Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) National News (Master Feed)
U.S. seeks to dismiss charges in visa fraud cases of Chinese researchers
(Reuters) - The U.S. government on Friday filed motions in federal courts to dismiss charges in the remaining four cases of Chinese researchers arrested on visa fraud charges last year. A federal judg...
Jul 23, 2021
Exclusive-Democrats may scrap matching funds from infrastructure bill over wage issue
By Jarrett Renshaw and Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Democrats are threatening to scrap plans to create an infrastructure bank in the $1.2 trillion bipartisan spending bill after Republicans op...
Jul 23, 2021
Florida asks Supreme Court to lift CDC coronavirus cruise ship order
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The state of Florida on Friday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to allow a lower-court decision to take effect that said the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) co...
Jul 23, 2021
Pentagon says report that U.S. approved Chinese drone for purchase ‘inaccurate’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Pentagon said on Friday that drones produced by Chinese manufacturer Da Jiang Innovations (DJI) pose a potential threat to national security and that a media report that they...
Jul 23, 2021
COVID-19 outbreak at Oregon’s Bootleg blaze sidelines 9 firefighters
By Barbara Goldberg (Reuters) - The first COVID-19 outbreak among firefighters battling the enormous Bootleg fire in Oregon has put nine of them in quarantine as weather forecasters on Friday warned t...
Jul 23, 2021
Prosecutors agree to allow Trump ally Barrack free pending trial
By Jan Wolfe (Reuters) -Former U.S. President Donald Trump's billionaire ally Thomas Barrack has reached a deal with prosecutors that will allow for his release from custody while he awaits trial on c...
Jul 23, 2021
Celebrity chef Mario Batali agrees to $600,000 settlement over sexual harassment
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Celebrity chef Mario Batali and his business partner have agreed to pay $600,000 to at least 20 former employees after an investigation found their Manhattan restaurants were rife...
Jul 23, 2021
U.S. appeals court finds CDC eviction moratorium unlawful
(Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court ruled on Friday that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lacked authority for the national moratorium it imposed last year on most residential evictions to ...
Jul 23, 2021
Guilty pleas for men who took photos at Pelosi’s office on Jan. 6
By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two Ohio men face up to six months in prison after pleading guilty on Friday to disorderly conduct during the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, where one photog...
Jul 23, 2021
Iraq war Marine walks U.S.-Mexico border to protest deportation of veterans
By Jose Luis Gonzalez EL PASO (Reuters) - When U.S. military veteran Ramon Castro began meeting deported veterans living along the U.S.-Mexican border not far from his home in Southern California, he ...
Jul 23, 2021
