Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Biden to tout jump in U.S. vaccination rates after mandates – White House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden will highlight a "strong uptick" in U.S. vaccinations in a speech on Thursday, a White House official said, marking the impact of vaccine mandates for federa...
Oct 14, 2021
White House ‘draft material’ on U.S. Supreme Court reforms due later Thursday
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The commission formed by President Joe Biden to study potential U.S. Supreme Court changes such as expanding the number of justices or imposing term limits on them is set to rel...
Oct 14, 2021
Judge expected to sentence real estate heir Robert Durst to life for California murder
By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) - A California judge on Thursday is expected to give a mandatory life prison sentence to multimillionaire real estate heir Robert Durst, who was convicted last month of murd...
Oct 14, 2021
Biden to meet with pope, push for global minimum tax at G20 in Rome -official
By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden will meet with Pope Francis on Oct. 29 before attending a two-day summit of G20 leaders in Rome where he hopes to reach agreement on a Global M...
Oct 14, 2021
U.S. FDA advisers weigh case for COVID-19 vaccine booster shots
(Reuters) -Israel health officials on Thursday said that booster doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine improved severe disease protection in people aged 40 and older, in presentations made to ...
Oct 14, 2021
Schumer says U.S. Senate to vote on election reform next week
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said on Thursday that the Senate will hold a procedural vote as early as next Wednesday on election reform legislation aimed at reversi...
Oct 14, 2021
As Ida-hit Port Fourchon rebuilds, disappearing wetlands threaten its future
By Liz Hampton PORT FOURCHON, Louisiana (Reuters) - On Louisiana's south coast, in a key port servicing the U.S. offshore oil industry, a huge shipyard sits idle and in tatters. Where parts of the nin...
Oct 14, 2021
Anti-Trump Republicans to back vulnerable Democratic lawmakers in 2022 congressional races
By Tim Reid LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A group of anti-Trump Republicans on Thursday will endorse a slate of Democratic lawmakers facing tough races in next year's midterm elections, in a bid to stop the...
Oct 14, 2021
U.S. supply chain too snarled for Biden Christmas fix, experts say
By Nandita Bose and Lisa Baertlein WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden is pushing to ease supply shortages and tame rising prices in time for Christmas, but unsnarling U.S. supply lines could t...
Oct 14, 2021
U.S. pastors, advocacy groups mobilize against COVID-19 vaccine mandates
By Tom Hals (Reuters) - From the outside, First Harvest Ministries in Waveland, Mississippi, could almost be mistaken for a storage shed were it not for the steeple. From the modest building however, ...
Oct 14, 2021
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