Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Biden’s pick to lead commodities regulator to face Congressional scrutiny
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden's pick to head the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) will lay out his plans to lead the agency tasked with overseeing derivatives markets...
Oct 27, 2021
Big Oil hearing to kick off U.S. probe into climate disinformation -lawmaker
By Timothy Gardner and Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Congressional hearing this week into whether oil companies misled the public about climate change marks the start of a broad probe tha...
Oct 27, 2021
In summit with SE Asia, Japan champions open seas, Australia defends AUKUS pact
By Ain Bandial BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Wednesday stressed to Southeast Asian leaders his country's strong opposition to challenges to a free and open m...
Oct 27, 2021
Caravan of hundreds of migrants press north across Mexico
By Jose Torres and Lizbeth Diaz HUIXTLA, Mexico (Reuters) - Hundreds of migrants from Central America and the Caribbean trekked across Mexico on Wednesday, the latest in a series of caravans that have...
Oct 27, 2021
Slavery-era Georgia law is key defense argument in trial over Ahmaud Arbery’s killing
By Rich McKay and Jonathan Allen (Reuters) - A pivotal defense argument of the three white men on trial in Georgia for killing Ahmaud Arbery, a Black jogger, is that they were trying to make a citizen...
Oct 27, 2021
Assange case back in court for U.S. extradition appeal
LONDON (Reuters) - Lawyers for the United States will launch a fresh attempt on Wednesday to have Julian Assange extradited from Britain, arguing that concerns around the WikiLeaks founder's mental he...
Oct 27, 2021
U.S. Senate Democrat unveils ‘billionaires tax’ for Biden agenda
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. billionaires would pay tax on unrealized gains from their assets to help finance President Joe Biden's emerging social-policy and climate-change legislation, according to a...
Oct 27, 2021
Turkey’s Erdogan says to discuss F-35 jets with Biden in Glasgow – Anadolu
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said problems over the F-35 jet programme will be the main topic at his meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden later in Glasgow, state media reported...
Oct 27, 2021
Cambridge college returns looted Bronze to Nigeria, setting precedent
By Estelle Shirbon LONDON (Reuters) - A Cambridge University college will on Wednesday hand over to Nigeria a sculpture that was looted by British troops in 1897, setting a precedent that will put pre...
Oct 27, 2021
U.S. demand for oil surges, depleting tanks in Oklahoma
By Stephanie Kelly NEW YORK (Reuters) - Crude oil tanks at the Cushing, Oklahoma storage hub are more depleted than they have been in the last three years, and prices of further dated oil contracts su...
Oct 27, 2021
