Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
San Francisco sued by homeless demanding affordable housing
By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) - San Francisco's homeless are suing the City by the Bay, demanding that it stop rounding them up like criminals and invest in affordable housing instead. More than 57% of ...
Sep 28, 2022
‘Where’s Jackie?’ Biden seeks lawmaker Walorski who died in August
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden publicly sought out Jackie Walorski, an Indiana Congresswoman who died in a car accident in August, during a conference on hunger on Wednesday, seeming t...
Sep 28, 2022
Singer R. Kelly, already behind bars, ordered to pay victims
NEW YORK (Reuters) - R. Kelly, the multiplatinum R&B singer convicted twice this year of sex crimes, will be required to pay at least $300,000 in restitution to some of his victims, a federal judge sa...
Sep 28, 2022
Explainer-How hurricanes cause dangerous, destructive storm surges
(Reuters) - Hurricane Ian is expected to produce catastrophic storm surges as it powers into Florida's Gulf Coast on Wednesday, with forecasters predicting the sea inundating land up to 18 feet (5.5 m...
Sep 28, 2022
Orange juice prices surge as Hurricane Ian nears Florida; small risk to sugar
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Orange juice futures on ICE exchange traded up as much as 5.5% on Wednesday as Hurricane Ian approached the Florida coast, threatening to damage orange trees in the country's larg...
Sep 28, 2022
CDC Director: U.S. adopting PrEP strategy to expand monkeypox vaccine eligibility
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is expanding eligibility for Bavarian Nordic's Jynneos monkeypox vaccine by moving to a pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) strategy, U.S. Centers for Disease Prev...
Sep 28, 2022
Another $372 million on the way to Bernard Madoff’s victims
By Jonathan Stempel and Rami Ayyub NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Bernard Madoff's victims will soon receive another $372 million to help cover their losses, nearly 14 years after the swindler's capt...
Sep 28, 2022
Exclusive-Brands blast Twitter for ads next to child pornography accounts
By Sheila Dang and Katie Paul (Reuters) - Some major advertisers including Dyson, Mazda and chemicals company Ecolab have suspended their marketing campaigns or removed their ads from parts of Twitter...
Sep 28, 2022
Katie Couric reveals breast cancer diagnosis
(Reuters) - Former NBC "Today Show" co-host Katie Couric announced Wednesday that she underwent treatment for breast cancer. The 65-year-old Couric revealed the diagnosis on Instagram. "Every two minu...
Sep 28, 2022
Lawmakers ask Commerce Dept. to curb U.S. gun exports – letter
By Mike Stone WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congressional Democrats, including Senator Elizabeth Warren, have asked the U.S. Commerce Department to curb assault weapons exports and increase oversight of gun ...
Sep 28, 2022
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