Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Sarah Palin testifies she felt ‘powerless’ against New York Times
(Corrects to add dropped word in Palin's title in first paragraph to "vice presidential candidate" from "presidential candidate") By Jody Godoy and Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sarah Palin sa...
Feb 10, 2022
U.S. Congress passes ban on forced arbitration of worker sex abuse claims
By Moira Warburton and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Thursday approved a bill that would ban companies from forcing employees who allege sexual assault or harassment to settl...
Feb 10, 2022
Counterfeit parts present in many U.S. nuclear power plants -inspector general
By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Most, if not all, U.S. nuclear power plants contain counterfeit or fraudulent parts, potentially increasing the risk of a safety failure, the inspector genera...
Feb 10, 2022
Jan. 6 investigators find gaps in White House call logs -NYT
(Reuters) - The U.S. House committee probing the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol has found gaps in official White House telephone logs on the day of the deadly riot, with few records of calls by th...
Feb 10, 2022
Rights groups urge Biden to repudiate racist U.S. Supreme Court rulings
By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Civil rights groups on Thursday asked President Joe Biden's administration to disavow century-old Supreme Court rulings suffused with racist language that gav...
Feb 10, 2022
Biden says consumer inflation report shows budgets of Americans are ‘being stretched’
(Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden said the January consumer price index report issued on Thursday was a reminder that the budgets of Americans are under real strain, adding that his administration ...
Feb 10, 2022
U.S. House launches probe into Trump’s White House records
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. House panel is investigating former President Donald Trump's handling of White House records after 15 boxes of official documents were retrieved from his private Florida p...
Feb 10, 2022
‘Nobody is ready:’ Many U.S. cities lack resources to chase $1 trln infrastructure windfall
By Andy Sullivan (Reuters) - Erie, Pennsylvania could use a facelift. The lakefront city of 100,000 has been adding jobs and businesses downtown, but it remains saddled with vestiges of its industrial...
Feb 10, 2022
Ex-National Guard member could get over two years for assaulting police in U.S. Capitol riot
By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A former National Guard member who served in Iraq will on Thursday learn his punishment for punching two police officers during the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S...
Feb 10, 2022
How a China-based dealmaker got shell company for Trump’s deal off the ground
By Echo Wang and Michael Berens (Reuters) - A China-based financier, once reprimanded by U.S. regulators and barred from taking his company public, played a bigger role than is publicly known in the s...
Feb 10, 2022
