Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Biden administration holds electric vehicle industry meeting with Musk, Barra
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Biden administration said senior officials held a meeting Wednesday with major automotive leaders including Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk and General Motors Chief Executiv...
Apr 06, 2022
U.S. road rage shootings soared during pandemic, gun control group says
By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) - One person was shot on the road in the United States every 17 hours in 2021, according to a new tally of road rage violence. In all, 131 people were killed and 391 wounded...
Apr 06, 2022
McKinsey ex-partner gets 2 years prison for insider trading on Goldman purchase
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former McKinsey & Co partner who helped advise Goldman Sachs Group Inc on its recent purchase of fintech lender GreenSky Inc was sentenced on Wednesday to tw...
Apr 06, 2022
U.S. House holds former Trump aides Navarro and Scavino in contempt
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A majority of the Democratic-led U.S. House of Representatives approved "contempt of Congress" charges on Wednesday against Peter Navarro and Daniel Scavino, two former aides to...
Apr 06, 2022
Kentucky Governor Beshear vetoes transgender sports ban
(Reuters) - Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear on Wednesday vetoed a bill passed by the state's Republican-dominated legislature that would have banned transgender girls from participating in girls' sport...
Apr 06, 2022
U.S. EPA soon to announce decision on small refinery biofuel waivers – sources
By Stephanie Kelly NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will announce a decision as early as Thursday on numerous pending applications from small fuel producers seeking to be ...
Apr 06, 2022
For first time, a U.S. Capitol riot defendant is acquitted
By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal judge on Wednesday issued the first acquittal in a criminal trial stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, saying prosecutors failed to...
Apr 06, 2022
U.S. VP Harris’ communications director tests positive for COVID -White House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris' communications director tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday, the White House said. The director, Jamal Simmons, was in close contact to ...
Apr 06, 2022
U.S. man convicted of sex trafficking for extorting New York college students
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. man was convicted of sex trafficking and other crimes on Wednesday for coercing a group of students at Sarah Lawrence College in New York state to perform unpa...
Apr 06, 2022
Union election petitions surge as U.S. workers organize
By Hilary Russ NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. workers and labor groups filed 57% more petitions to be represented by unions in the last six months as high-profile organizing campaigns at Starbucks Corp, Am...
Apr 06, 2022
