Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) National News (Master Feed)
Trump lawyer Parlatore exits legal team amid US special counsel probes
By Jacqueline Thomsen WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Tim Parlatore, an attorney who has represented Donald Trump in a pair of U.S. Justice Department investigations led by Special Counsel Jack Smith, said on ...
May 17, 2023
Spanish mountaineer, 84, injured just short of goal to become world’s oldest climber
KATHMANDU/MADRID (Reuters) - An 84-year-old Spanish mountaineer injured his leg on Wednesday as he tried to reach the summit of Nepal's Dhaulagiri, one of the two "8,000ers" he had left to climb to cl...
May 17, 2023
House Democrats filing ‘discharge petition’ on debt limit in case needed, Jeffries says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House Democrats will file a so-called discharge petition on Wednesday as a means to raise the nation's debt limit in case it comes necessary, U.S. House Democratic Leader H...
May 17, 2023
U.S. House Speaker McCarthy says he thinks U.S. will not default
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Wednesday said he believed the United States will not default on its debt now that congressional leaders and President Joe Biden's administration ...
May 17, 2023
Biden to continue debt talks later this week amid G7, White House says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden will continue to hold talks with congressional leaders on the nation's debt limit later this week and will meet with them again after the G7 summit, a Wh...
May 17, 2023
Trump is attacking DeSantis hard on policy, amid the flurry of insults
By Tim Reid and Nathan Layne (Reuters) - Amid the headline-grabbing insults and name-calling, Donald Trump is pursuing a surprisingly policy-heavy strategy to damage his closest Republican rival Ron D...
May 17, 2023
Explainer-Abortion pill case goes before conservative appeals court; What’s next?
By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) - The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans on Wednesday will hear the Biden administration's bid to overturn a Texas judge's order that, if allowed to take eff...
May 17, 2023
Man convicted of New York bike path attack to be formally sentenced to life
By Luc Cohen and Brendan O'Brien NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. judge is set on Wednesday to formally mete out a life sentence to the Uzbek man convicted of killing eight people and injuring dozens more ...
May 17, 2023
US appeals court to weigh fate of abortion pill
By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) - A federal appeals court in New Orleans will hear arguments on Wednesday in a closely watched case brought by anti-abortion activists seeking to ban the abortion pill mif...
May 17, 2023
Factbox-The judges who will decide the appeal over the abortion pill
By Brendan Pierson and Jacqueline Thomsen (Reuters) - All three of the judges on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel that will hear the Biden administration's appeal to keep the abortion pill ...
May 17, 2023
