Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
U.S. House Republicans aim to move past Trump-Cheney battle with Friday leadership vote
By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House Republicans plan on Friday to elect a successor to Liz Cheney, whom they ousted from their leadership team for criticizing Donald Trump's false claim...
May 14, 2021
Google leads U.S. business push to preserve work permits for H-1B spouses
By Paresh Dave (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Google said on Friday it was leading about 30 companies and trade groups in opposing a lawsuit that seeks to stop over 90,000 spouses of highly skilled U.S. v...
May 14, 2021
‘U.S. Welcome Patrol’: how some border agents are struggling with Biden’s policy shift
By Ted Hesson, Kristina Cooke and Mica Rosenberg WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Some U.S. border patrol agents are so frustrated with President Joe Biden's more liberal border policies that they are consideri...
May 14, 2021
Nine shot in Providence, Rhode Island, three critically wounded
(Refiles to fix typo in first paragraph) (Reuters) - Nine people were wounded, three of them critically, in Providence, Rhode Island, on Thursday in an exchange of gunfire between a home and the occup...
May 13, 2021
U.S. will not immediately lift mask rules in air, public transit
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Biden administration's requirements that people wear masks on U.S. airplanes, public transport, airports and ride-hailing vehicles are not expected to be...
May 13, 2021
U.S. barge backup worsens as Misssissippi River shut near Memphis
By Tom Polansek CHICAGO (Reuters) - A traffic jam on the lower Mississippi River swelled to 771 barges on Thursday as a fractured bridge near Memphis closed the waterway that is crucial for U.S. crop ...
May 13, 2021
Far from Colonial Pipeline, panic buying leaves Florida cities short of gas
By Laila Kearney (Reuters) - In Tampa, Florida, a third of the city's gas stations were out of fuel on Thursday. In Miami, outages stood at nearly 40% and growing as residents rapidly filled up their ...
May 13, 2021
Congressional Republicans celebrate new CDC guidance by ditching masks
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the U.S. Congress reacted jubilantly and removed their masks on Thursday after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advised that people fully vaccinated...
May 13, 2021
U.S. Rep. Roy announces bid for No. 3 House Republican leadership job
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republican U.S. Representative Chip Roy, a two-term conservative from Texas, said on Thursday he intends to run for the No. 3 House of Representatives Republican leadership job t...
May 13, 2021
U.S. administers 266.6 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines – CDC
(Reuters) - The United States has administered 266,596,486 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Thursday morning and distributed 339,165,445 doses, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ...
May 13, 2021
