Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
New York braces for evictions with key renter protection set to lapse
(Reuters) - A ban on housing evictions is set to expire on Saturday in New York, ending a critical economic support put in place at the start of the pandemic and setting the stage for a possible rush ...
Jan 14, 2022
U.S. households can order 4 free COVID-19 tests starting Jan 19 – White House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. households can order four free at-home COVID-19 tests from the website COVIDTests.gov starting on Jan. 19 with shipping expected seven to 12 days after ordering, the White ...
Jan 14, 2022
U.S. court bars Martin Shkreli from pharma industry, orders $64.6 million payment
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. court said on Friday that Martin Shkreli, who famously raised the price of Daraprim, would be ordered to pay $64.6 million and would be barred for life from the pharmaceu...
Jan 14, 2022
Proud Boys leader freed from Washington jail, served time for burning banner at Black church
By Jan Wolfe (Reuters) - A leader of the right-wing Proud Boys group, Enrique Tarrio, was released from jail on Friday after serving four months and a week for burning a Black Lives Matter banner at a...
Jan 14, 2022
Fed scrambled to make sense of Trump’s 2016 election, transcripts show
By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The election of Donald Trump threw Federal Reserve officials into a scramble to determine what it meant for the American economy, the world, and the U.S. cen...
Jan 14, 2022
Republican U.S. Rep Katko, who voted to impeach Trump, will not seek re-election
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Representative John Katko, one of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach then-President Donald Trump on a charge of inciting the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Cap...
Jan 14, 2022
As Omicron fuels surge, U.S. students stage walkouts to protest in-person classes
By Tim McLaughlin and Tyler Clifford BOSTON (Reuters) - Students in Boston and Chicago planned walkouts on Friday to pressure officials to switch to remote learning, as a surge in COVID-19 cases fuele...
Jan 14, 2022
U.S. prosecutors recommend dropping China charges against MIT professor: source
By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) - Prosecutors have recommended that the U.S. Justice Department drop charges against a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor accused of concealing his ties t...
Jan 14, 2022
Ohio Supreme Court strikes down new congressional map as Republican gerrymander
By Joseph Ax (Reuters) -The Ohio Supreme Court on Friday struck down the state's new congressional map for illegally favoring Republicans over Democrats and ordered lawmakers to redraw the lines. The ...
Jan 14, 2022
Burned by COVID supply crunch, hospitals invest in U.S. mask-making
By Lisa Baertlein LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Two days before Christmas, a cargo ship left Mumbai with a mask-making machine bound for Illinois-based OSF HealthCare, which will use the equipment to make i...
Jan 14, 2022
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