Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Trump says probe of his ex-attorney Giuliani ‘very unfair’
(Reuters) - Former U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday criticized the federal investigation into Rudy Giuliani and said he had no idea what U.S. agents were looking for when they searched his form...
Apr 29, 2021
The four-decade decline in global corporate tax rates
By Leigh Thomas PARIS (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden's plans to raise taxes on corporate America could put an end to a four-decade global drop in corporate taxation levels. Governments worldwide...
Apr 29, 2021
U.S. military pressed to act on wave of child injuries in housing
By Joshua Schneyer (Reuters) - Last April, Kate Needham's one-year-old son Robbie pushed through a screen and plunged from a second story window in the family's rental home near Naval Base San Diego. ...
Apr 29, 2021
Surging U.S. crop prices reverse fortunes in rural Iowa
By Tom Polansek (Reuters) - U.S. farmer Rob Arkfeld was vacationing on a sandy beach in Mexico's Riviera Maya when he won an online auction to rent 535 acres of cropland back home in Iowa by bidding n...
Apr 29, 2021
Biden traveling to voting rights hot spot Georgia to promote plans to rebuild economy
By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden marks his 100th day in office with a trip to Georgia on Thursday, visiting former President Jimmy Carter and pitching his plans to spend tri...
Apr 29, 2021
Can therapy ease the trauma of U.S. racist attacks and systemic racism?
By Sharon Bernstein and Barbara Goldberg (Reuters) - Chinese-American mental health counselor Monica Band started getting a flood of calls and emails soon after former U.S. President Donald Trump bega...
Apr 29, 2021
Biden’s EU trade dilemma: more pain for Harley, distillers or back off metals tariffs?
By David Lawder and Rajesh Kumar Singh WASHINGTON/CHICAGO (Reuters) - The Biden administration faces a major dilemma in its dispute with the European Union over Trump-era steel and aluminum tariffs: b...
Apr 29, 2021
Harris, Jill Biden dress for history and unity at Congress speech
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - History was made at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday night when two women - Vice President Kamala Harris and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi - sat behind the president during his annual...
Apr 28, 2021
CDC ‘committed’ to U.S. cruise industry resuming operations by mid-summer
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is "committed" to the resumption of cruise industry passenger operations in the United States by mid-summer, it said on...
Apr 28, 2021
Biden asks Congress for police reform bill by George Floyd death anniversary
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday urged Congress to pass a police reform bill in the name of George Floyd - a Black man killed under the knee of a white police officer - by ...
Apr 28, 2021
