Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Senators urge U.S. Justice Dept to prosecute unruly air passengers
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two senior U.S. Senate Democrats on Monday urged Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate and prosecute unruly air passengers in the face of a rising number of incidents....
Sep 20, 2021
California’s giant sequoias remain safe from growing wildfire
(Reuters) - California fire crews have so far succeeded in protecting a group of ancient giant sequoias threatened by a wildfire raging through a national park in the Sierra Nevada mountain range, aut...
Sep 20, 2021
Megan Rapinoe, other women athletes back abortion rights at U.S. Supreme Court
By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A group of prominent women athletes including soccer star Megan Rapinoe and basketball standouts Diana Taurasi and Sue Bird on Monday urged the U.S. Supreme C...
Sep 20, 2021
Biden administration seeks to lift U.S. refugee cap to 125,000
By Mica Rosenberg and Lisa Lambert WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden's administration wants to nearly double the number of refugees admitted to the United States to 125,000 in the upcoming fi...
Sep 20, 2021
U.S. Democrats set showdown with Republicans on federal debt limit
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The top Democrats in the U.S. Congress on Monday said they would aim to continue funding the government and increase its borrowing authority in a single bill in coming days, sett...
Sep 20, 2021
U.S. adds top Guatemalan, Salvadoran officials to corruption list
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The United States said on Monday it had put Guatemala's attorney general and five Salvadoran Supreme Court judges on a list of "undemocratic and corrupt" officials, in a sign o...
Sep 20, 2021
White House: apparent use of whips on Haitian migrants not acceptable
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House said on Monday that footage appearing to show border patrol agents using whips against Haitian migrants coming into the United States from Mexico was unacceptabl...
Sep 20, 2021
Prosecutors rest case against R. Kelly after month of testimony
By Tyler Clifford NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors on Monday rested their sex trafficking case against R. Kelly, after a month of often disturbing and graphic testimony from people who accused th...
Sep 20, 2021
Biden supports full investigation into Afghanistan drone strike
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden supports a thorough investigation of the U.S. drone strike that killed up to ten Afghanistan civilians last month, the White House said on Monday. Biden...
Sep 20, 2021
Audience for Emmy Awards show rises to 7.4 million
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -The television audience for Sunday's Emmy Awards reached 7.4 million viewers, according to data released by broadcaster CBS, up some 16% from last year's record low. A year ago,...
Sep 20, 2021
