Category Archives: (Midwest Communications, Inc. Syndication Interface) Science News (Master Feed)
Biden to pick Connecticut Education Commissioner Miguel Cardona as U.S. Secretary of Education – source
(Reuters) - President-elect Joe Biden is set to name Connecticut's Commissioner of Education Miguel Cardona as his pick for U.S. Secretary of Education, according to a transition team source. Cardona,...
Dec 22, 2020
Trump meets U.S. House Republican allies to push voter fraud claims
By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump met a group of Republican lawmakers on Monday in his thus-far fruitless bid to gain momentum for claims that the Nov. 3 presidential...
Dec 21, 2020
U.S. federal spending bill includes funding to combat climate change
(Reuters) - The bill providing coronavirus aid and funding the U.S. government that is expected to be approved on Monday contains measures to address climate change, including limiting the use of a po...
Dec 21, 2020
Water chestnuts and Smokey Bear: Surprises await under the ‘Christmas tree’ COVID-19 relief bill
By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The 5,593-page bill poised to pass the U.S. Congress on Monday provides plenty of coronavirus aid. It also ensures that you will not go to prison for transporti...
Dec 21, 2020
Biden receives COVID-19 vaccine at Delaware hospital
NEWARK, Del. (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Joe Biden received his first dose of the Pfizer Inc COVID-19 vaccine on Monday at a hospital in Newark, Delaware, and he urged Americans to get the vaccin...
Dec 21, 2020
Exclusive: Biden team weighs deportation relief for more than 1 million Hondurans, Guatemalans
By Ted Hesson and Laura Gottesdiener WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The incoming Biden administration is considering a plan to shield more than a million immigrants from Honduras and Guatemala from deportatio...
Dec 21, 2020
‘Better than nothing’- the U.S. $900 billion COVID-19 stimulus helps but underwhelms
By Ann Saphir and Jonnelle Marte The $900 billion pandemic aid package expected to win Congressional approval on Monday will deliver support to a recession-ravaged economy slowing under a deadly coron...
Dec 21, 2020
Twitter’s Dorsey stops following Trump, Biden
By Elizabeth Culliford (Reuters) - Twitter Inc Chief Executive Jack Dorsey appeared to stop following President Donald Trump on the social media platform this weekend, according to a Twitter account t...
Dec 21, 2020
Barr: no plans to appoint special counsel in Hunter Biden probe
By Mark Hosenball and David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General William Barr said on Monday he has no plans to appoint a special counsel to investigate Hunter Biden, son of Preside...
Dec 21, 2020
U.S. House panel subpoenas health chief, CDC head over COVID-19 response
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of a U.S. House Oversight Committee panel on COVID-19 on Monday issued subpoenas to two top Trump administration health officials over accusations of political interfer...
Dec 21, 2020
