Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
CNN closes U.S. offices to most workers as COVID-19 cases spike
(Reuters) - CNN is closing its U.S. offices to nonessential employees as COVID-19 cases increase, the network's chief media correspondent, Brian Stelter, tweeted on Saturday. CNN offices will be close...
Dec 18, 2021
U.S. senator gets vote on Nord Stream 2 sanctions, in deal over envoy approvals
By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican U.S. Senator Ted Cruz will get a vote in January on his bill to slap sanctions on Russia's Nord Stream 2 pipeline in a deal struck with Democrats i...
Dec 18, 2021
Citations over U.S. vaccine mandate could begin in early January
By Jason Lange WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. federal agency on Saturday said it could start issuing citations to companies as soon as Jan. 10 for failure to comply with a nationwide mandate that they ...
Dec 18, 2021
Jury may weigh whether Ghislaine Maxwell avoided knowledge of Epstein’s acts, judge says
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) - The jury in Ghislaine Maxwell's sex abuse trial may weigh whether the British socialite "consciously avoided" knowledge of Jeffrey Epstein's alleged encounters with t...
Dec 18, 2021
U.S. Air Force says two crew supporting Blinken’s foreign trip tested positive
By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two U.S. Air Force crew members supporting U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken's travel last week to the United Kingdom and Southeast Asia have tested positiv...
Dec 18, 2021
U.S. Senate confirms ex-Chicago Mayor Emanuel to be ambassador to Japan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate early Saturday confirmed President Joe Biden's nominee Rahm Emanuel to be ambassador to Japan, despite questions about the murder of a Black teenager by a white ...
Dec 18, 2021
U.S. appeals court reinstates COVID-19 vaccine-or-test rule for workplaces
By Tom Hals WILMINGTON, Del (Reuters) -A U.S. appeals court on Friday reinstated a nationwide vaccine-or-testing COVID-19 mandate for large businesses, a federal government rule that covers 80 million...
Dec 17, 2021
Holmes ‘went down with the ship,’ lawyer tells Theranos jury
By Jody Godoy SAN JOSE, Calif. (Reuters) - Elizabeth Holmes' defense attorney made his final argument to jurors on Friday, saying the Theranos founder was "devoted to her mission" at the blood-testing...
Dec 17, 2021
Ghislaine Maxwell says she will not testify in sex abuse trial
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Ghislaine Maxwell said on Friday she will not testify in her own defense in her criminal sex abuse trial. Maxwell, 59, has pleaded not guilty to eight counts of sex trafficking an...
Dec 17, 2021
Florida man who threw plank, extinguisher at police gets longest Capitol riot sentence
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal judge sentenced a U.S. Capitol rioter to more than five years in prison on Friday on charges that he threw a wooden plank and a fire extinguisher at police during the ...
Dec 17, 2021
On Air Now
Fri Sep 11
Sheboygan, WI, USA
63°FWind/Dir: 18 MPH-SSW
Humidity: 83%
