Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) National News (Master Feed)
U.S. Supreme Court weighs free-speech fight over Texas college censure
By Andrew Chung WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday appeared skeptical that a Texas community college violated the free speech rights of a former member of its board of trust...
Nov 02, 2021
Senate panel to weigh bills to strengthen U.S. government watchdogs
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Senate panel will consider legislation this week to boost the independence of government watchdogs after President Donald Trump while in office fired se...
Nov 02, 2021
U.S. seizes more than one ton of cocaine in biggest NY-area bust in a decade
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. law enforcement officials seized more than one ton of cocaine allegedly shipped to the New York area from Puerto Rico, the largest bust of the drug in the region...
Nov 02, 2021
U.S. to end duty-free access for Ethiopia, Mali, Guinea
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States plans to remove Ethiopia, Mali and Guinea from the agreement that gives them duty-free access to the United States, President Joe Biden said in a letter to Cong...
Nov 02, 2021
U.S. FAA proposes requiring balloon pilots to hold medical certificates
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Aviation Administration said Tuesday it was proposing requiring commercial hot-air-balloon pilots to hold medical certificates after a balloon crash in 2016 that was...
Nov 02, 2021
U.S. CDC advisers to vote on COVID-19 vaccine in young children
By Michael Erman (Reuters) - The United States could begin administering Pfizer and BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine to children ages 5 to 11 as soon as Wednesday after a panel of outside experts votes on ...
Nov 02, 2021
COVID-19 still rages, but some U.S. states reject federal funds to help
By Andy Sullivan (Reuters) - As the resurgent COVID-19 pandemic burns through the rural U.S. state of Idaho, health officials say they don't have enough tests to track the disease's spread or sufficie...
Nov 02, 2021
From Boeing to Mercedes, a U.S. worker rebellion swells over vaccine mandates
By Tina Bellon and Eric M. Johnson AUSTIN/SEATTLE (Reuters) - In Wichita, Kansas, nearly half of the roughly 10,000 employees at aircraft companies Textron Inc and Spirit AeroSystems remain unvaccinat...
Nov 02, 2021
Opening arguments set for trial of U.S. teen charged in fatal protest shootings
By Nathan Layne KENOSHA, Wis. (Reuters) - The prosecution and the defense will make opening arguments on Tuesday in the trial of a U.S. teenager charged with fatally shooting protesters in Wisconsin l...
Nov 02, 2021
Too-close-to-call Virginia governor’s race headlines U.S. elections
By Joseph Ax and Gabriella Borter (Reuters) - Virginia voters will elect their next governor on Tuesday in an unexpectedly close race that carries national implications for both Republicans and Democr...
Nov 02, 2021
