Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) National News (Master Feed)
Texas mall shooting prompts Biden to renew call for gun control
By Maria Caspani (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden on Sunday called on Congress to pass gun control bills in the wake of yet another mass shooting that left nine people dead, including the gunman, ...
May 07, 2023
Yellen warns against debt ceiling talks with ‘gun to the head of the American people’
By Tyler Clifford and John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Sunday warned that a failure by Congress to act on the debt ceiling could trigger a "constitutional cri...
May 07, 2023
Factbox-What did former FCC Chair Newton Minow say about television?
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Newton Minow's first speech as chair of the Federal Communications Commission was his most memorable. In addressing leading U.S. broadcast executives on May 9, 1961, in Washingt...
May 07, 2023
Former FCC Chair Newton Minow, who called 1960s TV ‘vast wasteland’, dies at 97
By Bill Trott (Reuters) - Former U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chair Newton Minow, who lambasted television as a "vast wasteland" more than 60 years ago and challenged the broadcast world to ...
May 07, 2023
Police responding to shooting at Texas mall, multiple people injured
(Reuters) -Police are responding to a shooting in a suburban Dallas mall on Saturday that has left multiple people injured, authorities say. There was no word on deaths or the number of people injured...
May 06, 2023
Senate Republicans oppose vote just to raise US debt ceiling, push for other priorities
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A group of 43 Republicans in the U.S. Senate said they oppose voting on a bill that only raises the U.S. debt ceiling without tackling other priorities, in a letter to Democrati...
May 06, 2023
No harmful chemical levels in air after Shell Texas chemical plant fire, company says
(Reuters) - Air monitoring around an extinguished fire at the Shell Plc's chemical plant in Deer Park, Texas, showed no harmful levels of chemicals in the air, the company said on Saturday, added that...
May 06, 2023
Horse racing-Kentucky Derby favourite Forte scratched from race
(Reuters) -Early favourite Forte has been scratched from the Kentucky Derby hours before post time for the first leg of U.S. thoroughbred racing's Triple Crown due to concerns about a bruised front fo...
May 06, 2023
Biden says not yet ready to invoke 14th Amendment to avoid debt default
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden said on Friday he was not yet ready to invoke the 14th Amendment to avoid the United States defaulting on its debts as early as June 1, comments which for th...
May 05, 2023
Man who pepper-sprayed police gets 14 years in longest Jan. 6-related sentence
By Andrew Goudsward and Steve Gorman WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Pennsylvania man found guilty of felony assault and other charges for pepper-spraying police officers outside the U.S. Capitol was sentenc...
May 05, 2023
