Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) National News (Master Feed)
White House moves to restore key environmental review rules
By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Wednesday took the first step to restore federal regulations guiding environmental reviews of major infrastructure projects like highways...
Oct 06, 2021
U.S. Senate Democrats plan debt-limit vote after Biden hints filibuster could go
By Andy Sullivan and Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Democrats are set to try again on Wednesday to extend the U.S. government's borrowing authority to head off a catastrophic default, af...
Oct 06, 2021
Explainer-What is the U.S. Senate filibuster and why is everyone talking about it?
By Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Faced with the risk of the U.S. federal government defaulting on its debt in the next two weeks, President Joe Biden on Tuesday for the first time said he was ...
Oct 06, 2021
Final arguments expected in 1st U.S. college admissions scandal trial
By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) - A federal jury in Boston is set to hear closing arguments on Wednesday in the trial of two wealthy fathers accused of paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to secu...
Oct 06, 2021
U.S. states push to surpass world emissions norms on aviation
By David Shepardson and Allison Lampert WASHINGTON/MONTREAL (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden's administration should exceed global standards designed to curb emissions from flights, as pressure mo...
Oct 06, 2021
Illinois toddler fights for his life as COVID transmission rages
By Sharon Bernstein (Reuters) - When her two-year-old started feeling sick early last week, Tiffany Jackson didn't think it might be COVID-19. No one else in the family was sick. Adrian James just had...
Oct 06, 2021
U.S. Congress Democrats target palm oil, beef trade in deforestation bill
By Richard Cowan and Fathin Ungku WASHINGTON/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Democrats in the U.S. Congress on Wednesday were set to unveil legislation to reduce illegal deforestation globally by restricting th...
Oct 06, 2021
California lawmakers aim to ban offshore drilling after spill
By Jessica Resnick-Ault and Daniel Trotta (Reuters) - Democratic members of Congress from California seized on the oil spill off the state's coast to promote federal legislation to ban all offshore oi...
Oct 06, 2021
Bayer wins its first Roundup jury verdict in case of child’s cancer
By Tom Hals (Reuters) - Bayer AG won its first trial over claims its Roundup weedkiller causes cancer after a California jury found that the herbicide was not a substantial cause of a child's rare for...
Oct 05, 2021
White House to tap business leaders to push Republicans on debt ceiling – source
By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House is asking business leaders to meet with President Joe Biden on Wednesday about the need to raise the U.S. debt ceiling, according to a person famil...
Oct 05, 2021
