Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) National News (Master Feed)
McConnell urges Biden to pressure Democrats over infrastructure plan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Monday called on President Joe Biden to get the two top Democrats in Congress to abandon a plan to link a new $1.2 trillion bipart...
Jun 28, 2021
Separated from her daughters in U.S., Honduran mom parents from her smartphone
By Laura Gottesdiener, Kristina Cooke and Ted Hesson SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras (Reuters) - Maria's day begins at 7 a.m., when she rouses her daughters for elementary school, and does not finish until l...
Jun 28, 2021
Shooter who killed 2 Black people in Massachusetts was white supremacist, police say
(Reuters) - A man who rammed a truck into an empty house in Massachusetts, then singled out two Black people from a crowd of bystanders and shot them dead, was a white supremacist who had written that...
Jun 28, 2021
U.N. rights chief calls for “systemic racism” to be dismantled
By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - Racism against people of African descent remains systemic in many parts of the world, the U.N. human rights chief said on Monday, calling for states to dismantl...
Jun 28, 2021
Florida town official said building was safe despite warning – media
(Reuters) - A month after an engineering report warned of "major structural damage" that required prompt repair in 2018, a Surfside, Florida, official assured residents of Champlain Towers South that ...
Jun 28, 2021
Intense heat wave blisters U.S. Northwest with record temperatures
By Sergio Olmos PORTLAND, Ore. (Reuters) - Temperatures soared on Sunday to an all-time high of 112 degrees Fahrenheit in Oregon's largest city as a record heat wave blistered the Pacific Northwest, s...
Jun 27, 2021
Three dead, three hospitalized after train hits minivan in Chicago
(Reuters) - Three people, including a five-year-old child, were killed and three others hospitalized after a train hit a minivan in East Chicago over the weekend, officials said on Sunday. The 2005 Ho...
Jun 27, 2021
NY prosecutors give Trump Organization Monday deadline for final arguments: report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New York prosecutors have told lawyers for former U.S. President Donald Trump they must respond by Monday with any last arguments as to why criminal charges shouldn't be filed a...
Jun 27, 2021
Therapy dogs comfort families of the missing in Miami building collapse
SURFSIDE, Fla. (Reuters) - Some families of the missing at the Miami-area building collapse have found comfort in therapy dogs brought in during the agonizing wait for news. With some 150 people unacc...
Jun 27, 2021
Athletics-Extreme heat delays U.S. trials
EUGENE, Oregon (Reuters) - Competition at the U.S. Olympic trials in Eugene, Oregon, was suspended on Sunday after temperatures topped 107 degrees Fahrenheit (42 Celsius), officials said. Events on th...
Jun 27, 2021
