Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
U.S. judge vacates Trump water rule on environmental grounds
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. court on Monday vacated the Trump administration's scaled back clean water rule that had limited the number of waterways that could be federally regulated because leaving...
Aug 30, 2021
Americans give Biden low marks on Afghanistan pullout, want to see evacuations through
By Chris Kahn and James Oliphant NEW YORK (Reuters) - Less than 40% of Americans approve of President Joe Biden's handling of the U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan, and three quarters wanted U...
Aug 30, 2021
Last U.S. forces leave Afghanistan after almost 20 years
By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States on Monday said it had completed the withdrawal of its forces from Afghanistan in a chaotic airlift nearly 20 years after it invad...
Aug 30, 2021
‘Everything collapsed’: Post-Katrina refuge rocked by Ida
By Devika Krishna Kumar LAPLACE, La. (Reuters) - LaPlace, a Louisiana town on the shore of Lake Pontchartrain, sustained relatively little damage from Hurricane Katrina in 2005. That led some to view ...
Aug 30, 2021
U.S. urges lawyers to volunteer to fight feared surge of evictions
By Jan Wolfe (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department on Monday urged attorneys across the legal profession to volunteer their time to assist the crush of tenants expected to be forced out of homes now...
Aug 30, 2021
Plea deal offered to U.S. Capitol rioter accused of grabbing officer’s gas mask
By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Prosecutors have offered a plea deal to an Ohio man accused of striking a police officer during the deadly Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot and then trying to grab his...
Aug 30, 2021
After year away, excited fans return to U.S. Open but confront long lines
By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - Fans attending the U.S. Open on Monday confronted long lines at the main gate's security checkpoint, forcing some ticket holders to wait in the heat for up to two hou...
Aug 30, 2021
Abortion providers ask U.S. Supreme Court to block Texas’ six-week ban
By Andrew Chung (Reuters) - Abortion rights groups filed an emergency request at the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to block a Texas law banning abortion after six weeks of pregnancy, which is set to ta...
Aug 30, 2021
Residents, tourists scramble to evacuate as California fire nears Lake Tahoe
By Fred Greaves SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (Reuters) - Residents and tourists in communities near popular Lake Tahoe fled on Monday as the Caldor fire roared closer after sweeping across dried-out fores...
Aug 30, 2021
Louisiana hospitals dodge Ida catastrophe, but big challenges loom
By Brad Brooks (Reuters) - Louisiana hospitals largely escaped catastrophic damage from Hurricane Ida, but the storm created the "perfect petri dish" for spread of the coronavirus, officials said on M...
Aug 30, 2021
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