Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) National News (Master Feed)
U.S. weekly jobless claims rise modestly; layoffs increase in May
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits increased modestly last week, suggesting the labor market remains tight despite growing fears of a recession ...
Jun 01, 2023
More Oath Keepers convicted of sedition in US Capitol attack face sentencing
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two more members of the far-right Oath Keepers militant group are set to be sentenced on Thursday for seditious conspiracy and other crimes arising from the Ja...
Jun 01, 2023
Digital doubles, fake trailers: AI worries Hollywood actors before labor talks
By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A search for Wes Anderson on YouTube turns up trailers that the famed director with a distinctive style appears to have made for adaptations of "Star Wars," "H...
Jun 01, 2023
Analysis-US debt-ceiling deal dooms Biden’s revolutionary tax plans
By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden's 2020 campaign promise to make wealthy Americans and corporations pay more in taxes to finance a range of social priorities breathed it...
Jun 01, 2023
‘California is meant to burn’: Experts teach landowners art of prescribed burns
By Nathan Frandino GEORGETOWN, California (Reuters) - The prescribed burn begins on a California hill with a drip torch to light brush, needles and fallen branches, the flames spreading out on the for...
Jun 01, 2023
US Senate aims for quick passage of debt ceiling bill to avoid default
By Richard Cowan and David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Thursday was set to take up a bill to lift the government's $31.4 trillion debt ceiling, with just four days left to pass th...
Jun 01, 2023
McCarthy’s moment: Debt ceiling win secures Republican US House speaker’s standing
By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Kevin McCarthy earned his stripes as Republican speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday, navigating fierce hardline opposition to pass a debt c...
May 31, 2023
US House votes to suspend debt ceiling and avoid default
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A majority of the U.S. House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to approve a bipartisan bill to suspend the government's $31.4 trillion debt ceiling, just five days before th...
May 31, 2023
Republican DeSantis strives for personal touch on 2024 kick-off tour
By James Oliphant COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (Reuters) - For Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, campaigning for president in Iowa meant coming to a place like the Grass Wagon, a no-frills, dimly lit reception h...
May 31, 2023
‘That 70s Show’ actor Danny Masterson convicted on two rape counts
(Reuters) - "That '70s Show" actor Danny Masterson was convicted on Wednesday of raping two women at his Hollywood Hills home. A jury deadlocked on another charge that Masterson raped a third woman be...
May 31, 2023
