Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) National News (Master Feed)
Man with knives arrested near Democratic HQ -U.S. Capitol Police
By Jan Wolfe (Reuters) - The U.S. Capitol Police arrested a California man with multiple knives in his truck marked with white supremacist symbols near the Democratic National Committee headquarters i...
Sep 13, 2021
U.S. government strengthens oversight of police-reform monitors
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department, in the midst of investigating policing practices in three major cities, will toughen oversight of federal monitors who supervise im...
Sep 13, 2021
Biden vaccine plan hinges on rarely used rule, inviting legal challenges
By Tom Hals and Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden's plan requiring more than 100 million Americans to get vaccinated against COVID-19 relies on a rarely used workplace rule with a h...
Sep 13, 2021
U.S. House Democrats seek corporate tax increase to 26.5 percent
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Leading Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives said on Monday that they are seeking to raise the nation's tax rate on corporations to 26.5 percent, up from the current 21...
Sep 13, 2021
Biden heads to western U.S. to tout climate goals, back California governor
By Jeff Mason and Steve Holland (Reuters) - President Joe Biden heads west on Monday for a three-state tour aimed at highlighting his push to fight climate change and strengthen infrastructure, while ...
Sep 13, 2021
Insurers may take hit of $20 billion-$30 billion from Hurricane Ida- report
(Reuters) - Insurers are bracing for claims of between $20 billion and $30 billion after assessing the damage from Hurricane Ida in many locations including New York and New Jersey, catastrophe risk m...
Sep 13, 2021
Explainer-How will Biden’s vaccine mandate impact workers, companies?
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden announced new mandates on Thursday to spur Americans who are not vaccinated against COVID-19 to get a shot. The measures apply to more than 100 million worke...
Sep 13, 2021
Biden vaccine mandate will test U.S. workplace regulator
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. agency in charge of the Biden administration's new rules requiring COVID-19 vaccination at many private workplaces faces internal and external chall...
Sep 13, 2021
Afghanistan blame game shifts to U.S. Congress as Blinken testifies
By Patricia Zengerle and Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State Antony Blinken will testify twice to Congress this week about the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, as lawmakers kick o...
Sep 13, 2021
Biden put rights at heart of U.S. foreign policy. Then he pulled punches
By Simon Lewis and Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hours after the last U.S. troops and diplomats were out of Afghanistan, President Joe Biden said in an address at the White House that Washingto...
Sep 13, 2021
