Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
U.S. abortion rights activists start “summer of rage” with Saturday protests
By Gabriella Borter WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Abortion rights supporters will protest in cities across the United States on Saturday, kicking off what organizers said would be "a summer of rage" if the U...
May 14, 2022
Texas grid operator calls for power conservation as temperatures climb
HOUSTON (Reuters) -The state of Texas' power-grid operator on Friday called on residents to cut their electricity use this weekend after six generating plants fell offline in a heatwave. The Electric ...
May 13, 2022
Airlines press U.S. to lift pre-departure testing requirements
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. airlines are pressing the Biden administration to lift a 16-month-old rule requiring nearly all international air passengers with some exceptions to tes...
May 13, 2022
Texas high court says governor cannot order transgender child investigations
By Brad Brooks and Maria Caspani LUBBOCK, Texas (Reuters) - The Texas Supreme Court on Friday ruled that neither Governor Greg Abbott nor the state's attorney general had the authority to order child ...
May 13, 2022
Florida private equity manager gets 8 years prison in New York for defrauding banks
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Florida man who masterminded a "brazen, sophisticated" scheme to defraud banks into providing about $134 million of loans for his private equity fund was sen...
May 13, 2022
Dust storm, hurricane-force winds tear destructive path across U.S. upper Midwest
By Christopher Walljasper and P.J. Huffstutter CHICAGO (Reuters) - Hurricane-force winds tore across the U.S. upper Midwest Thursday evening, sending walls of dust across cities and rural towns, causi...
May 13, 2022
Sandy Hook families can resume defamation lawsuits vs InfoWars owner -attorneys
By Dietrich Knauth (Reuters) -Families of the victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre will be dismissed from the InfoWars bankruptcy case, allowing them to resume their defamation la...
May 13, 2022
U.S. House to weigh formula shortage bills next week, Pelosi says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives plans to take up an emergency funding bill next week to address ongoing infant formula shortages and move to empower a federal nutrition progra...
May 13, 2022
Former Reagan national security adviser McFarlane dies -Washington Post
(Reuters) - Robert McFarlane, a White House adviser who tapped Saudi royals to fund a covert war in Nicaragua and flew on a secret mission to sell arms to Iran in the scandal that shook Ronald Reagan'...
May 13, 2022
Mesa Airlines says it lost nearly 5% of its pilots in April
WASHINGTON/CHICAGO (Reuters) - Mesa Air Group Chairman and Chief Executive Jonathan Ornstein told a U.S. Senate panel on Friday that the airline lost nearly 5% of its pilots in April as larger carrier...
May 13, 2022
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