Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) National News (Master Feed)
Theranos judge requires COVID shots for jurors, but will that skew the jury pool?
By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) - A U.S. judge this week dismissed from a jury pool nine people who were unvaccinated against COVID-19. He said his aim was to keep jurors and their families healthy but m...
Sep 02, 2021
Biden tells Energy Dept: use all tools to bring fuel to storm-hit areas
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden said on Thursday he has directed the Department of Energy to use all tools, including the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), to keep gasoline flowi...
Sep 02, 2021
Athletics-Boston Marathon runners must be vaccinated or provide negative COVID-19 test
(Reuters) - Runners in this year's Boston Marathon will need to provide proof of vaccination or produce a negative COVID-19 test in order to participate, race organisers said on Thursday. The Boston A...
Sep 02, 2021
U.S. House Speaker Pelosi pledges action on bill in response to Texas abortion law
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Democratic-controlled U.S. House of Representatives in coming weeks will debate and vote on legislation aimed at stopping states from enacting restrictive anti-abortion regul...
Sep 02, 2021
Biden calls top court ruling on Texas abortion ban ‘unprecedented assault’ on women’s rights
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden on Thursday said the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on Texas' abortion ban "is an unprecedented assault on a woman's constitutional rights," after the top court...
Sep 02, 2021
Noble says nine workers injured in drill ship damaged in Hurricane Ida
By Sabrina Valle and Marianna Parraga HOUSTON (Reuters) - Nine crew members of a Noble Corp. drill ship suffered minor injuries when Hurricane Ida hit the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday and damaged part of ...
Sep 02, 2021
Congress seeks information from FDA on approval of Biogen’s Alzheimer’s drug
(Reuters) - Two U.S. House committees have requested data and documents from the Food and Drug Administration related to the agency's accelerated approval of Biogen Inc's recently approved Alzheimer's...
Sep 02, 2021
Flooding snarls U.S. Northeast travel
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - United Airlines on Thursday suspended operations at New Jersey's Newark Liberty airport, while U.S. passenger railroad Amtrak canceled trains between Philade...
Sep 02, 2021
U.S. traffic deaths jump 10.5% in early 2021
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. traffic deaths rose by 10.5% in the first three months of 2021 even though the number of miles driven fell by 2.1%, preliminary data shows. Traffic deaths have risen dramat...
Sep 02, 2021
Sept. 11 victims’ families push U.S. watchdog to investigate FBI’s ‘lost’ evidence
By Jan Wolfe and Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Family members of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, airplane attacks asked a U.S. government watchdog on Thursday to investigate their suspicions th...
Sep 02, 2021
