Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Walgreens, Rite Aid to start giving second COVID-19 boosters in U.S.
(Reuters) - Drugstore chains Walgreens Boots Alliance and Rite Aid said on Wednesday they would start offering second booster doses of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, after the shots were cleared in the Unite...
Mar 30, 2022
Oklahoma’s Republican governor signs transgender sports ban
By Maria Caspani (Reuters) - Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt on Wednesday signed a Republican-backed bill banning transgender athletes from girls' school sports, adding to a list of states that have pas...
Mar 30, 2022
U.S. residents to get $3.2 billion to lower home energy costs
By Nandita Bose and Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Biden administration will make available nearly $3.2 billion from the bipartisan infrastructure law to help Americans lower home energy c...
Mar 30, 2022
California task force votes to limit eligibility for any slavery reparations
(Reuters) - A California task force on reparations recommends limiting any government payments to Black people whose ancestors were in the United States in the 19th century, rather than giving money t...
Mar 30, 2022
Biden could sign defense production authority for battery minerals -source
By Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden could invoke a Cold War-era defense law as soon as this week to encourage the domestic production of minerals needed to make the bat...
Mar 30, 2022
White House launches COVID.gov amid push for more funds, booster shots
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Biden administration on Wednesday launched a new website to provide a clearinghouse of information on COVID-19 as part of a continuing effort to prepare to live with the cor...
Mar 30, 2022
Collins becomes first Republican to back U.S. Supreme Court pick Jackson
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senator Susan Collins on Wednesday became the first Republican to declare support for President Joe Biden's Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, further boosting her pro...
Mar 30, 2022
CVS Health reaches $484 million opioid settlement with Florida
(Reuters) - CVS Health Corp said on Wednesday it had entered into an agreement with the state of Florida to resolve claims related toprescriptions for opioid medications for $484 million to be paid ov...
Mar 30, 2022
In Alabama, infrastructure dollars revive a ‘zombie’ highway
By Andy Sullivan PALMERDALE, Ala. (Reuters) - North of Birmingham, a gravel road bed slices through a series of steep ridges, part of a stalled effort to carve a 52-mile freeway around the rural fring...
Mar 30, 2022
Ex-U.S. Marine launches hunger strike in Russian jail – parents
LONDON (Reuters) - Former U.S. Marine Trevor Reed has begun a hunger strike in a Russian jail to protest at being put in solitary confinement and not receiving proper medical care despite fears he has...
Mar 30, 2022
