Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Key dates leading up to the close of Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex abuse trial
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jury deliberations are expected to continue on Tuesday in the sex abuse trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, the British socialite charged by U.S. prosecutors with recruiting ...
Dec 21, 2021
Jury to resume deliberations in Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex abuse trial
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) - The jury in Ghislaine Maxwell's sex abuse trial is expected to resume deliberations on Tuesday, after three weeks of testimony from women who said the British sociali...
Dec 21, 2021
As Omicron surges, Biden to expand testing and warn unvaccinated
By Jarrett Renshaw and Ahmed Aboulenein WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Biden administration will open federal COVID-19 testing sites in New York City this week and buy 500 million at-home rapid tests that...
Dec 21, 2021
Pentagon stops short of banning military membership in extremist groups
By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon stopped short on Monday of creating a list of extremist groups that military members cannot join and declined to say explicitly wheth...
Dec 20, 2021
U.S. files action to return $150 Million in alleged embezzled funds to Sony
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States filed a civil forfeiture complaint on Monday to return more than $154 million in funds that were allegedly stolen from a subsidiary of Tokyo-based Sony Corp an...
Dec 20, 2021
Texas health officials record first death related to Omicron variant – ABC News
(Reuters) - Health officials in Texas announced on Monday the state recorded the first death related to the Omicron COVID-19 variant, ABC News reported citing Harris County health officials. It is bel...
Dec 20, 2021
Alex Jones of Infowars to invoke right not to testify to U.S. Capitol riot panel
By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Alex Jones, the conspiracy theorist and founder of the right-wing website Infowars, said on Monday said he will invoke his right under the Fifth Amendment of the U....
Dec 20, 2021
U.S. families fear hunger after child-tax credit expires
By Moira Warburton and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The phone calls to Yvonka Hall's health nonprofit in northeastern Ohio from families begging for help feeding their children started in Marc...
Dec 20, 2021
Omicron variant accounts for 73% of U.S. infections – CDC
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Omicron variant of coronavirus accounts for 73% of U.S. coronavirus infections based on sequencing data for the week ended Dec. 18, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Pr...
Dec 20, 2021
Factbox: U.S. climate-change fight threatened as Manchin rejects Biden’s bill
By Timothy Gardner and Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Joe Manchin's rejection of President Joe Biden's $1.75 trillion social spending bill threatens to scuttle hundreds of billi...
Dec 20, 2021
