Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
U.S. bail-bond insurers spend big to keep defendants paying
By Alwyn Scott and Suzanne Barlyn NEW YORK (Reuters) - Insurance companies have spent $17 million to defeat proposals to weaken or abolish the for-profit bail industry in the United States, a system t...
Mar 26, 2021
U.S. Supreme Court weighs taking up major gun rights case
By Andrew Chung NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday will discuss taking up a major new gun rights case involving a National Rifle Association-backed challenge to a New York state law...
Mar 26, 2021
With anti-Asian hate in U.S. rising, parents grapple over whether to talk to their children
By Maria Caspani and Hannah Beier NEW YORK (Reuters) - After eight people were killed in last week's shootings at three Atlanta-area spas, including six women of Asian descent, Stefany Stuber sat down...
Mar 26, 2021
Jacob Blake sues officer who shot him in Kenosha last year
(Reuters) - Jacob Blake Jr., the Black man from Kenosha, Wisconsin who was shot by a police officer last year and was left paralyzed from the waist down, has sued the cop who fired at him in a federal...
Mar 26, 2021
Georgia lawmaker arrested outside governor’s office
(Reuters) - U.S. State Representative from Georgia Park Cannon said she was released after being arrested on Thursday for standing outside governor Brian Kemp's office as he signed a law setting broad...
Mar 26, 2021
Uber to reopen San Francisco offices with limited capacity next week
(Reuters) - Uber Technologies Inc said on Thursday it plans to reopen its offices at Mission Bay, San Francisco, with 20% occupancy on March 29, and provide an option for its staff to return to work o...
Mar 25, 2021
U.S.’s Harris, Canada’s Freeland discuss Central America migration: White House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, in a phone call with Canadian Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland on Thursday, discussed working together to address the root causes contr...
Mar 25, 2021
USC reaches $852 million settlement in gynecologist sex abuse case
By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The University of Southern California has reached an $852 million settlement with more than 700 women who accused an ex-gynecologist on campus of sexually abusi...
Mar 25, 2021
Bid to take back ‘forever war’ authority advances in U.S. Congress
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. House of Representatives committee voted on Thursday to repeal the 2002 Authorization for the Use of Military Force that allowed the war in Iraq, as ...
Mar 25, 2021
Migrant camps swell in Mexican border towns as Central American families flee
By Lizbeth Diaz and Mimi Dwyer MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - As an increasing number of migrants flee humanitarian crises in Central America, makeshift encampments are growing along Mexico's border with the...
Mar 25, 2021
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