Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
U.S.’s Yellen says expects to finalize tax changes for large firms in 2022
VENICE (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Sunday that a new mechanism to allow more countries to tax large, highly profitable multinational firms may not be ready for considerati...
Jul 11, 2021
NFL-Washington Football Team to announce new name, logo in 2022: report
(Reuters) - The Washington Football Team plans to announce its new name and logo in 2022, the Washington Post reported https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2021/07/10/washington-football-team-future-...
Jul 10, 2021
U.S. administers nearly 333.6 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines- CDC
(Reuters) - The United States had administered 333,565,404 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Saturday morning and distributed 386,985,420 doses, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ...
Jul 10, 2021
Drought-hit New Mexico town eyes economic liftoff from Virgin Galactic space launch
By Nathan Frandino TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, N.M. (Reuters) - As the first passenger rocket plane gears up for takeoff, a sleepy desert town near Spaceport America in New Mexico is hoping for a liftoff f...
Jul 10, 2021
Confirmed death toll in Miami condo collapse reaches 86, mayor says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of people confirmed to have been killed in the collapse of a Miami-area condominium tower last month reached 86, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said on ...
Jul 10, 2021
Texas lawmakers to consider sweeping voting restrictions
By Julia Harte (Reuters) - Texas lawmakers will consider new voting restrictions on Saturday as part of a special legislative session called by Republican Governor Greg Abbott after Democrats blocked ...
Jul 10, 2021
U.S.’s Yellen says will try to address concerns of tax deal holdout countries
VENICE, Italy (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Saturday that she would work to try to address the concerns of holdout countries that have not signed onto a global corporate tax...
Jul 10, 2021
Charlottesville to remove Confederate statue at center of deadly 2017 protest
(Reuters) - The city of Charlottesville, Virginia, will remove two Confederate statues on Saturday morning, nearly four years after white supremacist protests over plans to remove one of them led to c...
Jul 10, 2021
Wreckage located of Boeing cargo jet that made emergency landing off Hawaii
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Investigators have located a Boeing 737-200 cargo jet that made an emergency water landing off the Hawaiian island of Oahu in the Pacific Ocean on July 2, th...
Jul 09, 2021
Biden fires Trump-nominated Social Security commissioner
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday fired Social Security Commissioner Andrew Saul, a holdover from the Trump administration, but Saul told the Washington Post he plans to be at w...
Jul 09, 2021
