Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) National News (Master Feed)
Democrats scrap bank reporting requirement from U.S. spending package
By Pete Schroeder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. banks will not be required to report additional information about certain accounts to the Internal Revenue Service after Democrats removed the proposal fr...
Oct 28, 2021
U.S. Senate confirms Biden’s solicitor general pick Prelogar
By Nate Raymond (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Thursday confirmed Elizabeth Prelogar to serve as U.S. solicitor general, approving President Joe Biden's pick to be his chief advocate before the U.S. S...
Oct 28, 2021
U.S. administers 417.8 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines – CDC
(Reuters) - The United States has administered 417,795,537 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Thursday morning and distributed 510,735,525 doses, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ...
Oct 28, 2021
White House will keep working on prescription drug pricing after it falls out of spending bill
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) - White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said on Thursday that the administration will continue working on prescription drug pricing after it did not make it int...
Oct 28, 2021
Oklahoma can carry out executions of John Grant, Julius Jones, high court rules
(Reuters) -The Supreme Court of the United States on Thursday overturned a stay of execution for two condemned prisoners in Oklahoma, allowing the state to move forward with its first executions in si...
Oct 28, 2021
Citigroup to require all U.S. employees to be vaccinated
(Reuters) - Citigroup Inc said on Thursday it will require all U.S. employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 as a condition of their employment. The bank will comply with the Biden administration p...
Oct 28, 2021
Negotiating from the left, Pramila Jayapal now at the center of Joe Biden’s agenda
By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As Congress met in January 2017 to certify Donald Trump's presidential victory, a new lawmaker rose to object and was quickly gaveled to silence by Vice Preside...
Oct 28, 2021
American Airlines CEO says onboard violent incidents must stop
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - American Airlines Chief Executive Doug Parker on Thursday sounded the alarm about disruptive and violent incidents onboard U.S. airplanes after a flight attendant was physically...
Oct 28, 2021
Maduro ally Saab to plead not guilty to money laundering – lawyer
By Alexandra Ulmer and Luc Cohen (Reuters) -Alex Saab, a Colombian businessman who became a special envoy for Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, will plead not guilty to money laundering charges whe...
Oct 28, 2021
U.S. settles suit over 2015 massacre at historic South Carolina church
(Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday said it settled civil cases brought by survivors and families of victims of a massacre in which nine Black people were killed at a historic Sout...
Oct 28, 2021
