Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Factbox-Broad U.S. support for abortion rights at odds with Supreme Court’s restrictions
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court decision upending nearly a half century of legal protection for abortion rights is sharply at odds with public opinion in a country where a sizable majori...
Jun 24, 2022
Explainer-How abortion became a divisive issue in U.S. politics
By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Since the U.S. Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision legalized abortion nationwide in 1973, the issue has become one of the defining fault lines in U.S. politics...
Jun 24, 2022
Analysis-Trump’s justices decisive in long campaign to overturn Roe v. Wade
By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Seventeen months after leaving office, former President Donald Trump delivered on a campaign promise when the conservative U.S. Supreme Court majority he ceme...
Jun 24, 2022
U.S. Supreme Court overturns abortion rights landmark
By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday took the dramatic step of overturning the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that recognized a woman's constitutional right to ...
Jun 24, 2022
Ex-Trump Justice Dept official Clark confirms law enforcement raid of his home
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark confirmed that federal law enforcement agents raided his home this week, the day after a congressional panel spotlighted hi...
Jun 24, 2022
Landmark gun-safety bill heads to U.S. House after Senate passage
By Katharine Jackson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A gun-safety bill that marked rare bipartisan cooperation as it passed the U.S. Senate was poised for approval by the House of Representatives on Friday on ...
Jun 24, 2022
Texas repeatedly raises pollution limits for Cheniere LNG plant
By Nichola Groom and Valerie Volcovici PORTLAND, Texas (Reuters) - Cheniere, the largest U.S. exporter of liquefied natural gas, boasts that it's helping to "improve local air quality in communities g...
Jun 24, 2022
UN rights office: Findings suggest Al Jazeera journalist killed by Israeli forces
LONDON (Reuters) - Findings show that Israeli security forces fired the bullets that killed Palestinian-American reporter Shireen Abu Akleh in May, and not indiscriminate firing from Palestinians, a s...
Jun 24, 2022
Curtis Mewbourne, Texas oil company founder, dies at 86
(Reuters) - Curtis Mewbourne, founder of one of the largest closely held oil companies in the United States, died on Thursday at age 86. His company, Mewbourne Oil Co., operates more than 2,100 oil an...
Jun 23, 2022
Majority of U.S. Senate votes to pass landmark gun safety bill; voting continues
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A rare bipartisan package of gun safety legislation garnered enough votes to pass the U.S. Senate on Thursday, but voting continued on the bill that Democrats and Republicans ho...
Jun 23, 2022
