, 2021
North Carolina Supreme Court delays primary elections until May 2022
(Reuters) -The North Carolina Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered primary elections in the state delayed from March until May of 2022, citing legal challenges to gerrymandered political maps. The court...
Dec 08, 2021
U.S. Senate passes Republican bill to overturn Biden vaccine mandate
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Democratic-controlled U.S. Senate on Wednesday approved a Republican measure that would overturn President Joe Biden's COVID-19 vaccine or test mandate for private businesse...
Dec 08, 2021
