Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Biden wants to keep working on police reform bill but willing to take executive action
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden on Wednesday said the White House will continue to work with the U.S. Congress on police reform and he will also look into further executive actions he can t...
Sep 22, 2021
U.S. appeals court erases ruling allowing gun sales to people under 21
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday threw out its recent decision that a federal prohibition on firearms dealers selling guns to young adults under 21 was unconstitutiona...
Sep 22, 2021
U.S. congressional negotiations on police reforms fail
By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Negotiations in the U.S. Congress to tighten police practices following the 2020 murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis have collapsed, Democratic Senator Cory B...
Sep 22, 2021
Virginia capital unveils monument marking end of slavery after removing Confederate statue
By Joseph Ax (Reuters) - Two weeks after Richmond, Virginia, removed a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee that had prompted protests over racial injustice, the city unveiled a new monument on...
Sep 22, 2021
Explainer – Here’s what we know about how U.S. will lift travel restrictions
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden's administration plans to ease in early November COVID-19 pandemic-related travel restrictions that have barred people from much of the world from entering t...
Sep 22, 2021
Conditions worsen in migrant camps on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border
By Daina Beth Solomon CIUDAD ACUNA, Mexico (Reuters) - Conditions deteriorated in migrant camps on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border on Wednesday where thousands of mostly Haitian migrants have gat...
Sep 22, 2021
R. Kelly decides not to testify in sex trafficking trial
By Tyler Clifford NEW YORK (Reuters) - R. Kelly said on Wednesday he will not testify in his own defense at his sex trafficking trial in Brooklyn, where the government accused the R&B singer of groomi...
Sep 22, 2021
Bill to hike debt limit could get U.S. Senate vote next week-Sen. Durbin
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Democrats in the U.S. Senate are navigating toward a vote next week on a bill to raise Washington's borrowing authority and temporarily fund government agencies, No. 2 Senate Dem...
Sep 22, 2021
North Carolina man who made bomb threat near Capitol pleads not guilty
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A North Carolina man facing criminal charges after claiming he had a bomb in his truck parked near the U.S. Capitol pleaded not guilty on Wednesday, after a fe...
Sep 22, 2021
U.S. CDC advisers could vote on Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine booster on Thursday
(Reuters) - U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisory panel could vote on the use of a third shot of Pfizer Inc and partner BioNTech SE's COVID-19 vaccine on Thursday, an agency officia...
Sep 22, 2021
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