Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
U.S. forecaster sees 95% chance of La Niña prevailing through winter
(Reuters) - There is an about 95% chance of La Nina conditions continuing during the Northern Hemisphere winter 2021-22, a U.S. government weather forecaster said on Thursday. The La Nia weather patte...
Dec 09, 2021
New York attorney general seeks Trump’s deposition amid probe -Washington Post
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -New York's attorney general is seeking former U.S. President Donald Trump's deposition as part of the state's civil fraud investigation into his business and its practices, the W...
Dec 09, 2021
Virginia Republican governor-elect pledges to remove state from regional carbon market
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Virginia's Republican Governor-elect Glenn Youngkin this week pledged to remove the state from a regional cap and trade carbon market using "executive action." Virginia passed a...
Dec 09, 2021
Texas says 8 power generators violate winter readiness rules
(Reuters) - The Public Utility Commission (PUC) of Texas said eight power generating companies failed to file winter readiness reports by the Dec. 1 deadline, violating rules adopted to avoid blackout...
Dec 09, 2021
U.S. campaign to vaccinate young children off to sluggish start despite abundant supply
By Carl O'Donnell and Michael Erman (Reuters) - The United States rushed millions of COVID-19 vaccine doses for children ages 5 to 11 across the nation, but demand for inoculations for younger kids ha...
Dec 09, 2021
Walnuts for holiday baking languish as U.S. shipping crisis hurts farmers
By Sharon Bernstein and Nathan Frandino ESCALON, Calif. (Reuters) - The shrink-wrapped boxes of fresh California walnuts stacked almost to the ceiling in Don Barton's California packing facility shoul...
Dec 09, 2021
Former U.S. senator, presidential candidate Bob Dole to lie in state in Capitol
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. Senator Bob Dole, a three-time Republican presidential candidate and decorated World War Two veteran, will lie in state on Thursday in the rotunda of the Capitol whe...
Dec 09, 2021
Georgia Republicans purge Black Democrats from county election boards
By James Oliphant and Nathan Layne GRIFFIN, Georgia (Reuters) - Protesters filled the meeting room of the Spalding County Board of Elections in October, upset that the board had disallowed early votin...
Dec 09, 2021
Fourth Ghislaine Maxwell accuser expected to testify at sex abuse trial
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) - A fourth woman who said she was a teenager when Ghislaine Maxwell gave her an unsolicited massage and set her up for sex abuse by late financier Jeffrey Epstein is ex...
Dec 09, 2021
Deal to avert U.S. default, raise debt limit faces test in Senate
By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A deal between the top Democrat and Republican in the U.S. Senate to help raise the federal government's $28.9 trillion debt limit will be tested on Thursday wh...
Dec 09, 2021
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