Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Exclusive: U.S. lawmakers push for new controls on ex-spies working overseas
By Christopher Bing (Reuters) - The U.S. intelligence community's budget bill could place new controls and reporting requirements on former U.S. spies, according to the author of the legislation, maki...
Sep 30, 2021
U.S. Senate votes to confirm new consumer watchdog chief
By Katanga Johnson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate voted on Thursday to confirm as chief consumer watchdog Rohit Chopra, widely praised by progressives for long defending Americans from predato...
Sep 30, 2021
Foreign automakers ask U.S. House Democrats to reject union EV tax credit
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A group of 12 major foreign automakers, including Toyota Motor Corp, Volkswagen AG, Hyundai Motor Co and Nissan Motor Co, urged U.S. House of Representatives Democrats to reject...
Sep 30, 2021
U.S. school board group asks Biden for help against growing ‘threat’
By Brendan O'Brien (Reuters) - As schools around the country face growing backlash related to pandemic safety measures and studies of race in America, school board members are asking for federal help ...
Sep 30, 2021
Alito decries ‘sinister’ portrayal of U.S. Supreme Court ‘shadow docket’
By Tom Polansek NOTRE DAME, Indiana (Reuters) - Conservative Justice Samuel Alito on Thursday defended the U.S. Supreme Court's increasing use of its emergency "shadow docket" to decide major politica...
Sep 30, 2021
U.S. House approves bill to avert government shutdown
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A majority of the U.S. House of Representatives voted on Thursday to approve a Senate-passed measure that avoids a partial government shutdown by funding federal agencies into t...
Sep 30, 2021
California judge questions counties’ opioid case against drugmakers at trial’s end
By Nate Raymond (Reuters) - A California judge on Thursday said several large counties accusing four drugmakers of fueling an opioid epidemic had presented a "dearth of evidence" during a multi-billio...
Sep 30, 2021
U.S. immigration agents to more narrowly target migrants for deportation
By Mica Rosenberg and Kristina Cooke (Reuters) - The U.S. government will narrow who immigration agents target for arrest and deportation, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said on T...
Sep 30, 2021
Facebook research shows company knew of Instagram harm to teens, senators say
By Sheila Dang and Paresh Dave (Reuters) - U.S. senators on Thursday grilled Facebook Inc on its plans to better protect young users on its apps, drawing on leaked internal research that showed the so...
Sep 30, 2021
Biden prepares to scale back lofty goals as signature spending plan under threat
By Jarrett Renshaw and Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden and his senior Democratic allies in Congress are preparing to lower their ambitions for a signature legislative achie...
Sep 30, 2021
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