Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) National News (Master Feed)
Heat wave sweeps Pacific Northwest, U.S. Southeast
(Reuters) - More than 60 million Americans across the Pacific Northwest and the U.S. Southeast were under a heat advisory on Friday, facing temperatures well into the 100s and near-record high tempera...
Jul 30, 2021
Trump urged Justice Dept. to overturn vote results, documents show
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Then President Donald Trump pressured top U.S. Justice Department officials in December to overturn his election defeat, threatening to oust them if they did no...
Jul 30, 2021
Philadelphia officials signal plan to reject election audit request
(Reuters) - Philadelphia officials are planning to reject a Republican lawmaker's request for access to the city's voting machines as part of a "forensic investigation" into the 2020 election, accordi...
Jul 30, 2021
U.S. Senate to vote to open debate on $1 trillion infrastructure bill
By David Morgan and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate was poised on Friday to vote to begin debate on a $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill that is one of Democratic Presiden...
Jul 30, 2021
U.S. House to take up residential eviction moratorium extension
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives will take up a measure on Friday to extend a COVID-19 eviction moratorium through Dec. 31 that is set to expire Saturday as...
Jul 30, 2021
U.S. CDC internal report calls Delta variant as contagious as chickenpox – NYT
(Reuters) - The Delta variant is much more contagious, more likely to break through protections afforded by the vaccines and may cause more severe disease than all other known versions of the virus, a...
Jul 30, 2021
Former U.S. Senator Carl Levin, Democrat of Michigan, dead at 87
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. Senator Carl Levin of Michigan, a long-serving Democratic leader on national security issues who strenuously opposed the Iraq War and investigated U.S. detainee abus...
Jul 29, 2021
Two tornadoes touch down in Pennsylvania, several hurt
(Reuters) -Two tornadoes touched down in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, on Thursday, collapsing the roof of a car dealership and injuring several people, a county spokesman said. One of the twisters hit ...
Jul 29, 2021
U.S. Navy sailor charged in fire aboard USS Bonhomme Richard
By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A U.S. Navy sailor was charged on Thursday with starting a fire last year that burned for four days on the amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard, injurin...
Jul 29, 2021
Biden calls for big budget bill to include immigration
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden, who has called for providing a pathway to citizenship for so-called Dreamer immigrants, said on Thursday that a big budget bill being written by Democra...
Jul 29, 2021
