Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Baseball-Peanuts and the crack of the bat: Pro sports ramp up COVID vaccination drive
By Amy Tennery NEW YORK (Reuters) - For Debra Wiest, a 53-year-old teacher and lifelong New York Mets fan, the choice to get her COVID-19 vaccine at the club's Citi Field was simple: She feels safe th...
May 25, 2021
U.S. Senate banking chair plans interest-rate cap bill as he turns up heat on lenders
By Pete Schroeder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Democratic head of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, Sherrod Brown, is prioritizing legislation that would set a national cap on how much lenders can char...
May 25, 2021
U.S. freeways flattened Black neighborhoods nationwide
By Andy Sullivan SYRACUSE, N.Y. (Reuters) - Syracuse wasn't the only city where Black residents were displaced by the U.S. freeway-building boom of the 1950s and 1960s. Across the country, local offic...
May 25, 2021
Can this U.S. city heal racial wounds by busting up its freeway?
By Andy Sullivan SYRACUSE, N.Y. (Reuters) - For more than 50 years, Interstate 81 has cut through the heart of hard-luck Syracuse, New York, raining vehicle exhaust on its Southside neighborhood, wher...
May 25, 2021
Wall Street bank CEOs to tout COVID relief push, diversity efforts before Congress
By Michelle Price and Pete Schroeder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Wall Street bank chiefs will tout the role their institutions have played in getting the pandemic-hit U.S. economy back on track when they a...
May 25, 2021
Biden looks abroad for electric vehicle metals, in blow to U.S. miners
By Ernest Scheyder and Trevor Hunnicutt (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden will rely on ally countries to supply the bulk of the metals needed to build electric vehicles and focus on processing them...
May 25, 2021
A year since George Floyd’s murder, Americans reflect on his legacy
By Jeff Mason and Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Americans on Tuesday will mark the first anniversary of the murder of George Floyd beneath a white Minneapolis police officer's knee, which cata...
May 25, 2021
After ceasefire, tensions over Mideast still boil on California campus
By Nathan Layne and Maria Caspani (Reuters) - Lea Toubian was deep into an online discussion with university administrators about the safety of Jewish students when news of a truce between Israel and ...
May 25, 2021
Basketball-NBA Social Justice Coalition calls for passage of police reform bill
(Reuters) - The National Basketball Association's (NBA) Social Justice Coalition has called on the U.S. Senate to pass a police reform bill to honour the memory of George Floyd, an African-American ki...
May 25, 2021
Alabama governor signs bill that prohibits vaccine passports
By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) - Alabama Governor Kay Ivey on Monday signed a bill that prohibited private businesses and public institutions from requiring COVID-19 "vaccine passports" to access service...
May 25, 2021
