Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
U.S. lawmakers seek to protect election workers after Reuters investigation
By Linda So and Jason Szep (Reuters) - Democratic Congress members called for tougher legislation to address death threats against U.S. election administrators following a Reuters report that exposed ...
Sep 10, 2021
Biden wants resources for OSHA to enforce vaccine mandate – White House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden wants the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to have all the resources it will need to enforce the employer vaccine mandate he unveiled on ...
Sep 10, 2021
Judge orders continued pre-trial detention of Jan 6. defendant from Utah
By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal magistrate on Friday ordered continued pre-trial detention for Landon Copeland, a Utah resident facing multiple Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot charges and ...
Sep 10, 2021
U.S. Senate Democrats float stock buyback tax
By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two senior U.S. Senate Democrats on Friday unveiled a proposal to impose a 2% excise tax on corporate stock buybacks to help fund President Joe Biden's $3.5 tril...
Sep 10, 2021
Court rules for Florida governor, reinstates ban on mask mandates in state’s schools
By Rich McKay and Brendan O'Brien (Reuters) - A Florida appeals court ruled on Friday in favor of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, issuing a stay in a case that effectively reinstates his ban on mask ma...
Sep 10, 2021
U.S. special representative for North Korea to travel to Tokyo next week
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. special representative for North Korea will travel to Tokyo next week for talks with South Korean and Japanese counterparts on the denuclearization of the Korean Penins...
Sep 10, 2021
COVID-19 vaccines hold strong against Delta, protection waning in older adults
By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) - Three U.S. studies suggest COVID-19 vaccines offer strong protection against hospitalization and death, even in the face of the highly transmissible Delta vari...
Sep 10, 2021
U.S. COVID-19 cases average 136,000 per day, daily deaths above 1,000 – CDC director
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States had an average of 136,000 COVID-19 cases, 11,750 hospitalizations and more than 1,000 deaths in its most recent seven-day period, U.S. Centers for Disease Cont...
Sep 10, 2021
Biden’s COVID vaccine mandate angers Republicans, libertarians
By Nandita Bose and Diane Bartz WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans and libertarians are vowing to fight U.S. President Joe Biden's new vaccine mandate covering big companies, healthcare workers and fe...
Sep 10, 2021
Igor Fruman, ex-associate of Giuliani, pleads guilty in campaign finance case
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) -A former associate of Rudy Giuliani who sought to dig up damaging information in Ukraine about U.S. President Joe Biden before the 2020 election, pleaded guilty on Frida...
Sep 10, 2021
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