Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
U.S. reviews sanctions policy, warns of threat from cryptocurrencies
By Daphne Psaledakis and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden's administration on Monday announced a set of recommendations to revamp its use of economic sanctions to make them a...
Oct 18, 2021
Trump questioned under oath in lawsuit over alleged Trump Tower assault
By Jan Wolfe (Reuters) - Former President Donald Trump testified under oath on Monday as part of a civil lawsuit brought by protesters who allege they were assaulted by his security guards in 2015, a ...
Oct 18, 2021
Judge orders continued detention for Jan 6 riot defendant who sprayed police
By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal judge on Monday ordered continued pre-trial detention for a Pennsylvania man charged with spraying a chemical irritant on police officers during the ...
Oct 18, 2021
International travel searches spike after U.S. moves to ease curbs – Kayak
(Reuters) - Travel website Kayak said on Monday searches related to international travel to the United States spiked 48% on Saturday, compared to the same day one week earlier. This followed the White...
Oct 18, 2021
Biden administration asks U.S. Supreme Court to block Texas abortion law
By Andrew Chung and Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden's administration on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block a Texas law that imposes a near-total ban on abortion aft...
Oct 18, 2021
Former security services executives plead guilty to rigging bids for U.S. security contracts
(Reuters) - Two former employees of security company G4S Secure Solutions NV pleaded guilty to criminal antitrust charges stemming from their involvement in a conspiracy to rig bids, fix prices, and a...
Oct 18, 2021
Jury selection to start in trial over killing of Black jogger in Georgia
By Rich McKay and Jonathan Allen (Reuters) - The judge overseeing the trial of three white men charged with murdering Ahmaud Arbery, a Black jogger, in Glynn County in coastal Georgia said potential j...
Oct 18, 2021
FBI involved in effort to recover U.S. missionaries kidnapped in Haiti – source
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The FBI will assist in the investigation and efforts to locate and free a group of U.S. Christian missionaries who have been kidnapped and are being held by a criminal gang in Ha...
Oct 18, 2021
U.S. NTSB may ask transit agencies to check Kawasaki rail cars
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board said on Monday the agency may issue an urgent recommendation telling transit agencies to inspect Kawasaki train cars to...
Oct 18, 2021
U.S. Trade Representative to go to Brussels, attend G7 trade ministers meeting in London
(Reuters) - U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai and Deputy Trade Representative Jayme White will travel to Brussels on Tuesday and then to London on Thursday to attend the G7 trade ministers meeti...
Oct 18, 2021
