Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
House Democrats rush to defend record on crime as U.S. midterms loom
By Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Seeking to stem expected losses in the midterm elections, almost a dozen Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives have in the past week rolled out or seen...
Oct 27, 2022
Barrack testifies he told Trump to use Khashoggi murder to end Qatar blockade
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) - Tom Barrack, a onetime fundraiser for Donald Trump, testified on Thursday at his trial on charges of being an illegal foreign agent that he urged the then-president t...
Oct 27, 2022
U.S. to scrap sea-launched nuclear missile despite military backing
By Idrees Ali and Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will stop developing nuclear-armed sea launched cruise missiles, Pentagon documents released on Thursday said, despite senior mi...
Oct 27, 2022
McKinsey reaches deal with U.S. local governments over opioids
By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) - Leading consulting firm McKinsey & Co has agreed to settle claims by hundreds of U.S. local governments and school districts around the country that it fueled an epidemi...
Oct 27, 2022
Conservative activist steers U.S. Supreme Court college race cases
By Nate Raymond (Reuters) - When the U.S. Supreme Court next week considers ending policies used by many colleges and universities to increase their numbers of Black and Hispanic students, a conservat...
Oct 27, 2022
Democrats turn to Obama for midterm miracle, or at least to stem the bleeding
By James Oliphant WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Less than two weeks before the U.S. midterm elections, with Democrats on verge of losing their razor-thin majority in Congress, the party is asking former Pres...
Oct 27, 2022
Biden to warn Republicans will boost inflation in Syracuse
By Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden will once again contrast his economic plan with Republicans' on Thursday in a last-ditch effort to convince voters Democrats are better equip...
Oct 27, 2022
Biden compares Republican economic plans to Britain’s Truss
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday compared Republican plans on taxes and spending if they take control of Congress in November to the economic plan rolled out by Britain's f...
Oct 26, 2022
U.S. Supreme Court’s Kagan freezes dispute over Arizona Republican’s phone records
(Reuters) - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan on Wednesday temporarily blocked the House of Representatives committee investigating last year's attack on the U.S. Capitol from obtaining Arizona R...
Oct 26, 2022
St. Louis school shooter may have used gun that police confiscated months ago
By Dan Whitcomb (Reuters) - A 19-year-old man who went on a deadly shooting rampage at a St. Louis high school this week may have used the same firearm that his mother had removed from the family home...
Oct 26, 2022
