Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) National News (Master Feed)
Factbox-Biden’s bipartisan infrastructure deal came with sacrifices
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden and top White House officials hailed a bipartisan, preliminary infrastructure agreement as proof that Washington - and even American democracy itself - could...
Jun 24, 2021
‘Stuttering John’ from Howard Stern show loses lawsuit against Sirius XM
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sirius XM Holdings Inc on Thursday won the dismissal of a lawsuit by John Melendez, known by his alter ego Stuttering John, claiming it illegally exploited his...
Jun 24, 2021
U.S. Democrats launch bill allowing existing nuclear plants tax credit
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Five Democrats in the U.S. Senate introduced a bill on Thursday that would allow some existing nuclear power plants to receive a tax credit equal to an incentive already given t...
Jun 24, 2021
U.S. House targets ‘predatory lenders’, votes to repeal Trump banking rule
By Katanga Johnson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives voted Thursday to repeal a contentious banking rule introduced during former President Donald Trump's administration that De...
Jun 24, 2021
Factbox-What’s in the U.S. Senate’s $1.2 trillion infrastructure plan?
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday embraced a bipartisan Senate deal https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-meet-with-bipartisan-senators-discuss-infrastructure-plan-2021-06-2...
Jun 24, 2021
Biden backers sue ‘Trump Train’ members, police over campaign bus incident
By Joseph Ax (Reuters) - Several people who were traveling last October on a campaign bus for Democratic President Joe Biden that was surrounded by supporters of Republican former President Donald Tru...
Jun 24, 2021
Election Day should be a ‘day off’ U.S. President Joe Biden says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Election Day should be a holiday for workers in the United States, President Joe Biden said Thursday. "If I had my way, and I think it is really important, every Election Day wo...
Jun 24, 2021
U.S. administers 320.7 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines – CDC
(Reuters) - The United States has administered 320,687,205 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Thursday morning and distributed 379,248,700 doses, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ...
Jun 24, 2021
A plurality of Americans would strike down Mississippi abortion ban
By Chris Kahn NEW YORK (Reuters) - A plurality of Americans believe that abortion should be legal up until the fetus is capable of living on its own, and they remain largely supportive of abortion rig...
Jun 24, 2021
U.S. Labor Board prosecutor hopes to bulk up staffing, budget as gig worker scrutiny grows
By Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top prosecutor at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the U.S. agency that investigates unfair labor practices, is pushing for a bigger budget and mor...
Jun 24, 2021
