Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) National News (Master Feed)
Biden renews focus on domestic issues with tour of New York area flood damage
By Nandita Bose and Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden will visit flood-damaged New Jersey and New York on Tuesday to survey the upheaval caused by Hurricane Ida, part of a renewed ...
Sep 07, 2021
Blinken to testify in U.S. Senate on Afghanistan on Sept. 14
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will testify to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in a hearing on Sept. 14 examining the country's withdrawal from Afghanistan, the co...
Sep 07, 2021
Biden to outline plan to curb coronavirus Delta variant as cases grow
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden on Thursday will present a six-pronged strategy aimed at fighting the spread of the highly contagious coronavirus Delta variant and increasing U.S. COVID-19 v...
Sep 07, 2021
California bill seeks to halt prison-to-ICE deportation pipeline
By Daniel Trotta SANTA ANA, Calif. (Reuters) - Leonel Sanchez thought he was about to go home to his family after serving three-and-a-half years for assault and other crimes in California, saying he f...
Sep 07, 2021
Sergeant Bee, immortalized in Afghanistan photo, reflects on war’s legacy
By Maurice Tamman JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (Reuters) - Today, on a leafy cul-de-sac in North Carolina, his hair is streaked with gray, and he wears his beard long. But on that day 13 years ago, as he sat tu...
Sep 07, 2021
U.S. Congress stuck between a rock and a hard place on raising debt limit
By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats and Republicans will start what could become a monumental game of chicken this month over raising the limit on U.S. government borrowing, as Congress ...
Sep 07, 2021
U.S. workplaces look to college fights as return to work ‘turning point’ looms
By Tom Hals (Reuters) - A legal battle is brewing over remote work between administrators at U.S. colleges committed to in-person classes and some faculty with disabilities. Experts warn it is a precu...
Sep 07, 2021
Alphonso David fired as Human Rights Campaign president for Cuomo advice -NYT
(Reuters) - Alphonso David, the president of the Human Rights Campaign, the largest LGBTQ advocacy organization the United States, was fired by the group's board on Monday, the New York Times reported...
Sep 06, 2021
Entergy says power restored to over half of customers who faced outage after Ida
(Reuters) - U.S. electric company Entergy Corp said power had been restored for more than half of its customers who faced an outage after Hurricane Ida. "Just eight days after being struck by one of t...
Sep 06, 2021
‘The Wire’ actor Michael K. Williams found dead in apartment -NY Post
By Tim Reid (Reuters) - Michael K. Williams, who played the character Omar Little in the TV series "The Wire," was found dead in his New York apartment on Monday, the New York Police Department said. ...
Sep 06, 2021
