Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) National News (Master Feed)
Biden to urge Congress to lower prescription drug costs
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday will call on U.S. lawmakers to enact legislation aimed at lowering drug prices, including allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices and imp...
Aug 12, 2021
U.S. to release census data used for legislative redistricting
By Joseph Ax (Reuters) - The U.S. Census Bureau will release data on Thursday from the 2020 census that states will use to draw congressional and state legislative districts for the next decade, marki...
Aug 12, 2021
California wildfire wreaks more destruction as temperatures rise
By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - An enormous wildfire raging across Northern California for nearly a month has burned down another 550 homes, fire officials said on Wednesday, becoming one of t...
Aug 11, 2021
U.S. administers 353.2 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines – CDC
(Reuters) - The United States has administered 353,205,544 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Wednesday morning and distributed 409,566,315 doses, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and...
Aug 11, 2021
U.S. FDA set to authorize COVID-19 vaccine boosters for immunocompromised patients – NBC News
(Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is expected to authorize a third booster dose of COVID-19 vaccines by Pfizer Inc and Moderna Inc for people with weakened immune systems, NBC News rep...
Aug 11, 2021
Trump allies including Giuliani lose bid to dismiss Dominion vote machine lawsuits
(Corrects name to U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols instead of U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden, paragraph 2) By Jan Wolfe and David Thomas (Reuters) -Three prominent allies of former U.S. President...
Aug 11, 2021
First person linked to ‘Three Percenters’ to plead guilty in U.S. Capitol riot
By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A New Jersey woman on Monday became the first person associated with the "Three Percenters" militia to agree to plead guilty to a charge related to the Jan. 6 ...
Aug 11, 2021
White House ‘frustrated’ by slow pace of Senate confirmations of nominees
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House is frustrated by the U.S. Senate's slow pace in confirming the nominations of people to serve in key roles in the Biden administration and as envoys overseas, pr...
Aug 11, 2021
U.S. Senate to try again to pass voting rights in September, Schumer says
By Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Democratic-controlled U.S. Senate will make another attempt to pass a bill promoting voting rights next month, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said on Wednes...
Aug 11, 2021
Top horse racing trainer pleads guilty in New York in global doping scheme
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - A prominent horse racing trainer pleaded guilty on Wednesday to involvement in what U.S. prosecutors have called a global scheme to systematically drug horses ...
Aug 11, 2021
