Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) National News (Master Feed)
From Shanksville’s scorched woods, two arborists emerged as unsung heroes of 9/11
By Jonathan Allen SHANKSVILLE, Pa. (Reuters) - The hemlock grove where United Airlines Flight 93 hurtled to the ground in rural Pennsylvania still haunts Mark Trautman and Ben Haupt 20 years later. Be...
Sep 08, 2021
Virginia to remove statue of Confederate hero Robert E. Lee on Wednesday
By Brendan O'Brien (Reuters) - A Virginia statue of Confederate Civil War General Robert E. Lee, a focus of protests over racial injustice, is scheduled to be removed on Wednesday after a year-long le...
Sep 08, 2021
Nobelist, senior Democratic economist Stiglitz says Fed’s Powell should go
By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) - For U.S. President Joe Biden to be true to his agenda he should not renominate Jerome Powell as Federal Reserve chair, Nobel prize-winning economist and long...
Sep 08, 2021
NASA rover Perseverance collects first Martian rock sample
By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - NASA's Mars science rover Perseverance has collected and stashed away the first of numerous mineral samples that the U.S. space agency hopes to retrieve from th...
Sep 07, 2021
Idaho activates healthcare rationing in northern parts of state due to COVID-19
By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) - Idaho on Tuesday activated "crisis standards of care" to allow for healthcare rationing at hospitals in northern parts of the state due to a surge in COVID-19 patients re...
Sep 07, 2021
Former U.S. Senator Adlai Stevenson III dies at 90 -New York Times
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. Senator Adlai Stevenson III, the namesake son and great-grandson of famous Illinois Democratic politicians, died at his Chicago home on Monday at age 90, the New Yor...
Sep 07, 2021
U.S. NHC says 50% chance of cyclone formation in Gulf of Mexico
(Reuters) - The U.S. National Hurricane Center on Tuesday said there was a 50% chance of a cyclone formation over the south-central Gulf of Mexico in the next 48 hours. "A tropical or subtropical depr...
Sep 07, 2021
Ethel Kennedy opposes parole for husband RFK’s assassin, Sirhan Sirhan
By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Robert F. Kennedy's widow, Ethel Kennedy, voiced opposition on Tuesday to a California review panel's recommendation that the man serving a life term for assass...
Sep 07, 2021
Britney Spears’ father asks court to end singer’s conservatorship – media reports
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Jamie Spears, the father of Britney Spears, has petitioned a Los Angeles court to end the pop singer's 13-year conservatorship, NBC News and CNN reported on Tuesday. Britney Spe...
Sep 07, 2021
Illinois House inches closer to saving two nuclear plants
By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Illinois House plans to consider an energy bill on Thursday, the House speaker said, that could prevent two Exelon Corp nuclear power plants from shutting...
Sep 07, 2021
