Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Major airline CEOs call for summit to speed UK-U.S. travel
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chief executives of major U.S. and UK and passenger airlines on Tuesday called for a summit with the two governments to speed the reopening of transatlantic travel. "The air...
May 11, 2021
U.S. waives environmental rule to ease Mid-Atlantic fuel shortages
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. environmental regulators issued an emergency fuel waiver on Tuesday to help alleviate any shortages in reformulated gasoline in the Mid-Atlantic states as supplies tighten f...
May 11, 2021
America’s mask makers face post-pandemic meltdown
By Timothy Aeppel (Reuters) - The small U.S. manufacturers that rushed to produce face masks over the past year are now stuck with hundreds of millions of unsold face coverings because China is floodi...
May 11, 2021
U.S. set to approve first major offshore wind farm – sources
(Reuters) - The Biden administration is on Tuesday set to approve the first major U.S. offshore wind farm, the Vineyard Wind project off the coast of Massachusetts, according to two sources with knowl...
May 11, 2021
Analysis: The U.S. state with the most detailed corporate diversity disclosures
By Ross Kerber and Jessica DiNapoli (Reuters) - Aerospace company Boeing Co was explicit, naming who among its dozen directors were women, Asian and African American. Agricultural giant Archer Daniels...
May 11, 2021
Loyalty to Trump catapults Elise Stefanik into Republican stardom
By Gabriella Borter and Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Representative Elise Stefanik's first turn in the national limelight came when she mounted an impassioned defense of Donald Trump at ...
May 11, 2021
U.S. Senate Democrats aim to expand voting as Republicans seek to rein it in
By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats in the U.S. Senate hope on Tuesday to advance sweeping election reform legislation making it easier for Americans to cast ballots, despite intense opp...
May 11, 2021
Pandemic’s labor reshuffle likely just starting for U.S. workers
By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) - If the coronavirus pandemic produced its own brand of anxiety for American workers trying to stay healthy while balancing job and family demands, the coming ...
May 11, 2021
Biden: 1 million Americans sign up for healthcare in special enrollment period
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - One million Americans have signed up for health insurance on the U.S. government website Healthcare.gov during a special enrollment period that began on Feb. 15, President Joe B...
May 11, 2021
Biden picks Rahm Emanuel as U.S. envoy to Japan -FT
(Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden has chosen former Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel as ambassador to Japan, the Financial Times said https://on.ft.com/3bgCPgv on Tuesday, citing eight people familiar wi...
May 11, 2021
