Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Congress probe: U.S. military landlord put families at risk even after fraud plea
By Joshua Schneyer and M.B. Pell (Reuters) - Balfour Beatty Communities, one of the U.S. military's largest private landlords, continues placing the health of service members and their families at ris...
Apr 26, 2022
U.S. to widen COVID antiviral pill distribution
By Ahmed Aboulenein WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden's administration is aiming to expand access to COVID-19 oral antiviral treatments like Pfizer Inc's Paxlovid by doubling the number of lo...
Apr 26, 2022
U.S. ditches Trump-era policies for Arctic Alaska oil reserve
By Yereth Rosen ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - The Biden administration on Monday overturned a controversial Trump-era policy that would have opened new swathes of Arctic Alaska to oil development. The...
Apr 25, 2022
California desalination plant suffers setback with recommendation for denial
By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) -A proposed California desalination plant that would produce 50 million gallons of drinking water per day failed a crucial regulatory hurdle on Monday, likely dooming a proj...
Apr 25, 2022
Michigan police officer identified in fatal shooting of Black man
(Reuters) - Authorities on Monday identified Christopher Schurr as the police officer who fatally shot Patrick Lyoya, a 26-year-old Black man, during a traffic stop in Grand Rapids, Michigan, earlier ...
Apr 25, 2022
Nektar to cut over 500 jobs following cancer drug failure
(Reuters) - Nektar Therapeutics said on Monday it would lay off about 70% of its workforce, or more than 500 employees, after stopping the development of its key cancer drug earlier in the month. The ...
Apr 25, 2022
U.S. judge intends to temporarily block plan to lift COVID border restrictions for migrants
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge in Louisiana said on Monday that he intends to rule that U.S. authorities cannot immediately proceed with plans to lift pandemic restrictions that empowered U.S. a...
Apr 25, 2022
U.S. Supreme Court allows high school admissions policy in race dispute
By Andrew Chung and Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to block an elite Virginia public high school's admissions policy - designed to increase its racial ...
Apr 25, 2022
New Mexico sheriff releases ‘Rust’ shooting case files, no decision on charges yet
By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A New Mexico county sheriff on Monday made public case files from his department's investigation of last year's shooting death on the set of the film "Rust" but...
Apr 25, 2022
White House: More sanctions against Russia likely
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. is likely to impose more economic sanctions against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine and "no one is safe from our sanctions," White House press secretary Jen Psaki s...
Apr 25, 2022
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