Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
U.S. imposes sanctions on 15 Khordad Foundation over Salman Rushdie bounty
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States imposed sanctions on Friday on the 15 Khordad Foundation for offering a multimillion dollar bounty for the killing of British-American author Salman Rushdie, t...
Oct 28, 2022
U.S. House Speaker Pelosi’s husband ‘violently assaulted’ -Pelosi statement
By Andy Sullivan and Brendan O'Brien WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, was "violently assaulted" after a break-in at the couple's San Francisco home early o...
Oct 28, 2022
Factbox-Parties clash in election lawsuits ahead of U.S. midterms
By Andy Sullivan and Jacqueline Thomsen WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In the months leading up to the U.S. midterm elections, lawyers for Democrats and Republicans are already squaring off in a wave of lawsu...
Oct 28, 2022
Behind U.S. Supreme Court race cases, a contested push for ‘color blindness’
By Andrew Chung (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court's first Black woman justice, Ketanji Brown Jackson, wasted no time making clear her views on race. On her second day of hearing arguments on the cour...
Oct 28, 2022
Obama looks to light up Democrat’s chances in key Georgia U.S. Senate race
By James Oliphant WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats call in their biggest star, Barack Obama, on Friday in the hopes that the former president can excite voters in Georgia and help the party hold onto ...
Oct 28, 2022
Eight killed in Oklahoma house fire
(Reuters) - Eight people died in a house fire on Thursday in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, where police said the blaze was being investigated as a homicide. Neighbors reported the fire about 4 p.m. (2100 GM...
Oct 27, 2022
Whale injuries from drift gillnets off California spark lawsuit against U.S
By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Environmentalists on Thursday sued the agency overseeing U.S. fisheries, claiming it had failed to protect endangered humpback whales from entanglement in drift...
Oct 27, 2022
Golf-For 9/11 families LIV Golf is ‘Death Golf,’ says advocacy group
By Steve Keating MIAMI (Reuters) - As Donald Trump was teeing off in a Pro Am event at the season finale of the Saudi-backed LIV Golf Series at the ex-president's Trump National Golf Club on Thursday,...
Oct 27, 2022
CEO of Michigan election software firm seeks dismissal of charges
By Nathan Layne (Reuters) - The head of a Michigan election software company facing felony charges in California for allegedly storing poll worker data in China filed a motion on Thursday to dismiss t...
Oct 27, 2022
More than 300 groups urge Biden involvement to avoid rail shutdown
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than 300 groups including the National Retail Federation and National Association of Manufacturers on Thursday urged President Joe Biden's involvement to help avoid a poten...
Oct 27, 2022
