Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Big Prizes: CVS throws in tropical trips, Superbowl tickets in vaccine push
(Reuters) - U.S. pharmacy chain CVS is helping President Joe Biden's push to get 70% of Americans vaccinated against COVID-19 by Independence Day, promising customers prizes ranging from tropical crui...
May 27, 2021
U.S. VP Harris to meet companies, groups to push Central America economic growth
By Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris will meet top officials from 12 companies and groups including Microsoft Corp, Mastercard and the World Economic Forum on Thurs...
May 27, 2021
What to watch for in Biden’s first full budget: Medicaid, the environment, Pentagon spending
By Andrea Shalal and Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden will unveil his first full budget on Friday, setting the stage for a pitched battle with Republicans opposed to his pla...
May 27, 2021
U.S. Republicans expected to unveil $1 trillion infrastructure plan
By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Republicans, hoping to strike a deal with President Joe Biden on infrastructure, are expected to unveil a new offer on Thursday that would spend abou...
May 27, 2021
Factbox: What was the 1921 Tulsa race massacre?
By Makini Brice (Reuters) - Next week marks the centenary of a white mob's deadly attacks on the African Americans of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Below is background on the events in Tulsa on May 30...
May 27, 2021
Death threats and the KKK: Inside a Black Alabaman’s fight to remove a Confederate statue
By Tim Reid (Reuters) - Ever since Camille Bennett started her campaign to relocate a Confederate statue from outside the county courthouse in her hometown of Florence, Alabama, she has seen it all: t...
May 27, 2021
Police, FBI seek motive in California shooting rampage
By Peter DaSilva and Dan Whitcomb SAN JOSE, Calif. (Reuters) - Police and federal investigators sought on Thursday to determine why a Northern California transit employee opened fire on his co-workers...
May 27, 2021
Joe Biden plans to nominate Burns, Garcetti for ambassadorships: NYT
(Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden plans to announce that he has selected R. Nicholas Burns, a former ambassador to NATO, as his ambassador to China, and Mayor Eric Garcetti of Los Angeles as his am...
May 27, 2021
Biden administration backs Alaska oil project approved under Trump -Politico
(Reuters) - The administration of U.S. President Joe Biden defended a proposed ConocoPhillips oil development in Alaska on Wednesday, backing the project pushed by Alaskan Senator Lisa Murkowski, Poli...
May 26, 2021
U.S. Senate panel advances EV tax credit of up to $12,500
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate Finance Committee advanced legislation on Wednesday that would boost electric vehicle tax credits to as much as $12,500 for EVs that are asse...
May 26, 2021
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