Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Lawsuit accuses Washington-area police of involvement in sex-trafficking ring
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A woman has accused two former members of a Virginia police department of sexually assaulting her as part of a deal to protect the leader of a human traffickin...
Dec 17, 2021
‘Tidal wave’: Omicron could put U.S. COVID-19 surge into overdrive
By Joseph Ax and Barbara Goldberg (Reuters) - Two years into the coronavirus pandemic, the United States is confronting another dark winter, with the red-hot Omicron variant threatening to further inf...
Dec 17, 2021
Sadness, anger for Amazon workers who died during tornado
EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. (Reuters) - Families and friends of six workers who died after a tornado tore into an Amazon warehouse expressed sadness and anger as they said final farewells to the victims in a s...
Dec 17, 2021
Southwest CEO tests positive for COVID-19 after Senate hearing — airline
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Southwest Chief Executive Gary Kelly tested positive for COVID-19 after appearing at a U.S. Senate hearing on Wednesday, a spokesperson for the airline confir...
Dec 17, 2021
Starbucks union store in Buffalo, New York is certified – NLRB
By Hilary Russ NEW YORK (Reuters) -Starbucks Corp will be headed to the bargaining table at its first officially unionized corporate-owned U.S. location after the National Labor Relations Board on Fri...
Dec 17, 2021
U.S. Postal Service, NAACP reach settlement on election mail
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) and NAACP have reached a settlement in a lawsuit over election mail. USPS agreed for the 2022 mid-term congressional election to take the same ext...
Dec 17, 2021
U.S. schools boost security after online posts warn of Friday violence
By Julia Harte (Reuters) - U.S. schools and law enforcement authorities responded to vague warnings of violence at schools on Friday with bulletins to parents, heightened security and, in a few cases,...
Dec 17, 2021
U.S. offers $1.5 billion to help provide school meals during supply chain crunch
By Christopher Walljasper CHICAGO (Reuters) - The U.S. Agriculture Department is providing up to $1.5 billion to help school meal programs weather the supply chain crunch, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vi...
Dec 17, 2021
Minnesota ex-cop testifies at trial over killing of Daunte Wright
By Nathan Layne (Reuters) - Kimberly Potter, the white former Minnesota police officer who killed Black motorist Daunte Wright in April after claiming she mistook her handgun for her Taser, took the s...
Dec 17, 2021
‘I’m counting on you,’ Biden tells Black college grads in South Carolina
By Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden renewed pledges to protect voting rights and reform law enforcement at a commencement speech at South Carolina State University, a h...
Dec 17, 2021
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