Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
U.S. stops controlled burns nationwide after New Mexico disaster
By Andrew Hay TAOS, N.M. (Reuters) - The U.S. Forest Service (USFS) on Friday called a temporary nationwide halt to controlled burns meant to reduce fire risk after the agency accidentally started par...
May 20, 2022
Pentagon’s Kirby to take up senior White House communications role
(Reuters) - Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby will become the White House's National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications, the White House said in a statement on Friday. "In this r...
May 20, 2022
Baseball writer Roger Angell dies at 101
By Bill Trott Roger Angell, who brought a fan's perspective, an intellectual's enlightenment and a poet's lyrical touch to his essays on baseball for The New Yorker magazine, building a reputation as ...
May 20, 2022
U.S. House Speaker Pelosi barred from Catholic communion over abortion stance
By Brad Brooks (Reuters) - U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi can no longer take communion because she supports abortion rights and also publicly invokes her Catholic faith, the archbishop of San Francis...
May 20, 2022
Oracle’s Ellison joined Nov 2020 call about contesting Trump’s defeat
By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Larry Ellison, billionaire chairman and co-founder of Oracle Corp, participated shortly after the November 2020 U.S. presidential election in a phone call focused o...
May 20, 2022
U.S. judge blocks plan to lift COVID border restrictions for migrants
By Kristina Cooke and Mica Rosenberg (Reuters) - U.S. authorities cannot immediately proceed with plans to lift pandemic restrictions that empowered U.S. agents at the Mexico border to turn back migra...
May 20, 2022
Michigan pro-Trump state lawmaker sought access to voting machines
By Nathan Layne MARKEY TOWNSHIP, Michigan (Reuters) - The top election official in this small Michigan town said she received an unusual call in March last year. A Republican state lawmaker who backed...
May 20, 2022
U.S. CDC says adenovirus leading hypothesis for severe hepatitis in children
By Deena Beasley (Reuters) - Infection with adenovirus, a common childhood virus, is the leading hypothesis for recent cases of severe hepatitis of unknown origin in children that have led to at least...
May 20, 2022
Analysis-Tesla brand threatened by Musk harassment claim, criticism of Democrats
By Hyunjoo Jin and Paul Lienert (Reuters) - Elon Musk has made a name for himself and Tesla by breaking the rules, but the billionaire's latest comments on politics and a claim of sexual harassment ag...
May 20, 2022
More monkeypox cases in U.S. likely but risk to public is low, official says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Additional cases of monkeypox are likely to be detected in the United States in the coming days but the risk to the general public is low at this time, a senior U.S. administrat...
May 20, 2022
