Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
US draft abortion decision could implicate same-sex marriage, contraception, Biden says
By Trevor Hunnicutt CHICAGO (Reuters) - The draft U.S. Supreme Court decision on abortion leaked earlier this month could mean the court will later go after same-sex marriage, contraception, and other...
May 11, 2022
COVID claims 1 million U.S. lives, leaving trail of loss
By Maria Caspani NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United States has now recorded more than 1 million COVID-19 deaths, according to a Reuters tally, crossing a once-unthinkable milestone about two years after ...
May 11, 2022
China opposes semiconductor bill because it will give U.S. advantage -U.S. commerce chief
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said Wednesday the Chinese government opposes an effort in Congress to ramp up U.S. semiconductor manufacturing because...
May 11, 2022
Pentagon asks Congress to fund mining projects in Australia, U.K
By Ernest Scheyder (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Defense has asked Congress to let it fund facilities in the United Kingdom and Australia that process strategic minerals used to make electric veh...
May 11, 2022
U.S. Justice Dept bolsters Supreme Court security ahead of abortion ruling
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday that it was stepping up security for members of the U.S. Supreme Court ahead of an anticipated ruling by the high court that could s...
May 11, 2022
Surfside condo collapse victims reach $997 million settlement -Wall Street Journal
(Reuters) - Victims of the Surfside condominium collapse and their families have reached a proposed $997 million settlement with insurers and others, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, cit...
May 11, 2022
U.S. Senate blocks consideration of abortion rights legislation
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Democratic bill that would legalize abortion throughout the United States was failing to get the 60 votes needed to advance in the U.S. Senate on Wednesday, amid strong Republ...
May 11, 2022
Fed’s Powell could get Senate renomination nod Wednesday
(Deletes extraneous material) (Reuters) - Jerome Powell, nominated for a second term as chair of the Federal Reserve by President Joe Biden, could get U.S. Senate confirmation late on Wednesday, accor...
May 11, 2022
Exclusive-Biden eyes new ways to bar China from scooping up U.S. data
By Alexandra Alper and Karen Freifeld WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Biden administration has drafted an executive order that would give the Department of Justice vast powers to stop foreign adversaries l...
May 11, 2022
Judge finds Florida’s Republican-backed congressional map illegally harms Black voters
(Reuters) - A Florida judge on Wednesday said the state's new congressional map, championed by Republican Governor Ron DeSantis, unconstitutionally dilutes Black citizens' voting power. During a virtu...
May 11, 2022
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