Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
U.S. triples reforestation spending for wildfire devastation
By Andrew Hay (Reuters) - The United States on Monday said it had tripled annual reforestation spending to tackle a four million acre replanting backlog driven by intense, climate-driven wildfires. U....
Jul 25, 2022
Judge blocks prosecutor from probing Georgia lawmaker in Trump election probe
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A judge in Georgia on Monday granted a Republican state lawmaker's request to disqualify the district attorney from probing the lawmaker directly in an investi...
Jul 25, 2022
Sixth boy charged in Central Park jogger case to be exonerated
By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) - A long overlooked co-defendant of the Central Park Five, a group of teenagers who were wrongly convicted of raping a white woman out jogging in 1989 based on fal...
Jul 25, 2022
California wildfire near Yosemite National Park expands overnight
By Sharon Bernstein SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) - California's largest wildfire so far this year steadily expanded overnight after exploding in size over the weekend and forcing thousands of people t...
Jul 25, 2022
Terminals at California’s third-busiest port resume regular hours on Monday
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Marine terminals at California's Port of Oakland reopened for regular weekday hours on Monday after independent truckers, formally ended a week-long protest of the state's new ...
Jul 25, 2022
Biden to hold virtual meeting with CEOs on chips legislation
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden will meet virtually on Monday with the chief executives of Lockheed Martin Corp, Medtronic PLC and Cummins Inc along with labor leaders as part of the admini...
Jul 25, 2022
Pfizer loses U.S. appeal over co-pays for heart failure patients
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Monday rejected Pfizer Inc's challenge to a U.S. anti-kickback law that the drugmaker said prevented it from helping heart failure p...
Jul 25, 2022
Investment banker, ex-FBI trainee charged with insider trading
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former investment banker, a former FBI agent trainee and several others were charged on Monday with insider trading in separate schemes that together generated millions of dolla...
Jul 25, 2022
Biden’s COVID symptoms ‘almost completely’ resolved, his physician says
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden's COVID-19 symptoms "have now almost completely resolved" since he tested positive last week, his physician said in a memo on Monday. "...
Jul 25, 2022
U.S. senator proposes raising mandatory commercial pilot retirement age to 67
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican Senator Lindsey Graham on Monday said he is proposing legislation that would raise the mandatory commercial pilot retirement age to 67 from 65. Graham's proposal woul...
Jul 25, 2022
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