Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Drivers struggle to find fuel in U.S. Southeast as pipeline begins restart
By Rich McKay ATLANTA (Reuters) - Drivers in the U.S. Southeast struggled to find gasoline on Thursday, with most pumps in the region dry after days of panic buying, triggered by a major pipeline shut...
May 13, 2021
U.S. House Speaker Pelosi voices opposition on firms paying ransom after cyber attacks
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Thursday that ransom should not be paid by companies that are the victims of cyber attacks like the one suffered by Col...
May 13, 2021
Mass shooting insurance in high demand as U.S. emerges from lockdown
By Noor Zainab Hussain and Carolyn Cohn (Reuters) - As normality filters back into American lives after a year of lockdowns, hospitals and other institutions are busy making provisions for one aspect ...
May 13, 2021
Colonial Pipeline paid hackers nearly $5 million in ransom – Bloomberg News
(Reuters) -Colonial Pipeline paid nearly $5 million to Eastern European hackers on Friday after a crippling cyberattack that shut the largest fuel pipeline network in the United States, Bloomberg News...
May 13, 2021
U.S. House panel approves $46 billion in financial relief to Postal Service
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives Oversight and Reform Committee voted to provide the cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service (USPS) with at least $46 billion in financial relief over...
May 13, 2021
U.S. homeland chief touts ‘dramatic’ efforts to relocate migrant children
By Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top U.S. homeland security official said on Thursday the Biden administration still faced challenges on the U.S.-Mexico border but that it had made extraordina...
May 13, 2021
U.S. denies Dakota Access oil pipeline stay request
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Thursday denied a request from operators of the Dakota Access oil pipeline for a stay, while they seek a Supreme Cour...
May 13, 2021
U.S. to bolster public health workforce to fight COVID-19, future pandemics
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Biden administration is releasing $7.4 billion to bolster the nation's healthcare workforce amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and to prepare for future epidemics and health...
May 13, 2021
EPA rescinds Trump move that changed how agency weighs costs, benefits of new rules
By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday scrapped a Trump-era rule that changed the way the agency weighed the benefits and costs of a new regulation...
May 13, 2021
A Minute With: Jerry Bruckheimer, Rick Rossovich on ‘Top Gun’ and sequel
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Thirty-five years since Tom Cruise soared in the sky in "Top Gun", the Hollywood star reprises his role as cocky U.S. navy pilot Maverick in the hotly-anticipated sequel. The 1986...
May 13, 2021
