Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Biden administration seeks $32.5 billion in Ukraine and COVID aid -reports
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden's administration is seeking $32.5 billion in additional funding from Congress to aid Ukraine and bolster the U.S. COVID response, U.S. media reports sai...
Mar 03, 2022
Arkansas teachers settle with Allianz over fund debacle
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - A pension fund for teachers in Arkansas has settled with Allianz and dropped its lawsuit over losses in a multibillion-dollar trading debacle at the German insurer's funds arm, a...
Mar 03, 2022
Florida Senate expected to pass 15-week abortion ban
By Gabriella Borter (Reuters) - Florida's Republican-led Senate on Thursday is expected to pass a bill to ban abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, putting the state one step closer to adopting a ges...
Mar 03, 2022
Amazon workers get go-ahead for a second union election in New York -organizer
By Jeffrey Dastin (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc workers at a Staten Island sortation center have been given the greenlight to hold a vote on whether to unionize, according to a labor advocate, in what wo...
Mar 02, 2022
U.S. House panel says Trump may have broken law in bid to overturn election
By Jan Wolfe and Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday said former President Donald Trump may have...
Mar 02, 2022
Texas judge temporarily blocks child abuse probe of transgender youth’s parents
LUBBOCK, Texas (Reuters) - A Texas judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked a state-ordered child welfare investigation of the parents of a 16-year-old transgender girl for providing the teen gender-aff...
Mar 02, 2022
Oath Keeper leader in Alabama pleads guilty to conspiracy in U.S. Capitol attack -DOJ
(Reuters) - The leader of the Alabama chapter of the right-wing Oath Keepers militia group pleaded guilty to criminal charges including conspiracy in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by su...
Mar 02, 2022
Biden speech draws 38.2 million U.S. TV viewers
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -An estimated 38.2 million people watched President Biden's Tuesday night State of the Union speech on U.S. television, an increase from his 2021 address to Congress, according t...
Mar 02, 2022
Texas Republican quits U.S. House race, admits affair with former ISIS war bride
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two-term U.S. Representative Van Taylor on Wednesday withdrew from a Republican primary run-off race, ending his reelection bid after admitting he had an extra-marital affair wi...
Mar 02, 2022
U.S. delays ICBM test-launch in bid to de-escalate Russia nuclear tensions
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military said on Wednesday it will postpone a scheduled test launch of a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile, in an apparent bid to de-escalate tensions af...
Mar 02, 2022
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