Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Walgreens, drugmakers blame others for San Francisco’s opioid crisis
By Dietrich Knauth (Reuters) - Pharmacy chain Walgreens Boots Alliance and other defendants on Tuesday said they were not to blame for the opioid crisis in San Francisco, and that they acted responsib...
Apr 26, 2022
SpaceX set to launch space station’s next astronaut crew for NASA
By Joe Skipper and Steve Gorman CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - Elon Musk's rocket company SpaceX was due to launch the next long-duration astronaut crew to the International Space Station (ISS) for ...
Apr 26, 2022
Identity check contractor ID.me fires dozens on fraud team as Congress probes
By Paresh Dave OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) - A major U.S. government contractor of identity verification technology that is under investigation by Congress has fired 39 employees over the past week for ...
Apr 26, 2022
Three in four Americans back arms shipments to Ukraine -Reuters/Ipsos
By Jason Lange WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Seventy-three percent of Americans support U.S. efforts to supply Ukraine with weapons, the highest level of support since Russia invaded its neighbor in February...
Apr 26, 2022
Trump’s $10,000-a-day fine for ignoring subpoena kicks in today -NY judge
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former President Donald Trump will have to pay a fine of $10,000 per day starting on Tuesday until he complies with a subpoena from the state attorney general probing...
Apr 26, 2022
Pfizer, BioNTech file for U.S. authorization of COVID-19 booster shot for children
(Reuters) - Pfizer Inc and its partner BioNTech SE said on Tuesday that they had submitted an application to the U.S. health regulator for the emergency use authorization of their COVID-19 booster sho...
Apr 26, 2022
U.S. issues hazard alert letter to Amazon after fatal warehouse collapse
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued a hazard alert letter to Amazon.com Inc on Tuesday after six contractors were fatally injured and another was sever...
Apr 26, 2022
U.S. lawmakers ask ConocoPhillips about gas leak in Alaska
By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three Democratic U.S. lawmakers asked the head of ConocoPhillips for more information about a month-old natural gas leak from an oilfield in Alaska and implic...
Apr 26, 2022
Exclusive-Food distributor SpartanNash attracts acquisition interest -sources
By Svea Herbst-Bayliss BOSTON (Reuters) - United Natural Foods Inc and Oak Street Real Estate Capital are separately working on bids for U.S. food distributor SpartanNash Co, people familiar the matte...
Apr 26, 2022
Key U.S. senator criticizes Blinken for failing to condemn Turkish jailing of philanthropist
By Humeyra Pamuk and Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The influential chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee criticized Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday for failin...
Apr 26, 2022
