Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Biden to visit New Jersey Monday to promote budget legislation -White House
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden will travel to New Jersey on Monday to make his case for budget legislation as negotiations among Democratic lawmakers continue, White House s...
Oct 20, 2021
U.S. administers 410.2 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines – CDC
(Reuters) - The United States has administered 410,189,737 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Wednesday morning and distributed 496,915,265 doses, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and...
Oct 20, 2021
Washington subway board to retain outside safety advisers after derailment
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chair of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) board said on Wednesday that directors will retain outside safety advisers in the wake of last week's der...
Oct 20, 2021
Biden’s Japan envoy pick vows to make Nissan executive case a priority
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Rahm Emanuel, nominee to be the next U.S. ambassador to Tokyo, vowed at his Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday to prioritize the case of an American former Nissan Motor ex...
Oct 20, 2021
U.S. election reform bill fails in Senate procedural vote
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bill aimed at thwarting restrictive new voting laws enacted in Republican-led states failed to advance in the U.S. Senate on Wednesday, as Republican lawmakers blocked a Democ...
Oct 20, 2021
Death of Chicago teen looms over hearing for Biden’s Japan nominee
By Patricia Zengerle and Michael Martina WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Questions about the murder of a Black teenager by a white police officer loomed over the confirmation hearing on Wednesday for former Ch...
Oct 20, 2021
Biden under pressure as U.S.-Mexico border arrests reach record highs
By Kristina Cooke (Reuters) - U.S. authorities arrested 1.7 million migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border this fiscal year, the most ever recorded, according to a U.S. government source familiar with the...
Oct 20, 2021
Factbox-Biden, Democrats $2 trillion spending plan: What is in, what is cut?
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden and Democrats in Congress rolled out an ambitious $3.5 trillion spending plan in August to support his economic policies. The measure is being whittled ...
Oct 20, 2021
U.S. Senator Manchin denies media report he could leave Democrats
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Joe Manchin, a moderate who has stood as a stumbling block to much of President Joe Biden's agenda, called a media report that he could consider leaving the Democra...
Oct 20, 2021
Testimony ends in ex-Giuliani associate’s campaign finance trial
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) - Testimony concluded on Wednesday in the campaign finance trial of a former associate of Rudy Giuliani, a case that has provided a glimpse into the inner workings of p...
Oct 20, 2021
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