Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
New York Assembly suspends Cuomo impeachment investigation
By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Lawmakers in the New York Assembly have suspended their impeachment investigation of Governor Andrew Cuomo in light of his promise to step down from office over s...
Aug 13, 2021
U.S. workplace regulator says vaccinated workers should wear masks
By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) - The U.S. agency that regulates workplace safety issued guidance on Friday urging employers to require many fully vaccinated workers to wear masks to protect unvaccinated...
Aug 13, 2021
U.S. CDC panel recommends use of COVID-19 vaccine boosters in immunocompromised
(Reuters) - An advisory panel to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday voted in favor of allowing people with compromised immune systems to receive extra doses of COVID-19 vacc...
Aug 13, 2021
Private Medicare plans must return overpayments, appeals court rules
By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Friday revived a rule requiring private insurers that administer federally funded Medicare plans to return potentially billions of dollars in ove...
Aug 13, 2021
U.S. military base in Washington on lockdown due to potential armed individual
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A military base in Washington, D.C., said it was on lockdown on Friday because there was a potentially armed person it described as a Black man with a medium build carrying a Gu...
Aug 13, 2021
In desperation, U.S. scours for countries willing to house Afghan refugees
By Idrees Ali, Humeyra Pamuk and Jonathan Landay WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden's administration has been holding secret talks with more countries than previously known in a desperate atte...
Aug 13, 2021
‘It’s like a war zone’ – U.S. Air Force veteran comforts children plagued by gun violence
By Vanessa Johnston WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Davon McNeal was just 11 years old when he was struck in the head by a stray bullet at a Fourth of July cookout in Washington, D.C., last year. Now, every Fr...
Aug 13, 2021
Man linked to Oath Keepers militia pleads not guilty to U.S. Capitol riot charge
By Mark Hosenball (Reuters) - An 18th person with links to the far right Oath Keepers militia accused of taking part in the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot has been added to an indictment and pleaded not gui...
Aug 13, 2021
U.S. judge will not block CDC’s new COVID-19 residential eviction ban
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Friday rejected a bid to block a residential eviction moratorium put in place last week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The decision by ...
Aug 13, 2021
U.S. House moderates to add to Democratic divisions on budget plan: NYT
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nine moderate Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday plan to tell House Speaker Nancy Pelosi they will not vote to move ahead with the party's $3.5 trillion bu...
Aug 13, 2021
