Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) National News (Master Feed)
Texas power use hits record high as heatwave lingers
(Reuters) - Demand for power in Texas hit a record high on Monday as homes and businesses kept air conditioners cranked up to escape a heatwave. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), whic...
Jul 17, 2023
Trump’s bid to block Georgia election probe rejected by state’s top court
By Joseph Ax (Reuters) - Georgia's top court on Monday rejected former President Donald Trump's latest effort to block an investigation into whether he and his allies illegally sought to interfere wit...
Jul 17, 2023
Republican 2024 hopeful Hutchinson: Trump undermining trust in rule of law
By Nathan Layne (Reuters) - Former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson, a Republican running for U.S. president, said on Monday that Donald Trump has "done great harm" to trust in federal law enforcement...
Jul 17, 2023
Minneapolis police agree to court-enforced reforms 3 years after George Floyd protests
By Rachel Nostrant (Reuters) - Three years after the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis and a month after federal investigators found widespread racial discrimination by city law enforcemen...
Jul 17, 2023
White House blasts RFK Jr for ‘antisemitic conspiracy theories’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden's chief spokesperson sharply criticized Democratic presidential opponent Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for alleging in a recently released video that COVID-19 w...
Jul 17, 2023
US probes United flight that lost evacuation slide before landing in Chicago
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Aviation Administration said it was investigating a United Airlines Boeing 767-300 flight that lost an emergency evacuation slide on Monday shortly before landing sa...
Jul 17, 2023
Exclusive-Head of engineering for Trump’s Truth Social app resigns
By Helen Coster NEW YORK (Reuters) - The head of engineering for the company that operates former U.S. President Donald Trump's Truth Social app told Reuters on Monday he had resigned, in a blow for t...
Jul 17, 2023
Restrictive abortion laws hurting morale, retention in US military – White House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Restrictive abortion laws in states like Alabama are having a morale and retention impact on the U.S. military, White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said o...
Jul 17, 2023
Angelo Mozilo, Countrywide Financial’s former CEO, dies at 84 – Bloomberg News
(Reuters) - Angelo Mozilo, who propelled Countrywide Financial Corp to become the largest U.S. mortgage lender during the housing boom only to see the company crash in the 2008 financial crisis, has d...
Jul 17, 2023
Biden administration amps up pressure on US Senate over nomination delays
By Patricia Zengerle and Simon Lewis WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Monday that a Senate delay in confirming President Joe Biden's nominees for diplomatic positi...
Jul 17, 2023
