Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
U.S. economy likely created nearly a million jobs in April
By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. employers likely hired nearly a million workers in April as they rushed to meet a surge in demand, unleashed by the reopening of the economy amid rapidly ...
May 06, 2021
Texas lawmakers open House floor debate on Republican-backed voting limits
By Joseph Ax and Steve Gorman (Reuters) - The Texas House of Representatives opened floor debate on Thursday on a Republican-backed bill barring election officials from sending voters unsolicited mail...
May 06, 2021
Twitter shuts down accounts for attempting to evade Trump ban
By Elizabeth Culliford (Reuters) - Twitter Inc suspended several accounts this week that were set up to share statements from a new part of former U.S. President Donald Trump's website, saying they br...
May 06, 2021
U.S. administers nearly 252 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines – CDC
(Reuters) - The United States has administered 251,973,752 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Thursday morning and distributed 324,610,185 doses, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ...
May 06, 2021
Golden Globes organizers approve changes on diversity, ethics
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The membership of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the group that hands out the annual Golden Globe awards for television and film, on Thursday approved widespread chan...
May 06, 2021
Analysis: How Biden plans to add $600 billion to the U.S. ‘care economy’
By Andrea Shalal and Heather Timmons WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden's $4 trillion plan to rebuild the U.S. economy aims a flood of cash at something millions of women in America do for low...
May 06, 2021
U.S. expands effort to allow in vulnerable migrants at Mexico border
By Kristina Cooke, Mica Rosenberg and Ted Hesson SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The United States has begun rolling out a new system to identify and admit the most vulnerable migrants at ports of entry alo...
May 06, 2021
Massachusetts sues Publicis over ties to Purdue Pharma, opioids
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) - Massachusetts sued a unit of French advertising company Publicis Groupe SA on Thursday, accusing it of fueling the U.S. opioid epidemic by using unfair and deceptive ma...
May 06, 2021
Huge new ‘Oracle’ greets Rockefeller Center visitors in New York
(Reuters) - A massive new bronze sculpture welcomes visitors to Rockefeller Center in the New York landmark's first campus-wide show by a single artist. The 25-foot (7.6 m) tall black "Oracle" with a ...
May 06, 2021
Minnesota, Virginia join U.S. states easing COVID-19 restrictions
By Barbara Goldberg (Reuters) - The governors of two more U.S. states said on Thursday they were lifting most restrictions that were put in place to combat the spread of the coronavirus after sharp dr...
May 06, 2021
