Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
First all-private astronaut team aboard space station heads for splashdown
By Steve Gorman (Reuters) - The first all-private astronaut crew to fly aboard the International Space Station (ISS) headed for splashdown Monday off the coast of Florida, wrapping up a two-week missi...
Apr 25, 2022
Analysis-U.S. trucking downturn foreshadows possible economic gloom
By Lisa Baertlein (Reuters) - Craig Fuller monitors millions of transactions between U.S. truckers and their customers as chief executive of transportation data company FreightWaves - and he does not ...
Apr 25, 2022
U.S. Supreme Court to tackle football coach’s on-field prayers
By Lawrence Hurley and Andrew Chung (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday addresses the religious rights of government employees as it weighs an appeal by a Christian former public high school ...
Apr 25, 2022
Exclusive-Trump weighs how deeply to dig into his war chest for November elections
By Jarrett Renshaw and Alexandra Ulmer (Reuters) - Former President Donald Trump is weighing how much to spend and how many Republican candidates to fund in this year's elections as he faces pressure ...
Apr 25, 2022
Johnny Depp to face more questions from ex-wife’s lawyers in defamation case
By Lisa Richwine (Reuters) - Hollywood star Johnny Depp returns to the witness stand on Monday to answer additional questions from attorneys for ex-wife Amber Heard in front of a jury that will decide...
Apr 25, 2022
U.S. Senate set to confirm Bedoya as FTC commissioner
By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Alvaro Bedoya will be confirmed to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission this week, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said on Sunday, giving the agency enough vo...
Apr 24, 2022
Orrin Hatch, the genteel Republican senator, is dead at 88
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Orrin Hatch, the gentlemanly long-serving Republican U.S. senator from Utah who championed deep tax cuts, an anti-terrorism law and a children's health program whi...
Apr 23, 2022
Florida governor signs bill stripping Disney of self-governing authority
By Maria Caspani and Dawn Chmielewski (Reuters) - Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on Friday signed a bill that strips Walt Disney Co of self-governing authority at its Orlando-area parks in retaliation ...
Apr 23, 2022
WHO says at least one child has died after increase of acute hepatitis cases in children
(Reuters) - The World Health Organization said on Saturday that at least one child death had been reported following an increase of acute hepatitis of unknown origin in children, and that at least 169...
Apr 23, 2022
Wildfires explode in drought-hit New Mexico
By Andrew Hay TAOS, N.M. (Reuters) - Wind-driven wildfires exploded in size in northern New Mexico, destroying multiple homes and forcing hundreds to flee mountain villages as blazes raged early in th...
Apr 23, 2022
