Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
U.S. borders reopen, but not for asylum seekers stuck in Mexico
By Kristina Cooke, Mica Rosenberg and Caitlin O'Hara NOGALES, Mexico (Reuters) - Leo fled his hometown in southern Mexico after his uncle was murdered by gang members and he received death threats. Ea...
Nov 09, 2021
U.S. Supreme Court hears a condemned murderer’s religious request
By Andrew Chung (Reuters) - U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday were set to hear a bid by a man sentenced to death in Texas for a fatal 2004 stabbing outside a convenience store to have his pastor ...
Nov 09, 2021
Ex-U.S. Marine held in Russia starts hunger strike over treatment, family says
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Former U.S. Marine Trevor Reed, who is serving a nine-year jail sentence in Russia, has started a hunger strike to protest against his incarceration and violations of his rights, hi...
Nov 09, 2021
Twitter flags U.S. lawmaker’s video on Biden, Ocasio-Cortez for violating policy
By Shivam Patel (Reuters) - Twitter Inc added a warning label on Tuesday to an anime video shared by U.S. Republican lawmaker Paul Gosar, depicting him swinging swords at President Joe Biden and killi...
Nov 09, 2021
U.S. Republicans renew push to sanction Nord Stream 2 pipeline
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A group of U.S. Senate Republicans said on Monday they had introduced legislation that would impose mandatory sanctions on Nord Stream 2, a Russian-backed natural gas pipeline t...
Nov 08, 2021
New marijuana decriminalization effort weighed in U.S. House -report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Legislation that would decriminalize marijuana and establish a tax on cannabis sales was being developed by Republican Representative Nancy Mace with the goal of introducing it ...
Nov 08, 2021
U.S. judge upholds United Airlines’ COVID-19 vaccine mandate for employees
By Tom Hals and Rajesh Kumar Singh (Reuters) -A U.S. federal judge on Monday ruled that United Airlines Holdings Inc can impose a COVID-19 vaccine mandate on its employees that only provides unpaid le...
Nov 08, 2021
Macy’s to lift minimum wage to $15 an hour as labor market tightens
(Reuters) - Macy's Inc will raise the minimum wage of its more than 100,000 U.S. employees to $15 an hour by May, the department store chain said on Monday, as retailers fight to hire and retain worke...
Nov 08, 2021
Girl rescued in U.S. after using TikTok domestic violence hand signal
(Reuters) - A 16-year-old girl was rescued in Kentucky after using a hand gesture she learned on social media app TikTok to signal to motorists that she was in trouble, the Laurel County Sheriff's Off...
Nov 08, 2021
Explainer – Who could be held liable for deadly Houston concert?
By Luc Cohen and Thomas Rowe (Reuters) - More than a dozen lawsuits have been filed and a criminal investigation has been opened after eight people died and hundreds were injured in an apparent crowd ...
Nov 08, 2021
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