Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
New satellite will detect and share CO2 data from individual facilities
(Reuters) - Canadian emissions monitoring company GHGSat on Saturday launched a satellite aimed at detecting carbon dioxide emissions from individual facilities like coal plants and steel mills from s...
Nov 11, 2023
US House Speaker Johnson unveils a two-step stopgap bill – media
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson on Saturday announced a two-step temporary funding measure aimed at averting a partial government shutdown a week from now, U.S...
Nov 11, 2023
Trump backs requests for TV coverage of his federal criminal trial – court filing
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Donald Trump has filed a legal motion backing media requests for live television coverage of his federal trial on charges he conspired to overturn the resu...
Nov 11, 2023
Trump plans sweeping undocumented immigrant roundups, detention camps – report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Donald Trump, if re-elected in 2024, would expand his first-term immigration crackdown to include sweeping roundups of undocumented people who would be hel...
Nov 11, 2023
Iceland evacuates town over concerns of volcanic eruption
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Icelandic authorities have completed the evacuation of 3,000 residents of a town in the southwestern part of the country over concerns of a volcanic eruption after a series of e...
Nov 11, 2023
Mexico’s Acapulco hit by garbage pile-up after deadly hurricane
By Troy Merida ACAPULCO, Mexico (Reuters) - Residents of Acapulco stunned by a devastating hurricane are now battling with another blight trailing in the storm's wake: garbage piling up in streets, fa...
Nov 11, 2023
In very rare move, Pope dismisses conservative US bishop Strickland
By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Pope Francis has dismissed Bishop Joseph E. Strickland of Tyler, Texas, one of his fiercest critics among U.S. Catholic conservatives, a Vatican statement sa...
Nov 11, 2023
US House Republicans eye plan to avert government shutdown as Moody’s warns
By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House of Representatives Republicans are due to unveil a stopgap measure on Saturday aimed at averting a government shutdown, the latest in a series of stan...
Nov 11, 2023
How campaigners’ slayings hurt environmental protection in Colombia
By Oliver Griffin PUERTO GUZMAN, Colombia (Reuters) - Darkness had descended on Colombia's southern Putumayo province one February night last year when gunfire roared through the air, shattering the p...
Nov 11, 2023
Moody’s analyst sees polarization around US budget issues persisting next year
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A top analyst at Moody's said political polarization in the United States will likely complicate budget-making decisions ahead of the 2024 presidential election, which could delay...
Nov 10, 2023
