Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thomas is discharged from hospital -Supreme Court
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who was hospitalized with flu-like symptoms last week, was discharged from the hospital on Friday morning, the Supreme Court said. Th...
Mar 25, 2022
U.S. plans to close, scale back four immigrant detention centers, document shows
By Ted Hesson and Mica Rosenberg WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is planning to close a troubled detention center in Alabama and will significantly scale back the...
Mar 25, 2022
Amazon workers in New York begin voting in union election
By Danielle Kaye and Doyinsola Oladipo NEW YORK (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc workers at the company's JFK8 Staten Island warehouse started casting ballots on Friday on whether to form a union as labor o...
Mar 25, 2022
Biden heads to Poland, with military support high on agenda
By Jarrett Renshaw RZESZOW, Poland (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden landed in Rzeszow, Poland, on Friday to get a firsthand look at international efforts to help some of the millions of Ukrainian ...
Mar 25, 2022
Key Democratic senator Manchin to vote for Supreme Court nominee Jackson
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic Senator Joe Manchin on Friday said he would vote to confirm U.S. Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, signaling that she will have the votes to overcome wides...
Mar 25, 2022
U.S., NATO contingency planning for possible Russian attack -White House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and its NATO allies are doing contingency planning for any possible Russian attack on NATO territory, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said ...
Mar 25, 2022
Minneapolis teachers in tentative deal to end weeks-long strike
(Reuters) - The Minneapolis public school district said early on Friday it had reached a tentative deal with the city's teachers union to end a strike that has kept some 30,000 students out of classes...
Mar 25, 2022
Costs of going unvaccinated in America are mounting for workers and companies
By Joshua Schneyer (Reuters) - Nearly a year after COVID vaccines became freely available in the U.S., one fourth of American adults remain unvaccinated, and a picture of the economic cost of vaccine ...
Mar 25, 2022
Republican vetoes of transgender sports bans mark a rare split in culture wars
By James Oliphant and Maria Caspani (Reuters) - Republican governors in Utah and Indiana this week rejected legislation banning transgender athletes from competing in girls' sports, pushing back again...
Mar 25, 2022
For a California cafe, a new lease is hope after two bad years
By Ann Saphir OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) - Last month, not quite two years after the COVID-19 pandemic sent the U.S. and world economies into their steepest downturn in decades, Chris and Amy Hillyard ...
Mar 25, 2022
