Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) National News (Master Feed)
U.S. Senator Manchin acknowledges having weighed leaving Democratic Party
(Note language in paragraph 2) By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Joe Manchin, a centrist and a stumbling block to Democratic President Joe Biden's ambitious social agenda, acknowledg...
Oct 21, 2021
U.S. appeals court rules against nursing homes over COVID-19 lawsuits
By Tom Hals (Reuters) - In a setback to nursing-home operators facing hundreds of COVID-19 negligence and wrongful-death lawsuits, a federal appeals court on Wednesday said cases against two New Jerse...
Oct 21, 2021
Texas taps Trump’s ex-counsel in vote-fraud case as top election official
By Julia Harte (Reuters) - Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Thursday announced he had appointed as the state's next top election official an attorney who represented former U.S. President Donald Trump in...
Oct 21, 2021
U.S. CDC advisers weigh Moderna, J&J COVID-19 vaccine boosters, mix-and-match shots
(Reuters) - A panel of advisers to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Thursday are considering several recommendations for rollout of COVID-19 vaccine boosters from Moderna I...
Oct 21, 2021
Biden, Democrats shred spending, tax plans to get a deal done
By Jarrett Renshaw (Reuters) - For months, U.S. President Joe Biden and Democrats touted a $3.5 trillion Build Back Better plan as a transformational piece of legislation that would reshape the world'...
Oct 21, 2021
Texas urges U.S. Supreme Court to maintain state’s abortion ban
By Andrew Chung (Reuters) - Texas on Thursday urged the U.S. Supreme Court to keep in place a state law that imposes a near-total ban on abortion while it defends the Republican-backed measure against...
Oct 21, 2021
Minnesota ex-officer resentenced to 57 months in prison for Australian woman’s shooting death
(Reuters) -A Minnesota judge on Thursday sentenced former Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor to 57 months in prison, the maximum penalty possible, for fatally shooting an Australian woman after s...
Oct 21, 2021
U.S. holds three tests to advance hypersonic weapon programs, Pentagon says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Navy and Army tested hypersonic weapon component prototypes on Wednesday, the Pentagon said, calling the three tests successful. (Reporting by Mike Stone in Washington,...
Oct 21, 2021
D.C. jail under civil rights review, Attorney General says
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday said the Justice Department is reviewing conditions at the local jail in Washington, D.C., after a federal ju...
Oct 21, 2021
Trump strikes SPAC deal for new social media platform, shares soar
(Reuters) - Shares of Digital World Acquisition Corp rose 80% on Thursday after the publicly listed shell company said it would merge with a business owned by former U.S. President Donald Trump to cre...
Oct 21, 2021
