Category Archives: (Midwest Communications, Inc. Syndication Interface) Science News (Master Feed)
Biden’s agriculture secretary pick disappoints Black farmers
By Christopher Walljasper CHICAGO (Reuters) - President-elect Joe Biden has promised to address racial inequality in agriculture. But some Black farmers aren't so sure he picked the right man for the ...
Dec 11, 2020
Factbox-When and how electors in key contested states cast their votes for U.S. president
(Reuters) - Democrat Joe Biden's journey to the White House is set to cross a key threshold on Monday when the U.S. Electoral College formally picks the winner of November's presidential election amid...
Dec 11, 2020
U.S. Congress passes bill averting government shutdown; fight on coronavirus aid drags on
By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate, facing a midnight deadline on Friday, unanimously approved a one-week extension of expiring federal funding to avoid a government shutdown and ...
Dec 11, 2020
Steve Bannon hires Giuliani’s lawyer to replace attorney who left after threat to Fauci
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - Steve Bannon, the former adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump, has hired a lawyer who also represents the president's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani to defend...
Dec 11, 2020
U.S. Senate backs $740 billion defense bill by veto-proof margin; voting continues
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - At least 75 members of the Republican-led U.S. Senate voted for a sweeping $740 billion annual defense bill as voting continued on Friday, a number larger than the two-thirds ma...
Dec 11, 2020
U.S. House Democrat slams Trump trade policies, urges Biden to work with allies
By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of the powerful U.S. House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee on Friday slammed what he called President Donald Trump's "unsophisticated respo...
Dec 11, 2020
U.S. Senate advances massive defense bill, despite Trump veto threat
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Senate threw its weight behind the annual National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, a $740 billion bill setting policy for the Department of Defense, voting by a larg...
Dec 11, 2020
Georgia Republicans fired up for Senate runoff despite ‘rigged’ election fears
By Nathan Layne VALDOSTA, Ga. (Reuters) - Convinced that the presidential election had been stolen from Donald Trump, the young couple from Blairsville, Georgia at first resolved to skip the state's J...
Dec 11, 2020
Probe of Biden’s son places new scrutiny on U.S. attorney general pick
By Jarrett Renshaw and James Oliphant WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A newly revealed federal criminal probe into the business dealings of Joe Biden's son Hunter will complicate the president-elect's selectio...
Dec 10, 2020
Website targeting U.S. election officials draws attention of intelligence agencies
By Andy Sullivan, Brad Heath and Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The harassment campaign against U.S. election officials following President Donald Trump's defeat took an ominous turn on Thursda...
Dec 10, 2020
