Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
U.S. Senator Collins defends Romney, Cheney from Republican attacks
By Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senator Susan Collins, a leading moderate Republican in the U.S. Congress, warned on Sunday against intolerance of differences within her party and pushed back...
May 02, 2021
Trump-backed candidate heads to runoff in Texas special congressional election
By Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Texas Republican backed by former President Donald Trump has advanced to a runoff election to fill a U.S. House of Representatives vacancy left by the death ...
May 02, 2021
U.S. Treasury’s Yellen tamps down inflation fears over Biden plan -interview
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Sunday tamped down concerns that President Joe Biden's plans for infrastructure, jobs and families will cause inflation, saying the spend...
May 02, 2021
U.S. administers 243.5 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines – CDC
(Reuters) - The United States has administered 243,463,471 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Saturday morning, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Saturday....
May 01, 2021
Berkshire defends $8 billion Texas power proposal to combat blackouts
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) - Berkshire Hathaway Inc on Saturday defended its $8 billion proposal to build natural gas plants in Texas to help reduce the threat of devastating blackouts such as thos...
May 01, 2021
Oscar-winning ‘Moonstruck’ actress Olympia Dukakis dies at 89
By Will Dunham , (Reuters) - Olympia Dukakis, who won an Oscar for her performance as a sardonic, middle-aged mother who advises her headstrong daughter on matters of love in the 1987 romantic film co...
May 01, 2021
Colorado woman dies in rare black bear attack, authorities believe
By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) - A 39-year-old Colorado woman died in an apparent black bear attack, marking just the fourth fatal mauling in the state since record-keeping began in 1960, authoriti...
May 01, 2021
Exxon Mobil begins escorting workers from Texas plant -USW official
By Erwin Seba BEAUMONT, Texas (Reuters) - Exxon Mobil Corp late Friday began escorting United Steelworkers (USW) union members from part of its Beaumont, Texas, complex ahead of an expected Saturday l...
May 01, 2021
Billionaire Eli Broad dies at 87, helped create Los Angeles art scene
By Dan Whitcomb and Bhargav Acharya LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Eli Broad, the billionaire entrepreneur turned philanthropist and art collector who played an outsized role in shaping the art and cultural ...
Apr 30, 2021
Warrant for Giuliani’s phones and computers seeks communications with over a dozen people
(Refiles to fix typo in "his" in 5th paragraph) By Karen Freifeld (Reuters) -U.S. investigators are seeking to review Rudy Giuliani's phones and computers for communications with more than a dozen peo...
Apr 30, 2021
