Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) National News (Master Feed)
White House says federal law enforcement talking to local officials about smash and grab robberies
By Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Biden administration has been in contact with federal law enforcement officials over a string of flash mob "smash and grab" robberies of U.S. retail stor...
Dec 03, 2021
U.S. government opens civil rights probe into police in New York suburb
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Justice Department has launched a civil rights inquiry into police practices in yet another U.S. city, investigating possible systemic abuses in the New Yo...
Dec 03, 2021
National Guard chief test positive for COVID-19
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of the National Guard Bureau is isolating after returning a positive COVID-19 test, a spokesman said on Friday. "General Dan Hokanson is working remotely and isolating ...
Dec 03, 2021
Blinken says Biden to tell Putin U.S. will stand up against aggressive actions
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden will tell Russian President Vladimir Putin in their meeting that the United States is determined to stand resolutely against any reckless or aggressive ...
Dec 03, 2021
Trump urges U.S. appeals court to end rape accuser’s lawsuit
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A lawyer for former President Donald Trump on Friday urged a U.S. appeals court to find her client immune from author E. Jean Carroll's defamation lawsuit arising from a decades-o...
Dec 03, 2021
Six Omicron cases reported in Nebraska, marking sixth U.S. state with variant
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Six cases of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 have been found in Nebraska, the state's health department said on Friday, marking the sixth U.S. state with confirmed cases. One ca...
Dec 03, 2021
Key moments from the first week of Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex abuse trial
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) - Ghislaine Maxwell's sex abuse trial in Manhattan federal court began this week. Prosecutors have accused the British socialite of grooming teenage girls for abuse by ...
Dec 03, 2021
Omicron detected in 40 countries but Delta remains dominant in U.S. -CDC director
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is working with local authorities to investigate suspect cases of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 in states other than those ...
Dec 03, 2021
Exclusive-U.S. State Department phones hacked with Israeli company spyware – sources
By Christopher Bing and Joseph Menn WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc iPhones of at least nine U.S. State Department employees were hacked by an unknown assailant using sophisticated spyw...
Dec 03, 2021
More travel restrictions are currently not needed -Biden
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden said on Friday he will continue to rely on scientists to assess whether a change in travel restrictions is necessary, adding that right now no change is...
Dec 03, 2021
