Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
U.S. begins returning migrants to Mexican border city under rebooted Trump-era policy
By Lizbeth Diaz MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The United States on Wednesday began returning migrants to the Mexican city of Tijuana in an restart of a Trump-era program that forces asylum seekers to wait f...
Jan 05, 2022
Lawrence Brooks, oldest surviving U.S. veteran who served in World War Two, dies
By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) - Lawrence Brooks, the oldest surviving U.S. veteran who served in World War Two and was referred to by President Joe Biden as "truly the best of America", died on Wednesda...
Jan 05, 2022
CDC advisory panel in favor of Pfizer vaccine booster for ages 12 to 15
By Michael Erman (Reuters) - A panel of outside experts advising the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Wednesday voted to recommend booster shots of Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE's...
Jan 05, 2022
Biden, Harris to travel to Georgia next week to speak on voting rights
(Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will travel to Atlanta on Jan. 11 to speak about voting rights, the White House said on Wednesday. "On Tuesday, January 11, Presid...
Jan 05, 2022
Top Senate Republican signals interest in narrow approach to U.S. election reform
By David Morgan and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As Democrats struggled to move forward on broad new voting rights legislation, the U.S. Senate's top Republican signaled interest on Wednesday ...
Jan 05, 2022
Election officials rebut claims in Republican-led Arizona review of Trump’s 2020 loss
By Nathan Layne (Reuters) - Election officials in Arizona's most populous county found nearly every conclusion in a partisan "audit" of Donald Trump's loss in the 2020 presidential election to be misl...
Jan 05, 2022
Americans fed up with robocalls; complaints jump 25%
By Diane Bartz WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Americans were more annoyed by robocalls and other telemarketing calls last year, lodging a 25% increase in complaints with a federal regulator. The U.S. Federal ...
Jan 05, 2022
Exclusive-Walmart halves paid leave for COVID-positive workers, extends hybrid work guidelines
By Siddharth Cavale and Richa Naidu (Reuters) - Walmart Inc will now provide up to one week of paid time-off if a worker contracts COVID-19, instead of its earlier policy for up to two weeks, accordin...
Jan 05, 2022
Ghislaine Maxwell’s prosecutors seek inquiry into juror’s sexual abuse claim
By Luc Cohen and Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors who last week won Ghislaine Maxwell's conviction for her role in Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuses on Wednesday asked the trial ju...
Jan 05, 2022
U.S. doctors group calls out CDC for ‘confusing’ isolation guidance
(Reuters) - The American Medical Association (AMA) on Wednesday criticized the government's guidelines on quarantine and isolation in the United States, saying the guidance was "confusing" and risked ...
Jan 05, 2022
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