Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Former USC athletic official pleads guilty ahead of U.S. college scam trial
By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) - A former senior associate athletic director at the University of Southern California pleaded guilty on Friday to participating in a vast fraud and bribery scheme tha...
Nov 05, 2021
Local governments scramble on U.S. home rental aid after ‘use it or lose it’ order
By David Lawder BETHLEHEM, Pa. (Reuters) - Dozens of state and local governments are scrambling to explain how they plan to distribute billions of dollars in home rental aid funds in coming months as ...
Nov 05, 2021
U.S. sets goal to drive down cost of removing CO2 from atmosphere
By Timothy Gardner (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden's administration on Friday set a goal for driving down the cost of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, as part of a U.S. plan to decarb...
Nov 05, 2021
Man killed by Rittenhouse challenged group to shoot him, used racial slur – witness
By Nathan Layne KENOSHA, Wis. (Reuters) - A witness in the trial of U.S. teenager Kyle Rittenhouse said on Friday that one of the two protesters killed that night was acting aggressively and repeatedl...
Nov 05, 2021
Biden says U.S. has secured doses of new Pfizer COVID pill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden said on Friday that the United States has secured millions of doses of Pfizer Inc's experimental antiviral pill for COVID-19 in case it turns out to be an ef...
Nov 05, 2021
Blinken names two officials to lead U.S. response to Havana Syndrome cases
By David Brunnstrom and Simon Lewis WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday named two new officials to coordinate Washington's response to so-called Havana Syndrome heal...
Nov 05, 2021
Factbox: Roads, bridges and airports: details of Biden’s $1 trillion infrastructure bill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives was poised on Friday to vote on a bill that would boost spending on roads, bridges, broadband and other transportation infrastructure, a center...
Nov 05, 2021
Florida, others sue to block Biden administration vaccine mandate
(Reuters) - The states of Florida, Georgia and Alabama filed a lawsuit in the 11th U.S. Circuit of Appeals on Friday seeking to block the Biden Administration's vaccine mandate, which was unveiled on ...
Nov 05, 2021
Factbox: What’s in Biden’s $1.75 trillion ‘Build Back Better’ package?
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Democratic-controlled U.S. House of Representatives was expected to vote Friday on a sweeping, $1.75 trillion social-policy and climate package that accounts for much of Dem...
Nov 05, 2021
Grandmother and grandson finally to meet as U.S. flights reopen
By Kate Holton LONDON (Reuters) - For over a year Bhavna Patel has watched her first grandchild grow via FaceTime, talking to him in New York every day while the U.S. travel restrictions prevented her...
Nov 05, 2021
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