Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Donald Trump Jr. agrees to meet with House panel probing Jan. 6 Capitol attack -New York Times
(Reuters) - Donald Trump Jr. has agreed to meet soon with the U.S. House of Representatives panel that is probing the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol in 2021, the New York Times reported Thursday ci...
Apr 21, 2022
Scientists breed threatened Florida coral species in step toward reef restoration
By Brian Ellsworth and Julio-Cesar Chavez (Reuters) - Scientists have successfully bred a threatened species of coral as part of a project that hopes to restore damaged reefs off the coast of Florida ...
Apr 21, 2022
New York City’s Central Park a ‘lab’ to study climate change
By Christine Kiernan and Aleksandra Michalska NEW YORK (Reuters) - Central Park, New York City's 843-acre green lung created in 1858, is now a climate change laboratory that researchers hope will help...
Apr 21, 2022
U.S. Vice President Harris’ chief of staff leaving, will be replaced by top adviser
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris' chief of staff is leaving the administration and will be replaced by top adviser Lorraine Voles, Harris said on Thursday, the latest shake-up i...
Apr 21, 2022
Cuba-U.S. talks in Washington ‘focused on migration’ -State Dept
By Simon Lewis WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. and Cuban officials met in Washington for talks about migration on Thursday as the United States seeks to quell rising numbers of people attempting to cross i...
Apr 21, 2022
Leader of push to fund Trump’s border wall pleads guilty to fraud, tax charges
NEW YORK (Reuters) -A decorated U.S. Air Force veteran who helped lead a fundraising campaign to aid the building of former President Donald Trump's promised wall along the U.S.-Mexican border pleaded...
Apr 21, 2022
U.S. to host Ukraine-focused defense talks in Germany on April 26
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will host Ukraine-focused defense talks with allies at Ramstein Air Base in Germany on April 26, the Pentagon said on Thursday. "The goal is ...
Apr 21, 2022
U.S. judge temporarily blocks enforcement of Kentucky’s new abortion law
(Reuters) - A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked Kentucky officials from enforcing a sweeping new abortion law that Planned Parenthood said would force abortion clinics to stop offering the...
Apr 21, 2022
Florida Republicans pass congressional map after sit-in protest by Black lawmakers
By Joseph Ax (Reuters) - Republicans in Florida's House on Thursday approved a new congressional map backed by Governor Ron DeSantis that gives the party a major advantage in November's elections whil...
Apr 21, 2022
White House adviser Singh suggests U.S. could lower tariffs on Chinese goods
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A White House adviser on Thursday suggested the United States could lower tariffs imposed on a host of Chinese goods such as bicycles or apparel that were not strategic in natur...
Apr 21, 2022
