Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
U.S. infrastructure deal would boost electric buses, but trail demand
By Tina Bellon (Reuters) - A bipartisan $1.2 trillion U.S. infrastructure agreement would boost the rollout of electric buses, but falls way short of what transit experts and school districts say is n...
Jun 25, 2021
U.S. to sue Georgia over restrictive new state voting law-source
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department is expected to file a lawsuit on Friday challenging a Georgia election law that imposes new limits on voting, calling it a violation...
Jun 25, 2021
U.S. Supreme Court backs Alaska Natives in COVID-19 aid dispute
By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday ruled that federal COVID-19 relief funds can go to specially created corporations for Native Alaskans even though they are not...
Jun 25, 2021
U.S. Supreme Court limits damages in TransUnion ‘terrorist list’ lawsuit
By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday narrowed the scope of a class action lawsuit against TransUnion in which thousands of people sought damages after the credit ...
Jun 25, 2021
Gay nightclub Pulse to become U.S. memorial after 2016 mass shooting
By Susan Heavey WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden will designate the Pulse gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, a national memorial on Friday, honoring the site where a mass shooting kille...
Jun 25, 2021
One city ‘ready to explode’ as U.S. murder rates surge in pandemic
By Nathan Layne ROCHESTER, N.Y. (Reuters) - Elijah Ross stood watch last Friday by the candles, flowers, liquor bottles and balloons at a memorial for his 31-year-old friend, Eric Ruise, among the lat...
Jun 25, 2021
Harris visits U.S.-Mexico border amid criticism from Republicans
By Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vice President Kamala Harris will meet migrants and visit a border patrol facility on the U.S.-Mexico border on Friday, aiming to counter claims from Republicans...
Jun 25, 2021
Not taking it: Remote West Texas COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy plain to see
By Brad Brooks MORTON, Texas (Reuters) - The phone rang non-stop in Emily Herrera's office at the Cochran Memorial Hospital. It was mid-February and the small town of Morton in far West Texas had just...
Jun 25, 2021
Ex-policeman Derek Chauvin to be sentenced for George Floyd’s murder
By Jonathan Allen (Reuters) - Former Minneapolis policeman Derek Chauvin will be sentenced on Friday for murdering George Floyd in May 2020 after a trial that was widely seen as a watershed moment in ...
Jun 25, 2021
Assange’s fiancée urges Biden to free WikiLeaks founder to show U.S. has changed
By Kate Holton LONDON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden must let Julian Assange go free if he wants the United States to become a beacon for a free press once again and put the legacy of Donald Trump be...
Jun 25, 2021
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