Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Obama family dog Bo, a ‘constant, gentle presence’, dies
(Reuters) - Former U.S. President Barack Obama's family dog Bo, a male Portuguese Water Dog with a mop of black and white fur who became a familiar playful sight around the White House, has died. Obam...
May 09, 2021
Musk boosts his brand, and NBCUniversal’s, on ‘Saturday Night Live’
DETROIT (Reuters) - Billionaire Elon Musk dropped a surprise early in his hotly anticipated turn as host of "Saturday Night Live," saying in his monologue that he "is the first person with Asperger's"...
May 08, 2021
Colonial Pipeline hackers stole data on Thursday – Bloomberg News
(Reuters) - The hackers who caused Colonial Pipeline to shut down on Friday began their cyberattack against the top U.S. fuel pipeline operator a day earlier and stole a large amount of data, Bloomber...
May 08, 2021
Three people, including a 4-year-old, shot in New York’s Times Square
By Raphael Satter WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three people including a four-year-old girl were shot in New York City's Times Square after gunfire broke out in a dispute that they were apparently not involv...
May 08, 2021
U.S. wants COVID vaccine patent waiver to benefit world, not boost China biotech
By Andrea Shalal, Carl O'Donnell and David Lawder (Reuters) - The Biden administration is examining ways to ensure that a waiver of COVID-19 vaccine patents to aid poor countries will not hand sensiti...
May 08, 2021
Explainer-Will Colonial Pipeline shutdown spike U.S. pump prices?
By Devika Krishna Kumar NEW YORK (Reuters) - The largest U.S. fuel pipeline system, Colonial Pipeline, shut down on Friday after a cyber attack, prompting worries about a spike in gasoline and diesel ...
May 08, 2021
Cyberattack on pipeline spotlights holes in U.S. energy security
(Reuters) -A cyberattack that shut the largest U.S. gasoline pipeline and jeopardized supplies from Gulf Coast refining centers to cities including Washington, D.C., Baltimore and Atlanta put energy s...
May 08, 2021
White House releases first visitor logs since Obama
By Jarrett Renshaw (Reuters) - The White House on Friday released its first batch of records disclosing visits by official guests, returning to a practice set by the Obama administration but ditched b...
May 07, 2021
AstraZeneca weighs seeking full U.S. approval for COVID-19 shot: WSJ
(Reuters) - AstraZeneca Plc may skip asking the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for emergency-use authorization for its COVID-19 vaccine, and instead pursue the more time-intensive application for a...
May 07, 2021
U.S. proposal would crack down on anonymous ‘ghost guns’
By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department on Friday released a proposed rule that would crack down on self-assembled "ghost guns," a measure promised by the White House last mont...
May 07, 2021
