Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Four women join CFTC in U.S. Senate vote hailed as historic
By Pete Schroeder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Four women will take seats on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, returning the derivatives regulator to full strength, after a unanimous U.S. Senate vot...
Mar 29, 2022
FDA green lights second booster of Pfizer/BioNTech, Moderna COVID shot for older Americans
By Michael Erman (Reuters) - U.S. regulators on Tuesday authorized a second booster dose of the two most commonly used COVID-19 vaccines for people age 50 and older, given data showing waning immunity...
Mar 29, 2022
U.S. to unveil revised fuel economy regulations on Friday — officials
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Transportation Department on Friday plans to unveil revised tougher fuel economy requirements reversing the prior administration's rollback, officials said. In August, ...
Mar 29, 2022
Wildfire threat puts parts of Texas, U.S. Plains on alert
(Reuters) - The potential for significant wildfires fueled by parched vegetation in parts of Texas and the U.S. Plains put the region on high alert on Tuesday as gusty winds and bone-dry humidity were...
Mar 29, 2022
Omicron sub-variant BA.2 makes up about 55% of COVID variants in U.S. – CDC
(Reuters) - The BA.2 sub-variant of Omicron was estimated to be more than half or 54.9% of the coronavirus variants circulating in the United States as of March 26, the U.S. Centers for Disease Contro...
Mar 29, 2022
Biden to make lynching a U.S. hate crime with signing of Emmett Till bill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden on Tuesday will sign into law the first federal legislation that would make lynching a federal hate crime after the U.S. Senate passed the bill by unanimous ...
Mar 29, 2022
U.S. Senate to vote Tuesday to advance Cook’s Fed nomination
By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Tuesday is set to vote to bring President Joe Biden's nomination of economist Lisa Cook to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors to the chamb...
Mar 29, 2022
White House logs show over 7-hr gap in Trump calls on Jan. 6 -report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White House records show a gap of more than seven hours in former President Donald Trump's official phone calls the day of the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, T...
Mar 29, 2022
U.S. Representative Don Young, long-serving Republican, to lie in state in Capitol
By Moira Warburton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The body of U.S. Representative Don Young of Alaska, who was the longest-serving Republican member of Congress of any era when he died this month, will lie in...
Mar 29, 2022
Biden to broach Russia’s war in Ukraine with Singapore PM
By Alexandra Alper WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden plans to discuss Russia's invasion of Ukraine and China's role in the Indo-Pacific with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong of Singapore a...
Mar 29, 2022
