Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) National News (Master Feed)
US senator asks 23andMe for details after reported data for sale online
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top Republican on the U.S. Senate's health committee has called on the chief executive of 23andMe to provide the panel with details after data from the family genetics websi...
Oct 20, 2023
Hurricane Tammy crawls toward Caribbean’s Leeward Islands
KINGSTOWN (Reuters) - Hurricane Tammy is expected to hurl strong rains and winds across parts of the eastern Caribbean late Friday and through the weekend, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said in a...
Oct 20, 2023
Hamas releases two US hostages ‘for humanitarian reasons’ after Qatari efforts-spokesperson
CAIRO (Reuters) -Hamas' armed wing the Izz el-Deen al-Qassam Brigades has released two U.S. hostages - a mother and her daughter - "for humanitarian reasons" in response to Qatari mediation efforts, i...
Oct 20, 2023
Flaring incidents rise in the Permian due to Texas heatwave – Enverus
(Reuters) - Extreme heatwaves in Texas fueled a 22% rise in flaring incidents in the Permian shale basin in the 12 months ended September, analytics firm Enverus said in a note. Satellite data from th...
Oct 20, 2023
US Republican senators ask tech firms about content moderation in Israel-Hamas war
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Senate panel's Republican lawmakers sent a letter on Friday to tech companies Meta Platforms, Google, TikTok and X, formerly called Twitter, seeking inf...
Oct 20, 2023
Another Trump lawyer reaches plea deal with Georgia prosecutors
By Andrew Goudsward (Reuters) -A second lawyer who represented Donald Trump's 2020 presidential campaign, Kenneth Chesebro, pleaded guilty on Friday to illegal efforts to reverse the former U.S. presi...
Oct 20, 2023
Maryland judge killed outside his home; suspect was in divorce case
By Rich McKay (Reuters) - A Maryland judge was fatally shot in the driveway of his home, police said on Friday, triggering a manhunt for a suspect that authorities said was involved a divorce case tha...
Oct 20, 2023
Judge raises possibility of imprisonment for Trump for violating gag order -NBC News
(Reuters) -The judge presiding over Donald Trump's $250 million civil fraud trial in New York raised the possibility on Friday of putting the former president behind bars after Trump failed to comply ...
Oct 20, 2023
Factbox-What’s in Biden’s $106 billion supplemental funding request
(Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden wants Congress to provide $106 billion in supplemental funding, with the bulk of the money going to bolster Ukraine's defenses and the remainder split among Israel...
Oct 20, 2023
White House asks Congress for $106 billion for Ukraine, Israel
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The White House on Friday asked Congress for nearly $106 billion to fund ambitious plans for Ukraine, Israel and U.S. border security, but offered no strategy for securing the mo...
Oct 20, 2023
