Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) National News (Master Feed)
Senate Republican push to block Biden’s vaccine mandate secures Democratic support
By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Republicans were poised on Wednesday to try to up-end Democratic President Joe Biden's COVID-19 vaccine and test mandate for private businesses, in a...
Dec 08, 2021
U.S. House Jan.6 probe tells Meadows it has ‘no choice’ but to seek contempt charge
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack told Mark Meadows, who served as ex-President Donald Trump's chief of staff, that it h...
Dec 08, 2021
Fox News Christmas tree in New York City set ablaze, man arrested
(Reuters) - A man was arrested early on Wednesday on suspicion that he had set on fire a 50-foot-tall Christmas tree outside the Fox News headquarters in midtown Manhattan, the New York Police Departm...
Dec 08, 2021
Top U.S. diplomat Blinken to visit UK, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Britain for a Group of Seven ministers meeting before visiting Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand from Dec. 9-17, the State D...
Dec 08, 2021
Russia says both sides to follow up quickly on Putin-Biden call
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian and U.S. officials will urgently follow up Tuesday's two-hour call between presidents Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden on Ukraine with discussions on "this complex confrontation...
Dec 08, 2021
U.S. Supreme Court again tackles public funding for religious schools
By Andrew Chung (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday is set to hear a challenge by two Christian families to a Maine tuition assistance program that excludes private schools that promote re...
Dec 08, 2021
Opening statements begin in trial of Minnesota police officer who killed Daunte Wright
By Nathan Layne (Reuters) - A white Minnesota police officer who fatally shot an unarmed Black motorist in April, triggering protests against police brutality, will go on trial on Wednesday as opening...
Dec 08, 2021
Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial enters eighth day, testimony of fourth victim expected soon
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) - Ghislaine Maxwell's criminal trial entered its eighth day on Wednesday, after jurors heard testimony from three women who said they were teenagers when the British so...
Dec 08, 2021
Jury to hear final arguments in N.Y. opioid case against drugmakers
By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) - Jurors in a New York state court are expected to hear closing arguments Wednesday over whether drugmakers AbbVie Inc and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd fueled an opi...
Dec 08, 2021
Biden travels to Missouri to highlight U.S. infrastructure law
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden will travel to Kansas City, Missouri on Wednesday to draw attention to his $1 trillion program to invest in infrastructure. Biden will visit the Kansas ...
Dec 08, 2021
