Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) National News (Master Feed)
Factbox-Court fights could tip control of US House in 2024
By Joseph Ax (Reuters) - Legal battles over redistricting could lead to new congressional maps in nearly a dozen U.S. states for the 2024 election, potentially flipping control of the U.S. House of Re...
Nov 14, 2023
Global emissions set to fall only 2% by 2030 – UN report
By Gloria Dickie LONDON (Reuters) - Governments are making insufficient progress in slashing greenhouse gas emissions to avert the worst impacts of global warming, according to a United Nations report...
Nov 14, 2023
US Congress tries to overcome partisan logjam to avert government shutdown
By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson's plan to avert a government shutdown faces a key test on Tuesday, as he tries to overcome hardline opposition from his own Repub...
Nov 14, 2023
Iceland shields geothermal plant from risk of volcanic eruption
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Icelandic authorities were on Tuesday preparing to build defence walls around a geothermal power plant in the southwestern part of the country that they hope will protect it fro...
Nov 14, 2023
FBI struggled to disrupt dangerous casino hacking gang, cyber responders say
By Zeba Siddiqui, Christopher Bing and Raphael Satter SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has struggled to stop a hyper-aggressive cybercrime gang that'...
Nov 14, 2023
US climate assessment lays out growing threats, opportunities as temperatures rise
By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Climate change harms Americans physically, mentally and financially, often hitting those who have done the least to cause it, including Black people facing fl...
Nov 14, 2023
China emissions could go into ‘structural decline’ next year – research
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - China's greenhouse emissions could start going into "structural decline" as early as next year as power generation from fossil fuels starts to fall, analysis from the Helsinki-ba...
Nov 14, 2023
Tall trucks, SUVs are 45% deadlier to US pedestrians, study shows
By David Shepardson and Joseph White (Reuters) - Trucks and sport utility vehicles with hood heights greater than 40 inches are about 45% more likely to cause fatalities in pedestrian crashes than sho...
Nov 14, 2023
Facing State Dept dissent over Gaza, Blinken tells staff: We’re listening
By Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday moved to address rising criticism within the State Department ranks over the Biden administration's policy on t...
Nov 13, 2023
Environmental change threatens what’s left of Japan’s cormorant fishing legacy
By Kim Kyung-Hoon OZE, Japan (Reuters) - Please click here for photo essay: Cormorants have been a constant presence in Youichiro Adachi's life, and when he was young, he cried whenever one of his fam...
Nov 13, 2023
