Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
U.S. preps for another record-breaking rise in migrant arrests at Mexico border
By Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. border officials are preparing for as many as 9,000 border arrests per day by the spring, according to two Department of Homeland Security officials, which wo...
Jan 27, 2022
Milwaukee police hold four people in connection with mass homicide
(Reuters) - Milwaukee police are holding four people as part of the investigation into the shooting deaths of six people inside a home over the weekend, the city's police chief said on Thursday. Respo...
Jan 27, 2022
Accused Michigan school shooter will pursue insanity defense: court filing
By Rami Ayyub (Reuters) - The Michigan teenager charged with first-degree murder in the deadliest U.S. school shooting of 2021 will assert an insanity defense, his lawyers wrote in a court notice file...
Jan 27, 2022
Retiring U.S. Justice Breyer to appear with Biden at White House
By Andrew Chung and Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer will appear together on Thursday at the White House to deliver remarks abou...
Jan 27, 2022
Porn star Stormy Daniels testifies ex-lawyer Michael Avenatti ‘stole from me’
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Adult film actress Stormy Daniels told jurors on Thursday that her former lawyer Michael Avenatti "stole from me and lied to me," as she testified at Avenatti's crimin...
Jan 27, 2022
Amazon, Whole Foods can be sued by murderer rejected for delivery job
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge said Amazon.com Inc and its Whole Foods unit can be sued over the refusal to hire a convicted murderer who claimed to be rehabilitated after ne...
Jan 27, 2022
Rescue crews search for 38 missing at sea after boat capsized off Florida coast
By Brian Ellsworth MIAMI (Reuters) - Rescue crews searched off Florida's coast on Thursday for survivors lost at sea after their boat capsized over the weekend in an ill-fated human smuggling attempt....
Jan 27, 2022
U.S. announces 20,000 additional H-2B visas -statement
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government said on Thursday it would grant an additional 20,000 H-2B visas for the first half of the fiscal year, in an attempt to ease the U.S. labor crunch. The visas...
Jan 27, 2022
Biden urges Congress to immediately recognize Equal Rights Amendment
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday called on Congress to immediately act to enshrine the Equal Rights Amendment in the U.S. Constitution and formally protect women's rights de...
Jan 27, 2022
U.S. unveils plan to improve cyber defenses for water utilities
By Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Thursday unveiled a plan to beef up cybersecurity in the nation's water sector, an extension of its efforts to thwart attacks against critical...
Jan 27, 2022
