Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Exclusive: California probes Google’s treatment of Black female workers
By Paresh Dave (Reuters) - California's civil rights regulator is investigating Google's treatment of Black female workers following alleged incidents of harassment and discrimination, according to tw...
Dec 17, 2021
Biden farm debt relief plan to exclude thousands of minority farmers, data shows
By Leah Douglas and Christopher Walljasper WASHINGTON/CHICAGO (Reuters) - The latest version of the Biden administration's plan to forgive billions of dollars in farm debt - initially targeted at farm...
Dec 17, 2021
Defense case in Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex abuse trial enters second day
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) - Ghislaine Maxwell's defense lawyers on Friday will once again attempt to persuade jurors in the British socialite's sex abuse trial that the accounts of her four accu...
Dec 17, 2021
Despite bonanza, aid trickles slowly to U.S. homeless students
By Daniel Trotta and Richard Cowan LOS ANGELES/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Frank Hardy, 18, has been homeless for the past eight years, moving in and out of shelters with his mom, or staying with his siste...
Dec 17, 2021
Pets displaced by Kentucky tornado find safe haven in local shelter
By Aleksandra Michalka and Alan Duvall MAYFIELD, Ky. (Reuters) - As survivors of the tornado that tore through Mayfield, Kentucky, last week come to grips with their losses, the Humane Society is focu...
Dec 16, 2021
Soccer-Horan named US ‘Female Player of the Year’
(Reuters) - Midfielder Lindsey Horan was named U.S. Soccer's Female Player of the Year, the national soccer federation said on Thursday. The versatile Horan scored six goals and had five assists and h...
Dec 16, 2021
Biden administration asks U.S. Supreme Court to lift lower courts hold on vaccine mandate
By Dan Whitcomb (Reuters) - The Biden administration on Thursday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to lift rulings by two lower courts that put the president's COVID-19 vaccine mandate for healthcare worke...
Dec 16, 2021
Judge tosses deal shielding Purdue’s Sackler family from opioid claims
By Brendan Pierson NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge has thrown out a settlement that would have shielded the Sackler family, which owned OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, from future lawsuits over op...
Dec 16, 2021
Biden signals Build Back Better may be delayed until next year
By Steve Holland and Eric Beech WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday appeared to acknowledge that his Build Back Better spending bill may not pass Congress in the remaining weeks...
Dec 16, 2021
U.S. Senate parliamentarian rejects Democrats’ immigration proposal in Build Back Better bill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate parliamentarian has rejected the inclusion of Democrats' proposal to grant work permits to millions of immigrants who have been living in the United States illeg...
Dec 16, 2021
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