Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Tennessee sues Walgreens pharmacy chain over opioid distribution
By Steve Gorman (Reuters) - The state of Tennessee sued Walgreens on Wednesday, accusing the retail pharmacy giant of fueling the state's opioid epidemic by willfully flooding the market with an overs...
Aug 03, 2022
U.S. Homeland Security watchdog broke ethics rules in previous job, report says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Homeland Security Department Inspector General Joseph Cuffari, who has been embroiled in controversy over the investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, vi...
Aug 03, 2022
Kansas offers abortion playbook for Democrats ahead of November midterms
By Gabriella Borter and Joseph Ax (Reuters) - A decisive victory for abortion rights in deeply conservative Kansas has boosted Democrats' hopes that they can harness voter anger over efforts to limit ...
Aug 03, 2022
Sandy Hook parents seek to stop InfoWars bankruptcy payments to Alex Jones
By Dietrich Knauth (Reuters) - Parents of children killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre urged a U.S. bankruptcy judge on Wednesday not to allow the parent company of far-right website InfoWar...
Aug 03, 2022
U.S. Justice Department sues Trump adviser Navarro over White House records
(Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday sued Peter Navarro, an adviser to former President Donald Trump, seeking emails from his time in the White House that he has refused to return w...
Aug 03, 2022
U.S. regulators defend requiring more data on monkeypox drug
By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) - As U.S. monkeypox cases rise, U.S. health agencies in a medical journal article published on Wednesday defended their decision to require human trial data to s...
Aug 03, 2022
Tyson Foods ignoring subpoena for meat price gouging probe, NY attorney general says
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - Tyson Foods Inc, one of the largest U.S. meat producers, is refusing to comply with a subpoena for a civil probe into possible price gouging during the COVID-1...
Aug 03, 2022
U.S. Senate panel seeks legislative path to avoid repeat of Jan. 6 violence
By Rose Horowitch and David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Senate panel on Wednesday took up proposals to reform federal election law, aiming to avoid a repeat of the violence of Jan. 6, 2021, w...
Aug 03, 2022
U.S. CDC expected to ease COVID-19 guidelines for schools this week – CNN
(Reuters) -The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is expected to ease its guidelines to control the spread of COVID-19, including in schools as soon as this week, CNN reported on We...
Aug 03, 2022
Congresswoman Jackie Walorski dies in car crash, Republican leader says
(Reuters) - Congresswoman Jackie Walorski of Indiana died in a car accident on Wednesday, U.S. House of Representatives Republican leader Kevin McCarthy said. Three other people were killed in the cra...
Aug 03, 2022
