Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) National News (Master Feed)
Biden takes questions at kids ‘news conference’ at White House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - It was take-your-child-to-work day at the White House on Thursday and President Joe Biden leaped fully into the event, taking questions from inquisitive kids at a mock news conf...
Apr 27, 2023
Democrats, Republicans dig in on debt-ceiling standoff after House action
By David Morgan and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate showed no sign of moving to avoid a looming debt-ceiling crisis on Thursday, as Republicans rejected calls to raise the $31.4 t...
Apr 27, 2023
White woman who accused lynched teen Emmett Till dies
By Brad Brooks (Reuters) - A white woman whose discredited accusations against Black teenager Emmett Till led to his lynching in 1955 has died in Louisiana, according to a coroner's report. Till's mur...
Apr 27, 2023
U.S. appeals court upholds Florida voting law that judge found discriminatory
By Joseph Ax (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld several Republican-backed voting restrictions in Florida, overruling a lower court judge who had found the laws intentionally discri...
Apr 27, 2023
Trump paints doomsday scenario if Biden wins White House again
By Nathan Layne MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Donald Trump will use his first campaign event since President Joe Biden officially entered the 2024 election race to portray their differences in...
Apr 27, 2023
Flooding on Upper Mississippi River to halt barge traffic for weeks -USDA
By P.J. Huffstutter CHICAGO (Reuters) - All barge traffic will be halted across a wide swath of the Upper Mississippi River for weeks, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Thursday, as record winte...
Apr 27, 2023
Factbox-U.S. state abortion legislation to watch in 2023
By Gabriella Borter and Sharon Bernstein (Reuters) - State legislatures are wrestling with how much to restrict or expand abortion access after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year....
Apr 27, 2023
IRS chief says agency will not hire any armed auditors in $80 billion investment plan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Danny Werfel on Thursday said the agency will not hire any armed auditors with $80 billion in new funding, in an attempt to dispel Republic...
Apr 27, 2023
Senators urge Biden to enable agency to seize tankers of Iran oil
By Timothy Gardner and Jonathan Saul WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As Iran's oil exports rise despite U.S. sanctions over its nuclear program, senators from both parties urged President Joe Biden to enable a...
Apr 27, 2023
U.S. Senate panel seeks ethics details from Supreme Court -letter
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate Judiciary Committee called on U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Roberts to provide details about the top court's ethics practices, the panel's chairman said on Thursday...
Apr 27, 2023
