Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Senators demand documents from Meta on social media harm to children
(Reuters) - A bipartisan group of U.S. Senators has written to Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg demanding documents about its research into the harm to children from its social media platforms. A wh...
Nov 15, 2023
Madeleine Carroll portrait, first ‘Hitchcock Blonde’, headed to auction
LONDON (Reuters) - A portrait of actress Madeleine Carroll, who was considered the first "Hitchcock Blonde", is headed for auction next month, with a price estimate of around $60,000 - $87,000. Hungar...
Nov 15, 2023
Emerald Fennell: Second film ‘Saltburn’ ‘sticky, not easily explained’
By Hanna Rantala LONDON (Reuters) - Writer, director and actor Emerald Fennell follows up her Oscar-winning feature debut "Promising Young Woman" with a starry satirical thriller, "Saltburn". Set in 2...
Nov 15, 2023
New York state sues PepsiCo over plastics pollution
NEW YORK (Reuters) -New York state sued PepsiCo on Wednesday, accusing the beverage and snack food giant of polluting the environment and endangering public health through its single-use plastic bottl...
Nov 15, 2023
US helps forge global group on measuring natgas’ climate-warming emissions
By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. and more than a dozen countries and groups have forged a working group to advance efforts to measure greenhouse gas emissions across the natural gas s...
Nov 15, 2023
Trump asks for mistrial in civil fraud case but faces high bar
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Donald Trump's lawyers on Wednesday urged a New York judge to declare a mistrial in a civil fraud case over his family real estate company's business practices, but the former U.S....
Nov 15, 2023
Hunter Biden seeks to subpoena Trump, former Attorney General Barr -court filing
By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden on Wednesday sought a federal court's permission to subpoena documents from former President Donald Trump and top ...
Nov 15, 2023
White House proposes transportation, commerce agencies handle new space regulations
By Joey Roulette NEW YORK (Reuters) -The Biden administration on Wednesday released a long-awaited proposal to split regulatory powers over emerging private-sector space activities between the U.S. tr...
Nov 15, 2023
US lawmakers question Apple over Jon Stewart’s China content
By Patricia Zengerle and Michael Martina WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers asked Apple Inc to explain the abrupt end of political comedian Jon Stewart's television show on its streaming service, a...
Nov 15, 2023
Athletics-U.S. Olympic Trials marathon start time moved over heat concerns
(Reuters) - The start time of the 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials marathon in Orlando has been moved to 10:00 a.m. local time from its original noon schedule over runners' heat concerns, the organizers said ...
Nov 15, 2023
