Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) National News (Master Feed)
U.S. House Democrats propose $547 billion surface transport plan
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A group of key U.S. House Democrats were to introduce legislation on Friday to authorize $547 billion in additional spending over five years on surface trans...
Jun 04, 2021
Hipgnosis buys catalogue of Taylor Swift songwriter Joel Little
LONDON (Reuters) - Hipgnosis Songs Fund said on Friday it had bought the music catalogue of Taylor Swift songwriter Joel Little, the latest purchase amid a surge in streaming during the pandemic. Litt...
Jun 04, 2021
Chicago to reopen fully on June 11, mayor says
(Reuters) - Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said on Thursday that she has moved up the city's timetable for a full reopening from coronavirus restrictions to match the rest of the state of Illinois. Ligh...
Jun 04, 2021
U.S. government finds no evidence aerial sightings were alien spacecraft – NYT
(Reuters) - U.S. intelligence officials have found no evidence that a series of unidentified aerial phenomena observed by Navy aviators in recent years were alien spacecraft, but the sightings remain ...
Jun 03, 2021
Landlord group urges U.S. Supreme Court to lift CDC eviction freeze
By Jan Wolfe and Michelle Conlin WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A group of landlords on Thursday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to issue an order that would effectively end the federal government's national ban...
Jun 03, 2021
Sheriff’s deputies in Minneapolis fatally shoot murder suspect -local media
(Reuters) - Sheriff's deputies in Minneapolis shot and killed a man wanted for murder on Thursday afternoon in a parking lot, an incident that drew a small protest nearby, the Minneapolis Star Tribune...
Jun 03, 2021
Attack on U.S. Capitol caused $1.5 million in damage, prosecutors say
By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors on Wednesday said the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol caused $1.5 million in damages and indicated that individuals accused of particip...
Jun 03, 2021
F. Lee Bailey, lawyer at O.J. Simpson ‘trial of the century,’ dies at 87 -Boston Globe
(Reuters) -F. Lee Bailey, the flamboyant defense attorney perhaps best known as part of the team of lawyers that defended O.J. Simpson against murder charges in the "trial of the century," has died, t...
Jun 03, 2021
U.S. administers 297.7 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines – CDC
(Reuters) - The United States had administered 297,720,928 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country and distributed 368,375,195 doses as of Thursday morning, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ...
Jun 03, 2021
U.S. appeals court rules Trump policy improperly denied protection to walruses
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - A U.S. federal appeals court ruled on Thursday that the Trump administration improperly denied federal wildlife protections to Pacific walruses, animals reliant on dwindl...
Jun 03, 2021
