Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) National News (Master Feed)
Durst testifies at L.A. trial to chopping up one body, abandoning another
By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) - Real estate heir Robert Durst testified to chopping up the body of a Texas neighbor he killed in self-defense and to abandoning the body of his best friend after discoveri...
Aug 16, 2021
Bob Dylan sued for alleged sexual abuse of 12-year-old in 1960s
(Reuters) - An unnamed woman has sued folk singer-songwriter Bob Dylan alleging he sexually abused her after giving her drugs and alcohol in 1965 when she was 12 years old. A spokesman for Dylan, now ...
Aug 16, 2021
‘Is there any way we can get out?’ Afghans in U.S. struggle to help relatives in Kabul
By Alexandra Ulmer and Nathan Frandino SAN FRANCISCO/FREMONT, Calif. (Reuters) - As the Taliban took over Kabul on Sunday, Besmellah Khuram sat in his living room in Sacramento and video-called his fa...
Aug 16, 2021
Crews battling California’s mammoth Dixie fire brace for high winds
By Steve Gorman (Reuters) - Strike teams battling a mammoth wildfire displacing thousands of northern California residents braced for a resurgence of high winds on Monday, as the state's largest utili...
Aug 16, 2021
Factbox-Biden’s speech on Afghanistan: key quotes
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday stood by his decision to end the longest war in United States history and rejected criticism from both allies and adversaries that poor planni...
Aug 16, 2021
U.S. administers 357.29 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines – CDC
(Reuters) - The United States has administered 357,292,057 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Monday morning and distributed 415,958,305 doses, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Pr...
Aug 16, 2021
Biden administration appeals federal court decision to block oil, gas leasing pause
By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Biden administration on Monday challenged a federal judge's decision in June to block the Interior Department's pause on oil and gas leasing on public la...
Aug 16, 2021
U.S. State Department declines to say if Ghani still Afghan president
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. State Department on Monday declined to say if the United States still recognized Ashraf Ghani as the president of Afghanistan after he left the country on Sunday as insu...
Aug 16, 2021
U.S. appeals judge’s order reviving Trump ‘remain in Mexico’ program
By Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The administration of U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday appealed a federal judge's order to reinstate a controversial immigration program that forced tens of thou...
Aug 16, 2021
New Yorkers largely back mayor’s vaccine mandate to dine out
(Reuters) - New Yorkers interviewed by Reuters on Monday were largely backing the push by the city's mayor, Bill de Blasio, to require proof of COVID-19 vaccination to enter restaurants, gyms and othe...
Aug 16, 2021
