Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Biden pushes for action on infrastructure and broader agenda
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden and his top aides on Tuesday pushed members of his own party to fund not just infrastructure but his broader agenda as talks over bills for both intensif...
Sep 28, 2021
Investors with $1.6 trillion in assets push Congress to back paid leave
By Jessica DiNapoli NEW YORK (Reuters) - Investors with assets worth over $1.6 trillion urged Congress on Tuesday to pass a federal paid family and medical leave policy as part of President Joe Biden'...
Sep 28, 2021
Republican seeks documents from White House, DOJ over Huawei CFO case
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Republican lawmaker is calling on the Biden administration to provide communications between the White House and the Justice Department, after the near-simultaneous release of...
Sep 28, 2021
White House says 400,000 people so far got boosters at pharmacies
By Ahmed Aboulenein and Susan Heavey WASHINGTON (Reuters) -At least 400,000 people in the United States have received booster doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine after U.S. health regulators...
Sep 28, 2021
U.S. Senator Cruz vows to block new Democratic debt ceiling ploy
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican U.S. Senator Ted Cruz vowed on Tuesday to block Democrats from obtaining consent to suspend the federal debt ceiling through a simple majority vote. (Reporting by Dav...
Sep 28, 2021
Exclusive: Drug distributors strike 1st opioid settlement with Native American tribe for $75 million
By Nate Raymond (Reuters) - The three largest U.S. drug distributors will pay more than $75 million to resolve claims they fueled an opioid epidemic in the Cherokee Nation's territory in Oklahoma, mar...
Sep 28, 2021
U.S. Senate’s Schumer to seek vote to increase the debt limit, on a majority vote
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said he will ask later Tuesday for unanimous consent for the chamber to hold a vote to increase the nation's debt limit on a majority v...
Sep 28, 2021
Yellen warns lawmakers U.S. Treasury to hit debt limit Oct. 18
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Tuesday again warned lawmakers that the nation was close to exhausting its federal borrowing capabilities - now set for Oct. 18 - and urg...
Sep 28, 2021
Democrats weigh all options after Republicans block gov’t funding bill -Durbin
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats are exploring all of their options to avert a government shutdown this week after Republicans on Monday shot down a measure to fund federal agencies and suspend the de...
Sep 28, 2021
Gunman in 2018 Maryland newspaper massacre sentenced to five life terms
(Reuters) -A Maryland judge on Tuesday sentenced the gunman who killed five people at the Capital Gazette newsroom in Annapolis in 2018 to five life prison sentences without the possibility of parole,...
Sep 28, 2021
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