Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Exclusive-Local election chief threatened by Republican leader seeking illegal access to voting equipment
By Nathan Layne (Reuters) - A local Republican Party leader in North Carolina threatened to get a county elections director fired or have her pay cut unless she helped him gain illegal access to votin...
Apr 23, 2022
Rugby-Former Bok flanker Wannenburg killed in car accident in US
(Reuters) - Former Springbok loose-forward Pedrie Wannenburg has been killed in a car accident in Texas, his former South African franchise the Bulls said on Saturday. Wannenburg, 41, played 20 times ...
Apr 23, 2022
U.S. FAA apologizes for failing to alert Capitol police over parachute jump
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) apologized late Friday for failing to provide advance notification to the U.S. Capitol Police of a small airplane flight that prompted ...
Apr 22, 2022
Wildfires widespread in parched U.S. Southwest
By Andrew Hay (Reuters) - An unusually large number of wildfires burned across the U.S. Southwest on Friday as a decades-long drought combined with abundant dry vegetation to raise concerns the region...
Apr 22, 2022
Voting rights groups sue over new Florida congressional maps
By Jonathan Allen (Reuters) - Several voting rights groups filed a lawsuit on Friday challenging Florida's new congressional map, saying it unfairly diluted the voting power of Black residents to bene...
Apr 22, 2022
Guns became leading killer of U.S. children, teens in 2020, analysis shows
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More children and teenagers in the United States were killed by guns than any other cause in 2020 year, according to a mortality analysis by researchers from the University of M...
Apr 22, 2022
Two people shot near preparatory school in Washington, D.C., police say
(Reuters) - Two people were shot near a college preparatory school in Washington, D.C., on Friday, police said. There was no immediate word on the condition of the victims. (Reporting by Dan Whitcomb)
Apr 22, 2022
Americans back flexible approach on masks, but eager to move on from COVID-Reuters/Ipsos
By Jason Lange WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Most Americans support a flexible approach to the lingering COVID-19 pandemic, with cities reimposing mask mandates when cases surge, even as a growing number are...
Apr 22, 2022
Republican Party is ‘the MAGA party now,’ Biden says after McCarthy audio’s release
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden took an unusually harsh swipe at his Republican opponents during Earth Day remarks on Friday, calling their party the "MAGA party," a reference to forme...
Apr 22, 2022
COVID-19 third leading cause of death again in 2021- U.S. study
(Reuters) - COVID-19 was the third leading cause of death in the United States for the second year in a row in 2021, with death rates rising for most age groups, a government study showed on Friday. C...
Apr 22, 2022
