Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Slow slog in U.S. Senate for $1 trillion infrastructure bill
By Makini Brice and David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Senate made gradual progress on Tuesday on a $1 trillion infrastructure investment bill to upgrade roads, bridges, mass transit and broa...
Aug 03, 2021
Biden to announce new 60-day eviction moratorium -sources
By David Shepardson and Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden is set on Tuesday to announce a 60-day new moratorium on home evictions in areas with high levels of COVID-19 in...
Aug 03, 2021
Democratic lawmakers press White House on lapsed COVID-19 eviction moratorium
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. congressional Democrats on Tuesday pushed the White House to reinstate an expired moratorium on residential evictions that kept millions of people from ...
Aug 03, 2021
U.S. administers 347.4 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines – CDC
(Reuters) - The United States has administered 347,377,149 doses of COVID-19 vaccines and distributed 401,229,975 doses in the country as of Tuesday morning, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and P...
Aug 03, 2021
Police officer killed in exchange of gunfire outside Pentagon
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A police officer protecting the Pentagon was killed outside the building in Arlington, Virginia, on Tuesday, U.S. Senator Mark Warner said. Chief Woodrow Kusse, head of the Pent...
Aug 03, 2021
DaBaby loses more gigs despite new apology for anti-gay remarks
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Rapper DaBaby was dropped from the line-up of two more music festivals on Tuesday despite a third apology for homophobic remarks he made last month The organizers of the iHeart...
Aug 03, 2021
White House calls Cuomo findings abhorrent, says Biden will address later
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Tuesday called findings that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed multiple women "abhorrent" and said President Joe Biden would address the issue ...
Aug 03, 2021
U.S. Senate Democratic leader Schumer, Sen. Gillibrand call for Cuomo resignation
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, both New York Democrats, called on Governor Andrew Cuomo to resign on Tuesday after an investigation fo...
Aug 03, 2021
Congress’s fiscal referees, CBO and JCT, guide fate of Biden bills
By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The future of the bipartisan U.S. infrastructure bill introduced on Sunday and a far-larger partisan tax and spending bill to follow will be heavily influenced b...
Aug 03, 2021
Six takeaways on the investigation of NY Governor Andrew Cuomo
(Reuters) - Here are six takeaways from an investigation launched by New York Attorney General Letitia James that concluded Governor Andrew Cuomo broke federal and state laws by sexually harassing wom...
Aug 03, 2021
