Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) National News (Master Feed)
Biden to require all federal workers to be vaccinated -source
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden plans to require all federal employees and government contractors to get vaccinated against COVID-19, a source briefed on the matter ...
Sep 09, 2021
Michael Constantine, actor known for ‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding,’ dead at 94
By Patricia Reaney (Reuters) - Michael Constantine, the American actor who found countless uses for Windex as the patriarchal restaurant owner in the "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" films, has died at age ...
Sep 09, 2021
U.S. government lays out plans to curb Medicare drugs costs
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Biden administration on Thursday unveiled its promised drug pricing initiative, saying it would test new ways to pay for prescription drugs for Medicare recipients, includin...
Sep 09, 2021
U.S. weekly jobless claims near 18-month low
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of Americans filing new claims for jobless benefits fell last week to the lowest level in nearly 18 months, offering more evidence that job growth was being hindered ...
Sep 09, 2021
U.S. govt set to release plan to lower prescription drug prices – WSJ
(Reuters) - The Biden administration is set to unveil a plan that supports legislation to empower the U.S. federal government to negotiate drug prices in Medicare and pass along the benefits to the pr...
Sep 09, 2021
Sept. 11 attacks fuse photographer and survivor in trauma
By Maurice Tamman NEW YORK (Reuters) - At 9:59 a.m. on Sept. 11, 2001, the World Trade Center South Tower fell. About 15 minutes later, photographer Shannon Stapleton scrambled over debris, peering th...
Sep 09, 2021
Pennsylvania Republicans kick-start 2020 election review with hearing
By Nathan Layne (Reuters) - Republican lawmakers in Pennsylvania will kick off an "election integrity" investigation with a public hearing on Thursday, joining partisan efforts in other battleground s...
Sep 09, 2021
Explainer: Can Trump use executive privilege to block Jan. 6 attack probe?
By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. government agencies have a Thursday deadline to produce documents demanded by a congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, in...
Sep 09, 2021
Tree planting efforts aren’t replacing burned U.S. forests — not even close
By Adria Malcolm, Andrew Hay and Andrea Januta DEER LAKE MESA, N.M. (Reuters) - Experimental pine seedlings poke from the rocky New Mexico earth, the only living evergreens on a hillside torched by on...
Sep 09, 2021
Analysis-Investors betting on ‘stable’ choice of Powell renomination at Fed
By David Randall NEW YORK (Reuters) - A potential renomination of Jerome Powell at the helm of the U.S. Federal Reserve would provide a needed sense of stability as the central bank prepares to pull b...
Sep 09, 2021
