Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) National News (Master Feed)
US Senate panel advances Biden’s labor secretary choice, opposed by gig worker apps
By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) - A U.S. Senate committee on Wednesday voted along party lines to advance President Joe Biden's nominee for U.S. labor secretary, Julie Su, to the full Senate for what wil...
Apr 26, 2023
Disney sues Florida Gov. DeSantis over state efforts to control Disney World
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Walt Disney Co sued Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis on Wednesday, asking a court to overturn state efforts to exert control over the company's Walt Disney World theme ...
Apr 26, 2023
Ex-Harvard professor sentenced to 6 months house arrest for lying about China ties
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A former Harvard University professor was sentenced on Wednesday to six months' house arrest for lying about his ties to a China-run recruitment program, prosec...
Apr 26, 2023
US senator urges AI company CEOs to take steps to address risks
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday urged CEOs of several artificial intelligence (AI) companies to prioritize security measures, combat bias, and respon...
Apr 26, 2023
Uber drivers are not interstate workers exempt from arbitration, US court rules
By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) - Uber Technologies Inc drivers are not exempt from a U.S. law requiring them to bring work-related legal disputes in private arbitration rather than joining class action ...
Apr 26, 2023
Biden administration says Republican debt plan would hurt rural communities
By Leah Douglas WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Biden administration said on Wednesday the plan from U.S. Republican lawmakers to cut federal spending for a decade in exchange for raising the debt ceiling ...
Apr 26, 2023
Florida board may ban Disney from imposing COVID mask or vaccine rules
By Dawn Chmielewski and Lisa Richwine (Reuters) - An oversight board in Florida on Wednesday will consider a ban on future COVID-19 mask or vaccine mandates at Walt Disney World, part of an effort by ...
Apr 26, 2023
U.S. FAA names independent safety review team to boost air safety
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Wednesday named an independent safety review team to look at ways to boost air safety after a series of close ca...
Apr 26, 2023
US Supreme Court mulls legality of a state’s property tax ‘windfall’
By Andrew Chung and John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday is set to hear a 94-year-old woman's battle with a Minnesota county government that seized and sold her condo...
Apr 26, 2023
Bannon associates to be sentenced for fraud over Trump’s border wall
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two former associates of Steve Bannon are set to be sentenced on Wednesday in federal court in Manhattan, after they admitted to conspiring to defraud donors to a cam...
Apr 26, 2023
