Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Ex-top Justice Dept officials testimony sought in ethics hearing of Trump ally Clark
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top two U.S. Justice Department officials in the waning days of Donald Trump's presidency will be asked to testify publicly in a legal disciplinary hearing...
Oct 06, 2022
U.S. House panel probing Jan. 6, 2021, attack to hold hearing Oct. 13
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives select committee investigating the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol will conduct its next hearing on Oct. 13, the panel said in a sta...
Oct 06, 2022
Explainer-Why are U.S. fuel prices rising again? Will they keep going up?
By Laura Sanicola (Reuters) - U.S. gasoline prices have been rising again, and many worry that costs at the pump will go up further after OPEC and its allies said Wednesday the group known as OPEC+ wo...
Oct 06, 2022
U.S. judge temporarily blocks parts of New York’s new gun law
By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) -A federal judge in New York on Thursday temporarily blocked parts of the state's new gun law to allow the Gun Owners of America, an advocacy group, to pursue a la...
Oct 06, 2022
Biden says he is evaluating alternatives after disappointing OPEC+ decision
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden expressed disappointment on Thursday over announced plans by OPEC+ nations to cut oil output and said the United States was looking at its alternatives....
Oct 06, 2022
Soccer-U.S. players ‘angry, exhausted’ after report on abuse, says Rapinoe
By Frank Pingue (Reuters) - Megan Rapinoe said on Thursday she and her fellow U.S. women's national team members are angry and exhausted in the wake of a scathing report into allegations of abuse and ...
Oct 06, 2022
U.S. House Speaker raises ‘serious concerns’ about $5.4 billion Tegna deal
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone on Thursday raised serious concerns about the proposed $5.4 billion a...
Oct 06, 2022
Amazon to hire 150,000 workers ahead of holiday season
(Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc said on Thursday it would hire 150,000 employees in full-time, seasonal and part-time roles across its operations in the United States ahead of the upcoming holiday season. ...
Oct 06, 2022
About 118,000 still without power in Puerto Rico two weeks after Fiona
NEW YORK (Reuters) - An estimated 118,000 homes and businesses were still without power in Puerto Rico on Thursday, over two weeks after Hurricane Fiona caused an island-wide outage for its 3.3 millio...
Oct 06, 2022
French author Annie Ernaux wins 2022 Nobel Prize for Literature
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -French author Annie Ernaux won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints o...
Oct 06, 2022
