Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
U.S.’ Blinken to meet UAE leader in Morocco to shore up ties
By Humeyra Pamuk RABAT (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will meet the de facto ruler of the United Arab Emirates in Morocco on Tuesday in a bid to ease disagreements over oil, Iran a...
Mar 29, 2022
U.S. trial begins for member of Islamic State ‘Beatles’ cell
By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An alleged member of a group of Islamic State militants that beheaded American hostages in Iraq and Syria, nicknamed "The Beatles" for their British accents, faces ...
Mar 29, 2022
Why the time is right to sell a home in the U.S
By Chris Taylor NEW YORK (Reuters) - For the past few years, Lee Adler kept track of the U.S. real estate market, and things just kept going up - and up. So it seemed an optimal time to sell his state...
Mar 28, 2022
Blue Origin’s 4th astro-tourism flight set to launch without big names
By Steve Gorman (Reuters) - The fourth commercial flight of Jeff Bezos' space tourism venture Blue Origin, offering short suborbital joyrides to well-heeled thrill-seekers and celebrity guests, was du...
Mar 28, 2022
U.S. House riot panel recommends contempt charge for two more ex-Trump aides
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. congressional committee probing the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol voted unanimously on Monday to seek "contempt of Congress" charges ...
Mar 28, 2022
U.S. Capitol riot defendant in talks to settle case – filing
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A man accused of attacking at least three police officers with a chemical irritant during the riot at the Capitol last year asked a judge on Monday to postpone...
Mar 28, 2022
Biden budget calls for $100 million for New York City tunnel project
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Transportation Department budget released on Monday calls for an initial $100 million for a $12.3-billion project that aims to build a new railway tunnel between New Yo...
Mar 28, 2022
Olympics-Biden invites Tokyo, Beijing athletes to White House in unique event
(Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden has invited more than 800 Olympians and Paralympians from the Tokyo Summer and Beijing Winter Games to the White House in early May, the U.S. Olympic and Paralympi...
Mar 28, 2022
Top U.S. Senate Republican rejects Biden budget as inadequate on defense
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell rejected President Joe Biden's budget request on Monday as a reflection of "far-left values" that falls "woefully short" on defense...
Mar 28, 2022
President Biden pitches minimum tax on billionaires in new budget
By Pete Schroeder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Monday proposed imposing a minimum tax on the nation's richest people to challenge the "indefensibly low tax rates" the wealthy can engineer...
Mar 28, 2022
