Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
‘Critical race theory’ roils a Tennessee school district
By Gabriella Borter FRANKLIN, Tenn. (Reuters) - Robin Steenman, an Air Force veteran and white mother of three, is fed up with the way public schools in her community of Franklin, Tennessee are teachi...
Sep 21, 2021
U.S. Senate’s Schumer mulls passing election reform without Republicans
By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer signaled to Republicans on Tuesday that if they block an upcoming election reform bill, he will look for a path around ...
Sep 21, 2021
Post Trump, U.S. Democrats offer bill to rein in presidential powers
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. House of Representatives Democrats introduced legislation on Tuesday seeking to pull back powers from the presidency, part of an ongoing effort to rein ...
Sep 21, 2021
U.S. House to test Republican roadblock in Tuesday debt-limit vote
By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday was scheduled to debate and vote on legislation to fund the federal government through Dec. 3 and raise the nation'...
Sep 21, 2021
J&J says second shot boosts protection for moderate-severe COVID-19 to 94%
By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson said Tuesday a second shot of its COVID-19 vaccine given about two months after the first increased its effectiveness to 94% in the United St...
Sep 21, 2021
How India flipped its vaccine fortunes
By Krishna N. Das NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Only months ago, India ran so short of COVID-19 vaccines that computer experts wrote software code https://www.reuters.com/world/india/high-tech-hunt-scarce-cov...
Sep 21, 2021
U.S. to require COVID vaccination on arrival for some foreign nationals with exemptions, memo says
By Andrea Shalal and David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Under new U.S. rules, foreign nationals admitted to the United States on humanitarian grounds, who are not required to have COVID-19 vaccin...
Sep 21, 2021
At UN, Biden will try to move past Afghanistan with climate, China focus
By Trevor Hunnicutt and Steve Holland NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Joe Biden plans to defend his hasty troop withdrawal from Afghanistan on Tuesday in a speech to the United Nations, arguing it was ...
Sep 21, 2021
Migrants on school buses? Texas town feels caught in the middle
By Alexandra Ulmer DEL RIO, Texas (Reuters) - Many residents of the Texan border town of Del Rio have been saying for months that they feel abandoned by the federal government as border arrests hit 20...
Sep 21, 2021
George Holliday, who shot video of police beating Rodney King, dies
By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) - George Holliday, the plumber who shot video of Los Angeles police officers beating Black motorist Rodney King in 1991, has died at a hospital in California due to complic...
Sep 21, 2021
