Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) National News (Master Feed)
Yellen urges EU to back global tax deal, keep fiscal support
By David Lawder BRUSSELS (Reuters) -U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen urged European Union countries on Monday to sign on to a global deal to revamp corporate taxation, keep fiscal support through ...
Jul 12, 2021
‘Wither away and die:’ U.S. Pacific Northwest heat wave bakes wheat, fruit crops
By Julie Ingwersen CHICAGO (Reuters) - An unprecedented heat wave and ongoing drought in the U.S. Pacific Northwest is damaging white wheat coveted by Asian buyers and forcing fruit farm workers to ha...
Jul 12, 2021
U.S. $4.7 billion grant program’s tech woes take toll on justice groups
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Glitches in a new system used to manage the U.S. Justice Department's $4.7 billion grant program are causing delays in funding programs from victim services to...
Jul 12, 2021
On an Alaskan island, a mayor fights for fur seals – and a new future
By Matthew Green and Nathan Howard ST. GEORGE ISLAND, Alaska (Reuters) - Fifty years ago, Patrick Pletnikoff spent his summers stripping blubber from the carcasses of seals clubbed to death in Alaska'...
Jul 12, 2021
U.S. Senate braces for ‘hell of a fight’ over Biden’s infrastructure plan
By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate returns on Monday to one of its most ambitious agendas in years as Democratic President Joe Biden seeks trillions of dollars in infrastructure s...
Jul 12, 2021
Biden to meet with local leaders to rev up fight against gun violence
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden will meet with local law enforcement leaders, elected officials and an expert on community violence intervention at the White House on Monday as he seek...
Jul 12, 2021
Musk to testify in defense of Tesla’s $2.6 billion deal for SolarCity
By Tom Hals and Sierra Jackson WILMINGTON, Del. (Reuters) - Elon Musk is expected to take the stand on Monday to defend Tesla Inc's 2016 acquisition of SolarCity against a lawsuit by shareholders seek...
Jul 12, 2021
U.S. West scorches under heat wave, Death Valley reaches 130 degrees
By Bridget Bennett DEATH VALLEY, Calif. (Reuters) - A brutal heat wave punishing the U.S. West pushed temperatures toward all-time records for a third day on Sunday, as Death Valley in California, sco...
Jul 11, 2021
U.S. administers nearly 334.2 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines: CDC
(Reuters) - The United States had administered 334,151,648 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Saturday morning and distributed 387,006,120 doses, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ...
Jul 11, 2021
Pfizer, U.S. health officials to discuss COVID boosters on Monday -company
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - COVID-19 vaccine maker Pfizer Inc will meet with federal health officials as soon as Monday to discuss the need for a booster dose of the coronavirus vaccine as it prepares to s...
Jul 11, 2021
