Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) National News (Master Feed)
DeSantis defunds diversity programs at Florida public colleges
By Rich McKay (Reuters) - Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill on Monday banning tax dollars from being used in state colleges for diversity, equity and inclusion programs (DEI) in a sweeping m...
May 15, 2023
Two staffers in U.S. House Democrat’s Virginia office attacked with baseball bat
By Moira Warburton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A person wielding a baseball bat attacked two staff members in Democratic U.S. Representative Gerry Connolly's district office in northern Virginia on Monday,...
May 15, 2023
U.S. warns against crossing Mexico border illegally as Title 42 ends
By Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. officials on Monday said there will be "tougher consequences" for migrants illegally crossing the Mexico border as U.S. President Joe Biden transitions away f...
May 15, 2023
US charges ex-Army employee at South Korean facility with bribery, fraud
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former civilian employee at a U.S. Army facility in South Korea has been arrested on charges of receiving $400,000 in kickbacks from military contractors, federal prosecutors in...
May 15, 2023
US Treasury’s Adeyemo dismisses platinum coin to skirt debt ceiling
By David Lawder and Susan Heavey WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary on Monday dismissed the idea of minting a platinum coin as a way to avoid a U.S. default, saying the only wor...
May 15, 2023
Biden taps Bertagnolli to lead National Institutes of Health
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden will appoint Monica Bertagnolli, director of the National Cancer Institute, to lead the National Institutes of Health, the White House said on Monday. B...
May 15, 2023
U.S. Supreme Court allows death row inmate’s lawsuit after failed execution
By Andrew Chung (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday allowed a challenge by an Alabama death row inmate who sued months before surviving a botched execution claiming that the state's troubled l...
May 15, 2023
U.S. Supreme Court to hear dispute over Democratic bid for Trump hotel documents
By Andrew Chung (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a bid by President Joe Biden's administration to block a lawsuit by several congressional Democrats seeking details of a gove...
May 15, 2023
U.S. Supreme Court spurns dispute over Monsanto class-action settlement
By Andrew Chung (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a dispute involving a lawsuit against Bayer AG's Monsanto Co that could rein in a common form of settlement in class action...
May 15, 2023
US Supreme Court takes up bid to revive South Carolina voting map deemed racially biased
By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a bid by South Carolina officials to revive a Republican-crafted voting map that a lower court said had unconstitut...
May 15, 2023
