Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
U.S. FTC votes to begin creating rule to ban government, business impersonation fraud
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Trade Commission voted unanimously on Thursday to begin work on a rule that would prohibit scam artists from impersonating government agencies or well-known com...
Dec 16, 2021
Gun makers challenge New York law allowing lawsuits against industry
By Nate Raymond (Reuters) - A group of gun manufacturers, distributors and retailers on Thursday filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a New York law that allows the state and people af...
Dec 16, 2021
Trump ally Stone to invoke right against self-incrimination at Jan. 6 panel – lawyer
By Jan Wolfe and Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Longtime Donald Trump adviser Roger Stone will invoke the constitutional protection against self-incrimination during an interview on Friday w...
Dec 16, 2021
Kentucky survivors vow to rebuild ‘junkyard’ left by tornado
By Rod Nickel and Cheney Orr MAYFIELD, Ky. (Reuters) - Six days after a monstrous tornado descended on Mayfield, the devastated Kentucky city is still without power, its streets dark and dangerous whe...
Dec 16, 2021
Bill to clamp down on products from China’s Xinjiang passes Congress, Biden next
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate passed legislation on Thursday to ban imports from China's Xinjiang region over concerns about forced labor, part of Washington's continued ...
Dec 16, 2021
U.S. Chamber of Commerce takes another swing at FTC
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which has been battling the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, joined 85 other organizations from a range of industries in a letter to senators pressin...
Dec 16, 2021
Omicron delivers another uncertain holiday season to pandemic-weary Americans
By Joseph Ax and Julia Harte (Reuters) - Americans face an uncertain and anxiety-filled holiday season for the second consecutive year, as the highly contagious Omicron variant threatens to intensify ...
Dec 16, 2021
Blood clot rates after J&J vaccine higher than previous estimates: CDC advisers
(Reuters) - The rate of blood clots following Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine appears to be higher than previously estimated, a subcommittee of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention expe...
Dec 16, 2021
Eight heart inflammation cases among young kids who got COVID-19 shot – U.S. CDC
(Reuters) -The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday it had received reports of eight cases of myocarditis, a type of heart inflammation, in children aged 5-11 years who rec...
Dec 16, 2021
Biden signs bill raising U.S. debt limit into law – White House
(Reuters) - President Joe Biden on Thursday signed a bill raising the U.S. debt limit into law, the White House said in a statement, averting what would have been an unprecedented default. The U.S. Co...
Dec 16, 2021
