Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) National News (Master Feed)
Democrats counter Republican-led voter restrictions with early, aggressive outreach
By Andrew Chung DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - David Harris did not need an explanation when the two canvassers on his driveway asked him and his wife Jamie if they had heard about the new voting restri...
Aug 31, 2021
Analysis: U.S. liberals see dwindling legal options to challenge voting curbs
By Andrew Chung and Lawrence Hurley (Reuters) - During the bitter legal battles over the 2020 presidential election, conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices signaled an embrace of a once-marginal leg...
Aug 31, 2021
Farmworker found guilty of murdering Iowa student is sentenced to life in prison
By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) - A Mexican farmworker found guilty in May of murdering an Iowa college student three years ago, was sentenced on Monday to life in prison without parole. The case was seiz...
Aug 30, 2021
About 1.6 million more Americans had health insurance in 2020 – CDC
(Reuters) - About 1.6 million more Americans had some form of health insurance coverage despite the COVID-19 crisis last year, helped mainly by enrollment growth in government-sponsored health plans, ...
Aug 30, 2021
Florida withholds funds from two school districts over mask mandates
By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) - The Florida Department of Education said on Monday it has withheld funds from two school districts that made masks mandatory in classrooms this fall. "Commissioner of Edu...
Aug 30, 2021
‘I need help’: Louisiana man rides out Storm Ida in destroyed home
By Adrees Latif HOUMA, La. (Reuters) - "Right now, I've got nothing." Sitting on his front porch, 70-year-old Theophilus Charles was still visibly in shock as he described Sunday night when Ida, one o...
Aug 30, 2021
Fate of California students in Afghanistan uncertain as U.S. airlift ends
By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Six Afghan refugee families who had resettled in California only to end up stranded in their homeland during a summer visit that coincided with the U.S. troop w...
Aug 30, 2021
U.S. judge vacates Trump water rule on environmental grounds
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. court on Monday vacated the Trump administration's scaled back clean water rule that had limited the number of waterways that could be federally regulated because leaving...
Aug 30, 2021
Americans give Biden low marks on Afghanistan pullout, want to see evacuations through
By Chris Kahn and James Oliphant NEW YORK (Reuters) - Less than 40% of Americans approve of President Joe Biden's handling of the U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan, and three quarters wanted U...
Aug 30, 2021
Last U.S. forces leave Afghanistan after almost 20 years
By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States on Monday said it had completed the withdrawal of its forces from Afghanistan in a chaotic airlift nearly 20 years after it invad...
Aug 30, 2021
