Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
U.S. gasoline prices climb even as Colonial reopens after hack
By Stephanie Kelly NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. retail gasoline prices hit a fresh seven-year high on Monday, as it will take some time for the nation's largest fuel pipeline's supply chain to fully catc...
May 17, 2021
U.S. Supreme Court limits police power to enter homes with no warrant
By Andrew Chung (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to make it easier for police to enter a home without a warrant for reasons of health or public safety, throwing out a lower court's...
May 17, 2021
U.S. Supreme Court rejects J&J appeal over Risperdal drug
By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a bid by Johnson & Johnson to overturn a $70 million jury verdict against the pharmaceutical company for its failure to warn a...
May 17, 2021
U.S. Supreme Court snubs Novartis appeal over arthritis drug Enbrel
By Andrew Chung (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday dashed Novartis AG's hopes of launching a generic version of Amgen Inc's multibillion-dollar rheumatoid arthritis Enbrel, declining to hear...
May 17, 2021
U.S. homebuilder confidence steady in May, survey shows
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Confidence among U.S. single-family homebuilders held steady in May despite worries over shortages of building materials, which are boosting prices and threatening to sideline f...
May 17, 2021
U.S. Supreme Court rejects Uber bid to avoid driver pay lawsuit
By Andrew Chung (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned away Uber's bid to avoid a lawsuit over whether drivers for the ride-hailing company's limousine platform UberBLACK are employees an...
May 17, 2021
U.S. Supreme Court takes up major challenge to abortion rights
By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider gutting the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized abortion nationwide, taking up Mississippi's bid to revi...
May 17, 2021
Hitting it out of the park: Baseball card legacy could smash records
By Jill Serjeant LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - When Florida physician Thomas Newman died of COVID-19, he left his family a huge legacy - a collection of sports cards worth some $20 million, including a Babe...
May 17, 2021
U.S. Vice President Harris to headline Democratic Asian American summit
By Joseph Ax (Reuters) - Vice President Kamala Harris, the first Asian American to hold the No. 2 position in the White House, will headline a virtual summit hosted this week by the leading Asian Amer...
May 17, 2021
U.S. screens 1.85 million people on Sunday at airports, highest since March 2020
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) said it screened 1.85 million passengers on Sunday at U.S. airports, the highest number since March 2020, when the coronavi...
May 17, 2021
