Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Soccer-‘It’s not me!’: De Bruyne denies he co-wrote new Drake song ‘Wick Man’
(Reuters) - Manchester City midfielder Kevin De Bruyne may be one of the best assist providers in the Premier League but the Belgian was forced to concede he played no part in assisting off the pitch ...
Nov 17, 2023
US jobs data may be miscounting millions of ‘gig’ workers, research suggests
By Howard Schneider BOSTON (Reuters) - Millions of "gig" workers may get missed every month in the U.S. government's employment report, a discrepancy with implications for how Federal Reserve official...
Nov 17, 2023
Prominent US litigator David Boies to step down as law firm leader
By David Thomas (Reuters) - David Boies, who became one of America's most prominent lawyers in cases involving Microsoft, the 2000 U.S. presidential election and the fight to legalize same-sex marriag...
Nov 17, 2023
Trump lashes out at court clerk after NY gag order paused
By Jack Queen (Reuters) - Donald Trump wasted little time attacking a New York judge's top clerk on Thursday after an appeals court paused a gag order barring the former U.S president from speaking pu...
Nov 17, 2023
US aims to speed heat pump manufacturing using Cold War-era law
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. will fund nine projects with $169 million from last year's climate bill to speed manufacturing of heat pumps, systems that can heat and cool homes and businesses more e...
Nov 17, 2023
Climate protesters disrupt Sasol shareholders’ meeting
(Reuters) - South African climate protesters on Friday disrupted Sasol's annual shareholders' gathering, forcing the petrochemicals company to cancel the meeting. Sasol, the world's biggest producer o...
Nov 17, 2023
British author A.S. Byatt, who won Booker prize for ‘Possession’ dies aged 87
LONDON (Reuters) - Booker-prize winning British novelist Antonia Susan Byatt, known most commonly as A.S. Byatt, has died aged 87, her publisher said in a statement on Friday. Byatt, whose career span...
Nov 17, 2023
Flamenco cradle Seville hosts historic Latin Grammy awards
SEVILLE, Spain (Reuters) - Colombian singing star Shakira and Argentine DJ Bizarrap won song of the year and best pop song at the Latin Grammys Awards in the southern Spanish city of Seville, the firs...
Nov 17, 2023
US government spending bill extends farm programs, some nutrition aid
By Leah Douglas (Reuters) - The stopgap funding bill to keep the U.S. government open signed by President Joe Biden on Thursday includes funding through next September for farm programs and food assis...
Nov 17, 2023
Bus passengers use rope to pull themselves to safety as floods hit Kenya’s Mombasa
MOMBASA (Reuters) - Heavy rains pounded the streets of Kenyan coastal city of Mombasa, with some passengers evacuated from a flooded bus by holding on to a rope amid chest-high water. Others stood on ...
Nov 17, 2023
