Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Self-proclaimed ‘Crocodile of Wall Street’ snagged in big Bitcoin bust
By Raphael Satter WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Heather Morgan is a would-be corporate influencer who raps about entrepreneurship, designs handbags inspired by ketchup squirts, and signs off from her motivat...
Feb 08, 2022
U.S. House steers bill to avert temporary government shutdown toward passage
By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Legislation to avoid a looming U.S. government shutdown advanced toward passage in the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday, as Congress worked against a Fe...
Feb 08, 2022
Analysis-U.S. Supreme Court’s Alabama ruling signals new threat to voting rights law
By Andrew Chung and Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When three federal judges last month blocked Alabama's new Republican-backed map of U.S. congressional districts as likely discriminatory aga...
Feb 08, 2022
New York considers making outdoor dining a permanent fixture
By Tyler Clifford NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York City Council held a hearing on Tuesday to consider a plan to make sidewalk dining - first allowed in 2020 as a temporary measure to help blunt econo...
Feb 08, 2022
Mediator in Purdue Pharma bankruptcy seeks to extend talks to Feb. 16
(Reuters) - A mediator holding talks between members of the Sackler family that own Purdue Pharma and U.S. states opposed to the OxyContin-maker's bankruptcy exit plan requested an extension of the me...
Feb 08, 2022
U.S. CDC stands by K-12 school masking guidance as states relax rules –Walensky
By Julie Steenhuysen and Carl O'Donnell (Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stands by its mask-wearing guidance for public K-12 schools with COVID-19 cases still high natio...
Feb 08, 2022
Lawsuit accuses Harvard of ignoring sexual harassment by professor
By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) - Three female graduate students at Harvard University filed a lawsuit on Tuesday accusing the Ivy League school of ignoring for years the sexual harassment of student...
Feb 08, 2022
Biden supports Congress staffers’ right to unionize, White House says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden supports the right of congressional staffers to unionize, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said on Tuesday. (Reporting by Jarrett Renshaw; Writing ...
Feb 08, 2022
White House: it is clear that Jan 6 was not ‘legitimate political discourse’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House said on Tuesday it was clear to Americans that the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 was not "legitimate political discourse" after the Republican Party...
Feb 08, 2022
U.S. vice presidents husband ushered out of event after reported security threat
(Reuters) - Doug Emhoff, the husband of U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, was ushered out of an event at a Washington, D.C., school by security forces after a security threat was reported on Tuesday....
Feb 08, 2022
