Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
U.S. prosecutors want ‘special master’ to review Giuliani evidence
By Jan Wolfe and Karen Freifeld WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors on Tuesday asked a judge to create a process for reviewing evidence seized from the home and office of Rudy Giuliani, Donald Tru...
May 04, 2021
U.S. administers 247.8 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines – CDC
(Reuters) - The United States has administered 247,769,049 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Tuesday morning and distributed 318,474,035 doses, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and P...
May 04, 2021
Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin asks judge for new trial
By Brendan O'Brien (Reuters) -Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin asked a Minneapolis judge on Tuesday for a new trial, court records showed, two weeks after he was found guilty of second-...
May 04, 2021
House Republicans ready vote on Trump critic Cheney’s leadership post: sources
By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives are expected to try to remove Liz Cheney from their party leadership for denouncing former President Donald Trum...
May 04, 2021
Trump launches place to post ahead of Facebook board ruling on his ban
By Elizabeth Culliford (Reuters) - Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday launched a space on his website where he can post messages that can be shared by others to Twitter and Facebook, sites where...
May 04, 2021
Business coalitions urge Texas lawmakers to reject voting restrictions
By Jessica DiNapoli (Reuters) - Two coalitions of business leaders on Tuesday urged Texas state lawmakers to reject any laws that would limit voters' access to ballots, adding corporate America's voic...
May 04, 2021
U.S. watchdog says Black, Hispanic homeowners more distressed than whites
By Katanga Johnson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Black and Hispanic U.S. mortgage borrowers are much more likely to be delinquent or in a "forbearance" program than white borrowers, highlighting how the COVI...
May 04, 2021
Senate Democrats propose $73 billion to shift U.S. to EV transit buses
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two U.S. Senate Democrats on Tuesday proposed spending $73 billion to electrify the nation's 70,000 transit buses as part of a push to move the United States toward zero-emissio...
May 04, 2021
Kevin Spacey accuser cannot sue anonymously, judge rules
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - A man who said he was sexually assaulted at age 14 by the actor Kevin Spacey in the 1980s must identify himself if he is to continue his $40 million civil laws...
May 04, 2021
U.S. House panel to discuss low-carbon fuel with airline, biofuel industries
By Stephanie Kelly and David Shepardson (Reuters) - Members of a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee will meet on Tuesday with representatives from the biofuels and airline industries to discus...
May 04, 2021
