Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) National News (Master Feed)
DeSantis to travel abroad as he gears up for expected presidential run
By James Oliphant and Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who is expected to run for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, is set to begin a trip abroad on Satur...
Apr 20, 2023
U.S. House Republicans squirm over Speaker McCarthy’s debt ceiling proposal
By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has begun working in earnest to persuade his fellow Republicans to support a $1.5 trillion increase in the nation's debt ceili...
Apr 20, 2023
DeSantis signs bill to lower bar on death sentence in Florida
By Tyler Clifford (Reuters) - Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill on Thursday ending a requirement that juries need to vote unanimously to recommend capital punishment before a judge in a capi...
Apr 20, 2023
Judge rules Trump free to skip rape accuser’s trial, jurors won’t hear why
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - Donald Trump is free to skip a New York trial over accusations he raped a writer nearly 30 years ago, but jurors will not be told his absence was meant to spar...
Apr 20, 2023
US Senate panel seeks Supreme Court’s Roberts testimony on ethics
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate Judiciary Committee's chairman called on U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts to testify at a May 2 hearing on Supreme ethics reform after earlier urging him to investigat...
Apr 20, 2023
Biden’s labor nominee accused in Senate hearing of harming Uber, Lyft, others
By Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden's nominee for U.S. labor secretary, Julie Su, was attacked by Republican lawmakers as she testified before a Senate panel on Thursday for alle...
Apr 20, 2023
Emergent aims to price over-the-counter Narcan at about $50
(Reuters) - Contract drugmaker Emergent BioSolutions Inc said on Thursday it is aiming to price the over-the-counter (OTC) version of its opioid overdose reversal drug Narcan at around $50 per carton....
Apr 20, 2023
Ex-prosecutor in New York Trump probe to testify in congressional deposition
By Luc Cohen (Reuters) - Mark Pomerantz, the former prosecutor who once led the Manhattan district attorney's criminal inquiry into the business practices of ex-president Donald Trump, is set to appea...
Apr 20, 2023
Trump rape accuser set for her day in court
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - Donald Trump is already the first former American president to face criminal charges. Jurors are expected to soon decide in an unrelated civil case whether he ...
Apr 20, 2023
Republican-led US House to vote on ban on transgender student athletes
By Katharine Jackson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote Thursday on a bill that would ban transgender women and girls from competing in ...
Apr 20, 2023
