Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) National News (Master Feed)
Biden to nominate surgeon, author Atul Gawande to senior job at USAID
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden will nominate writer, surgeon and public health expert Atul Gawande to a senior global health role at the U.S. Agency for International Development, a Wh...
Jul 13, 2021
Biden to nominate House aide Trumka to serve on consumer safety commission -source
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden plans to nominate a House aide who has worked extensively on oversight and consumer issues to the Consumer Product Safety Commission...
Jul 13, 2021
California to compensate people forcibly sterilized under eugenics
By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) - California has agreed to pay reparations to those who were forcibly sterilized under old laws aimed at people deemed unfit to have children. The legislation, years in the ...
Jul 13, 2021
U.S. calls for prosecutions over anti-LGBT violence in republic of Georgia
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The State Department on Tuesday called for calm in the republic of Georgia after the death of a cameraman beaten up during violence against LGBT activists and said those who atta...
Jul 13, 2021
Sacha Baron Cohen, Showtime win dismissal of Roy Moore defamation lawsuit
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -Sacha Baron Cohen on Tuesday won the dismissal of a $95 million defamation lawsuit by Roy Moore, a former U.S. Senate candidate from Alabama, who claimed he was...
Jul 13, 2021
White House teams with pop star Rodrigo to push vaccinations for young people
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Singer and actress Olivia Rodrigo will visit President Joe Biden and infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci at the White House on Wednesday to record videos encouraging you...
Jul 13, 2021
Chicago banker convicted of bribing Paul Manafort
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal jury in Manhattan convicted the former chief of a Chicago bank on charges he approved millions of dollars of risky loans to Paul Manafort, former campaign manager for Pr...
Jul 13, 2021
Searchers find another Florida condo collapse victim, raising toll to 95
(Reuters) - Searchers at a partially collapsed condominium near Miami found another victim, raising the number of confirmed deaths to 95 on Tuesday as heavy rain and the gruesome challenge of identify...
Jul 13, 2021
Abortion rights advocates sue Texas over 6-week abortion ban
(Adds dropped word in paragraph 11) By Gabriella Borter (Reuters) - Several abortion rights groups filed a federal lawsuit in Texas on Tuesday seeking to block a new state law banning abortion after s...
Jul 13, 2021
Harris applauds Texas Democrats who left the state to fight voting restrictions
By Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris said on Tuesday the Democratic lawmakers from Texas who left the state to derail Republican efforts to pass new voting restrict...
Jul 13, 2021
