Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Meatpackers convinced Trump officials to keep plants running during COVID crisis -U.S. House report
By Leah Douglas (Reuters) - Top U.S. meatpacking companies drafted the executive order issued by President Donald Trump in 2020 to keep meat plants running and convinced his administration to encourag...
May 12, 2022
U.S. groups urge social media companies to fight ‘Big Lie,” election disinformation
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Social media companies including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and TikTok must act now to blunt the effect of false information - including Donald Trump's "Big Lie" that his 2020 d...
May 12, 2022
D-Wave sets up latest quantum computer in California
(Reuters) - Vancouver-based quantum computing firm D-Wave Systems Inc said on Thursday it has deployed its latest quantum computer to the University of Southern California. D-Wave's most powerful mach...
May 12, 2022
U.S. citizen tells of tearful reunion after Ukraine rescue mission
By Alan Charlish and Hedy Beloucif WARSAW (Reuters) - A U.S. citizen who says he was held captive and beaten by Russian forces in Ukraine before being rescued by a private volunteer group spoke of his...
May 12, 2022
U.S. cities are backing off banning facial recognition as crime rises
By Paresh Dave OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) - Facial recognition is making a comeback in the United States as bans to thwart the technology and curb racial bias in policing come under threat amid a surge...
May 12, 2022
California regulators set to vote on desalination plant
By Daniel Trotta COSTA MESA, Calif. (Reuters) - California regulators on Thursday will vote on whether to approve a proposed $1.4 billion plant to convert seawater to drinking water, a project billed ...
May 12, 2022
Biden to mark 1 million American dead from coronavirus Thursday
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday plans to commemorate the death of 1 million Americans from COVID-19 by issuing a proclamation ordering flags to be flown at half-staff, the ...
May 12, 2022
U.S. House panel advances Supreme Court ethics bill
By Moira Warburton and Nate Raymond WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. House of Representatives panel on Wednesday advanced a bill requiring the Supreme Court to adopt an ethics code and strengthen rules f...
May 11, 2022
Homes burn in wealthy California town of Laguna Niguel
(Reuters) - Fire swept through the wealthy Southern California enclave of Laguna Niguel on Wednesday, burning at least six homes while scorching about 200 acres (80.9 hectares) and prompting evacuatio...
May 11, 2022
U.S. Senate confirms economist Philip Jefferson to Fed board
(Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly to confirm Philip Jefferson, an economist and Davidson College's dean of faculty, to the Federal Reserve Board. Jefferson's appointment wa...
May 11, 2022
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