Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) National News (Master Feed)
Union to brief Hollywood writers as strike disrupts TV production
By Lisa Richwine and Rollo Ross LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Striking film and television writers are set to meet with union leadership on Wednesday to discuss the work stoppage that threw Hollywood into d...
May 03, 2023
US fentanyl-related deaths more than tripled over 5 years
By Nandhini Srinivasan and Sriparna Roy (Reuters) - The rate of drug overdose deaths involving the synthetic opioid fentanyl more than tripled in the United States from 2016 through 2021, according to...
May 03, 2023
US to continue humanitarian program after Title 42 end date – joint statement
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The United States will continue to accept migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela under a humanitarian program after May 11, when the COVID-19 health policy known a...
May 02, 2023
Utah judge temporarily blocks law ending licenses for abortion clinics
(Reuters) - A court in Utah has stopped the state's Republican-dominated government from enforcing a new law that would effectively end abortions by making it impossible to get a license for a clinic ...
May 02, 2023
‘Plagiarism machines’: Hollywood writers and studios battle over the future of AI
By Dawn Chmielewski and Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hollywood writers have for decades penned sci-fi scripts featuring machines taking over the world. Now, they are fighting to make sure rob...
May 02, 2023
North Carolina Republicans reach agreement on 12-week abortion ban
By Sharon Bernstein (Reuters) - Republican lawmakers in North Carolina said on Tuesday they had reached agreement on a plan to limit most abortions to the first trimester of pregnancy, a sharp drop fr...
May 02, 2023
Suspect in killings of 5 people in Texas arrested after days-long manhunt -NBC
(Reuters) - A man who authorities think is the suspect accused of killing five neighbors in Texas over complaints of noise he was making by firing his gun outside at night was arrested near the crime ...
May 02, 2023
Montana transgender legislator loses court bid to return to floor
(Reuters) - Censured Montana transgender Representative Zooey Zephyr on Tuesday lost a last-minute legal attempt to rejoin debate on the House floor, as a Montana judge rejected her attempt to overtur...
May 02, 2023
U.S. will not extend July 1 5G airplane retrofit deadline
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg told airlines on Tuesday the Biden administration does not plan to extend a July 1 deadline for airlines to retrofit airplane altime...
May 02, 2023
Florida prosecutor suspended by DeSantis over abortion seeks reinstatement by US court
By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) - A lawyer for a Florida prosecutor on Tuesday urged a federal appeals court to reinstate his client after the state's Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, indefinitely susp...
May 02, 2023
