Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) National News (Master Feed)
Drought-hit Panama Canal to increase shipping slots
(Reuters) - The Panama Canal on Friday said it will increase the number of booking slots available in its Panamax and Neopanamax locks, after a severe drought caused one of the world's main maritime t...
Dec 15, 2023
Judge says TikTok must turn meeting records over in state attorneys general probe
(Reuters) - A state judge on Friday ordered TikTok to comply with the North Carolina Attorney General's Office's request for records in a multistate investigation into whether the app put young people...
Dec 15, 2023
Giuliani ordered to pay $148 million to Georgia election workers in defamation trial
By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Rudy Giuliani must pay more than $148 million in damages to two former Georgia election workers he defamed through false accusations that they helped rig the ...
Dec 15, 2023
Trump appeals gag order in NY civil fraud case to state’s highest court
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Donald Trump on Friday appealed a gag order restricting the former U.S. president from publicly talking about court staff in his New York civil fraud trial to the state's highest ...
Dec 15, 2023
Exclusive-US FDA finds control lapses at Moderna manufacturing plant
By Patrick Wingrove (Reuters) - U.S. drug regulators in September found quality control lapses at Moderna's main factory including with equipment used to manufacture drug substance for its COVID-19 va...
Dec 15, 2023
Foreign-owned US farmland acres rose more than 8% in 2022 -USDA
By Leah Douglas (Reuters) - The number of U.S. farm acres owned by foreign entities grew more than 8% in 2022, though the 43.4 million acres of foreign-owned forest and farm land is just 3.4% of the c...
Dec 15, 2023
New York’s Met museum returns Southeast Asian artifacts tied to looting
(Reuters) - The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City said on Friday that it would return 14 sculptures to Cambodia and two to Thailand that were associated with an art dealer who was charged wi...
Dec 15, 2023
California’s only nuclear plant gets state approval for 5-year extension
(Reuters) - California's utilities regulator on Thursday granted a five-year extension to operate Pacific Gas and Electric's Diablo Canyon power plant, the state's only nuclear facility, to avoid elec...
Dec 15, 2023
Family of 11-year-old Mississippi boy shot by officer seeks damages, body camera release
(Reuters) - The family of an 11-year-old boy shot by a Mississippi police officer will keep pursuing a civil lawsuit and push for body-camera footage of the encounter to be publicly released, the fami...
Dec 15, 2023
Mother of 6-year-old who shot Virginia teacher sentenced on child neglect charge
By Rich McKay (Reuters) - A Virginia mother was sentenced to two years in prison on a state charge of felony child neglect after her 6-year-old son shot and wounded his teacher last January with a gun...
Dec 15, 2023
