Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
U.S. Senate committee backs Biden nominee Power to lead USAID
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee backed on Thursday by unanimous voice vote President Joe Biden's nominee to lead the U.S. Agency for International Development, Saman...
Apr 15, 2021
FBI director says U.S. far-right extremists traveled to network in Europe
By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Racially motivated and far-right American extremists have engaged with like-minded activists overseas and traveled abroad to meet with them, the head of the Fe...
Apr 15, 2021
U.S. has no plans to order inmates released in pandemic back to prison: official
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Bureau of Prisons has no immediate plans to send thousands of inmates released during the COVID-19 pandemic back to prison, but to prevent that from h...
Apr 15, 2021
U.S. House Speaker Pelosi says does not support bill to expand the Supreme Court
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House of Representative Nancy Pelosi on Thursday said she does not support proposed legislation to add seats to the U.S. Supreme Court and favors President Joe Biden's appr...
Apr 15, 2021
Derek Chauvin waives right to testify at murder trial for George Floyd arrest
By Jonathan Allen MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) -Former Minneapolis policeman Derek Chauvin waived his right to testify to the jury at his murder trial for the deadly arrest last May of George Floyd. The defe...
Apr 15, 2021
U.S. House committee approves blueprint for Big Tech crackdown
By Diane Bartz WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee has formally approved a report accusing Big Tech companies of buying or crushing smaller firms, Representati...
Apr 15, 2021
Congress poised for battle over reparations for Black Americans
By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives have advanced a bill that could pave the way to reparations for Black Americans as part of a broader effort to ad...
Apr 15, 2021
Former Minnesota police officer charged in Daunte Wright death due in court
(Reuters) - The former Minnesota police officer charged with manslaughter in the fatal shooting of Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, during a traffic stop was scheduled to make her first court a...
Apr 15, 2021
Chicago to release video of police shooting 13-year-old boy
By Brendan O'Brien CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago's police accountability office was expected on Thursday to release to the public body-camera video footage showing a police officer shooting and killing ...
Apr 15, 2021
California, NASA partner to launch methane-tracking satellite
(Reuters) - California and NASA, with the backing of billionaire Michael Bloomberg, on Thursday unveiled a $100 million effort to pinpoint large emissions of greenhouse gases from individual sources l...
Apr 15, 2021
