Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Oscars show reinvented as a movie — with masks, longer speeches
By Jill Serjeant LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Oscars ceremony next week will have the look and feel of a movie, giving winners more time for speeches, while coronavirus masks will play a major role, pr...
Apr 17, 2021
Biden says he will raise U.S. cap on refugee admissions
WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) - President Joe Biden said on Saturday he will increase the maximum number of refugees admitted this year to the United States from 15,000. The 15,000 cap was first set ...
Apr 17, 2021
U.S. administers 205.9 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines
(Reuters) - The United States has administered 205,871,913 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Saturday morning and distributed 264,499,715 doses, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ...
Apr 17, 2021
U.S. regulators warn consumers on dangers of Peloton’s treadmill
(Reuters) - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) on Saturday warned consumers about the dangers of Peloton's treadmill Tread+ after reports of multiple incidents of small children and a ...
Apr 17, 2021
Power companies urge Biden to implement policies to cut emissions 80% by 2030
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A group of U.S. electricity companies wrote to President Joe Biden this week saying it will work with his administration and Congress to design a broad set of policies to reach ...
Apr 17, 2021
U.S. Sikh group demands probe of possible hate bias in deadly Indianapolis FedEx rampage
By Steve Gorman (Reuters) - Half of the eight workers shot to death at an Indianapolis FedEx facility by a former employee before he killed himself belonged to the Sikh religious community, leading an...
Apr 17, 2021
Chicagoans plan rally for 13-year-old boy killed by policeman
By Brendan O'Brien CHICAGO (Reuters) - Hundreds of Chicagoans are expected to rally on Friday evening to show solidarity with the family of Adam Toledo, a day after the city released a graphic video o...
Apr 16, 2021
Members of Sikh community among victims in Indianapolis Fedex shooting – group
(Reuters) - Members of the Sikh religious community are "among those" dead and wounded in a Thursday night shooting at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis that claimed the lives of eight workers, a commu...
Apr 16, 2021
U.S. sues Trump ally Roger Stone for alleged nonpayment of federal income taxes
By Jan Wolfe (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday sued Roger Stone, saying the close ally of former President Donald Trump owes about $2 million in unpaid federal income taxes, accordi...
Apr 16, 2021
U.S. judge rejects Ghislaine Maxwell bid to dismiss indictment, severs perjury charges
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Friday rejected Ghislaine Maxwell's bid to dismiss an indictment accusing her of aiding the late financier Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuse of young girls between 19...
Apr 16, 2021
