Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Biden says supplies of petroleum sufficient to reduce amount purchased from Iran
(Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden said in a memo to the State Department on Friday that there were sufficient supplies of petroleum to allow a "significant reduction" in the amount purchased from I...
Nov 12, 2021
Trump adviser Bannon criminally charged for defying Jan. 6 subpoena
By Jan Wolfe and Mark Hosenball (Reuters) -Stephen Bannon, a prominent adviser to former U.S. President Donald Trump, has been criminally charged for defying a subpoena issued by a congressional commi...
Nov 12, 2021
Entrepreneur who flew to space with Shatner dies in plane crash, CBS reports
(Reuters) -Glen de Vries, a businessman who flew to space last month with actor William Shatner aboard a craft operated by Jeff Bezos's company Blue Origin, died in a small plane crash in New Jersey, ...
Nov 12, 2021
‘Sheriff Joe’ Biden urges Cabinet to ensure fresh spending is used wisely
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden said he would urge his Cabinet on Friday to ensure that funding in a $1 trillion infrastructure bill and a separate $1.75 trillion social and climate me...
Nov 12, 2021
Biden vaccination rules are boosting COVID-19 shot uptake – White House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden's vaccine requirements are prompting more Americans to get COVID-19 shots, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said on Friday. "In the past week, we'r...
Nov 12, 2021
White House: Biden will participate in tribal nations summit on Monday
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden will take part in a tribal nations summit on Monday, the first one since 2016 and the first that has been hosted at the White House, spokesperson Jen Ps...
Nov 12, 2021
Theaters reopen, but Disney cautious on families returning to big screens
By Nivedita Balu (Reuters) - Movie buffs in the United States are back in theaters as the pandemic eases, but it is not clear if a sizeable chunk of the audience - families - might be just as happy wa...
Nov 12, 2021
U.S. lawmaker looks to block first major Saudi arms deal under Biden
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar filed legislation on Friday seeking to block the sale of $650 million air-to-air missiles to Saudi Arabia, the first major arms sale to...
Nov 12, 2021
Republican Jack Ciattarelli concedes in New Jersey governor’s race
(Reuters) -Republican Jack Ciattarelli conceded defeat to Democrat Phil Murphy in the New Jersey governor's race on Friday, 10 days after the end of an election campaign in which he narrowed a wide le...
Nov 12, 2021
NY Fed’s Williams says fixed income households more affected by high inflation
(Reuters) - Higher inflation does not affect all households equally, with people on fixed incomes taking a bigger hit, New York Federal Reserve Bank President John Williams said Friday. "There are def...
Nov 12, 2021
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