Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
U.S. DoJ says man in North Carolina charged with threatening Biden
(Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Justice said on Thursday that a man in North Carolina was charged with threatening President Joe Biden. A federal criminal complaint against David Kyle Reeves, 27, w...
Feb 11, 2021
Anti-Trump Republicans face major challenge in launching third party
By Tim Reid, James Oliphant, David Morgan and Joseph Ax WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A group of former Republican officials considering a new center-right political party to counter former President Donald ...
Feb 11, 2021
Over her objection, Ghislaine Maxwell’s testimony about massages is unsealed
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - Ghislaine Maxwell denied under oath to having given anyone including the late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein a massage, according to testimony rele...
Feb 11, 2021
Biden blasts Trump’s handling of vaccine, urges patience
BETHESDA, Md. (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden criticized the coronavirus vaccination program he inherited from his predecessor, Donald Trump, on Thursday and urged Americans to have patience as h...
Feb 11, 2021
Biden says there will not be enough COVID vaccines by end of summer to vaccinate all Americans
BETHESDA, Md. (Reuters) - President Joe Biden said on Thursday the United States would not have enough coronavirus vaccine doses by the end of the summer to vaccinate all Americans. Biden made the rem...
Feb 11, 2021
‘This really hit home’: California Chinatown crime wave prompts actors to offer reward
By Nathan Frandino (Reuters) - A crime wave in Oakland, California's Chinatown has rankled the community heading into the Lunar New Year, prompting celebrities to offer a reward to fight anti-Asian ha...
Feb 11, 2021
Man charged with murder in shooting, bombing attack at Minnesota clinic
(Reuters) - A Minnesota man accused of shooting several people and bombing a health clinic he had threatened over a grievance related to a back surgery was charged with murder and attempted murder in ...
Feb 11, 2021
From icy Texas to snowy Seattle, frigid weather blankets huge swath of U.S.
(Reuters) - Winter weather battered the United States from coast to coast on Thursday as a series of storms expected to last for days mixed with an arctic air mass to bring snow and freezing rain as f...
Feb 11, 2021
No current plans to extend April 15 U.S. tax deadline, IRS official says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Internal Revenue Service has no current plans for an automatic extension of this year's April 15 tax filing deadline after a three-month extension last year due to the ...
Feb 11, 2021
‘Oath Keepers’ militia was ready on Jan 6 to act on Trump’s orders, prosecutors say
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Anti-government "Oath Keepers" militia members devised elaborate plans to storm the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 and plotted to have an armed "quick reaction force" ...
Feb 11, 2021
