Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) National News (Master Feed)
New York City Council passes ban on solitary confinement in jails
By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York City Council voted on Wednesday to ban the use of solitary confinement in city jails, with sponsors of the bill arguing that the practice is cruel a...
Dec 20, 2023
Boston mayor apologizes to Black men wrongly linked to notorious 1989 murder
(Reuters) - Boston Mayor Michelle Wu on Wednesday issued a formal apology on behalf of the city to two Black men wrongly accused of the 1989 murder of a pregnant white woman, a high-profile case that ...
Dec 20, 2023
US Supreme Court to hear challenge to EPA’s ‘Good Neighbor’ air pollution plan
By Andrew Chung (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday said it would hear a bid to block the Environmental Protection Agency from enforcing a federal regulation aimed at reducing ozone emissi...
Dec 20, 2023
Explainer-Could Trump be president despite his legal troubles?
By Jack Queen (Reuters) - Donald Trump, the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, has been charged in four separate criminal cases, and could face his first trial as soon as Mar...
Dec 20, 2023
Trump urges US Supreme Court not to expedite 2020 immunity claim
By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reject a request by federal prosecutors to immediately review his claim that he cannot b...
Dec 20, 2023
US proposes more limits on making money off children’s data
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Big tech companies, like YouTube owner Alphabet among many others, would face further limits on how they use children's data to beef up profits under a proposal put out by the F...
Dec 20, 2023
Southwest Airlines’ new pilot contract provides for 50% pay raise over 5 years
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Pilots at Southwest Airlines will get about a 50% pay raise over a five-year period in their new contract, according to the details shared by their union on Wednesday. The Southwes...
Dec 20, 2023
Biden says ‘no question’ Trump backed insurrection
By Steve Holland and Nandita Bose MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - President Joe Biden said on Wednesday there was "no question" his predecessor Donald Trump supported an insurrection, but that it was up to the ...
Dec 20, 2023
US finds fewer cases of avian flu in wild birds, a good sign for poultry
By Tom Polansek CHICAGO (Reuters) - The U.S. is detecting fewer cases of avian flu in wild birds that transmit the virus to poultry flocks, the agriculture department said, a potentially positive deve...
Dec 20, 2023
US DOJ, consumer bureau sue Texas developer for predatory lending
(Reuters) - Federal prosecutors and the top U.S. agency for consumer financial protection are suing a Texas real estate developer they accused of targeting thousands of Hispanic borrowers in a fraudul...
Dec 20, 2023
