Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
U.S. to kick off latest offshore wind auction for Carolina coast
By Nichola Groom (Reuters) -Bidding for federal wind energy leases for two areas off the coast of North Carolina and South Carolina kicked off on Wednesday, with each attracting over $2.7 million. The...
May 11, 2022
Exclusive-U.S. anti-drugs agency pulls plane from Mexico in fresh cooperation blow
By Drazen Jorgic MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has stopped stationing a plane in Mexico for anti-narcotics operations for the first time in decades after Mexic...
May 11, 2022
Explainer-Some patients reporting COVID rebounds after taking Pfizer pills
By Michael Erman (Reuters) - More than 2.8 million courses of Pfizer Inc's COVID-19 oral antiviral treatment Paxlovid have been made available at pharmacies around the United States, with the Biden ad...
May 11, 2022
Biden to visit Illinois farm to highlight Russia-driven spike in food prices
By Jarrett Renshaw (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden will seek to highlight how Russia's war on Ukraine has impacted global food prices during a visit to a family farm in Illinois on Wednesday. The...
May 11, 2022
Arizona to resume lethal injections 8 years after ‘botched’ execution
By Brendan O'Brien (Reuters) - Arizona was preparing for its first execution since 2014 on Wednesday, with an inmate convicted of killing a student scheduled to be put to death eight years after the s...
May 11, 2022
U.S. Senate Democrats put abortion-rights bill to the test Wednesday
By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats in the U.S. Senate plan to force a vote on Wednesday on legislation codifying women's rights to abortion nationwide, a protest gesture that is almost ...
May 11, 2022
U.S. House Democrats seek new environmental review of postal delivery contract
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. House of Representatives committee on Wednesday will consider a bill that seeks to invalidate a U.S. Postal Service (USPS) environmental review conduc...
May 11, 2022
Biden considers executive orders, new funds for abortion
By Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden is considering executive orders and other measures to increase access and funding for women if the U.S. Supreme Court votes to overturn the R...
May 11, 2022
Senators rebuke U.S. trade chief over lack of consultation
By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A contingent of six U.S. senators led by Democrats on Tuesday chastised U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai about her handling of negotiations on COVID-19 va...
May 10, 2022
U.S. gun deaths surged 35% in 2020, higher for Black people – CDC
By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) - The rate of U.S. gun deaths surged 35% in 2020 to the highest point since 1994, with especially deadly levels for young Black men, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and...
May 10, 2022
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