Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Fox News asks for Smartmatic lawsuit over election-rigging claims to be dismissed
(Reuters) - Rupert Murdoch's Fox News Media said on Monday it filed a motion to dismiss electronic voting systems maker Smartmatic's lawsuit that has claimed that the media group accused it of helping...
Feb 08, 2021
Ex-Trump aide Manafort cannot be prosecuted in New York following pardon: court
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York state's highest court has rejected the Manhattan district attorney's effort to prosecute Paul Manafort, the onetime campaign chairman for former U.S. President Donald Tru...
Feb 08, 2021
U.S. transportation chief will quarantine for 14 days after agent tests positive
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg will quarantine for 14 days after a member of his security detail tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday, the department said. The d...
Feb 08, 2021
Exclusive: Georgia Secretary of State opens investigation into Trump’s efforts to overturn election
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Georgia Secretary of State's office has formally opened an investigation into former U.S. President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the state's 2020 election results, an offi...
Feb 08, 2021
Hackers broke into Florida town’s water treatment plant, attempted to poison supply, sheriff says
(Reuters) - Hackers broke into a water treatment facility that serves the city of Oldsmar in Florida on Friday and attempted to poison the water supply, according to a press conference on Monday by Pi...
Feb 08, 2021
U.S. drops challenge to California state net neutrality law
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department on Monday withdrew its 2018 legal challenge to the state of California's state net neutrality law after the Trump administration had asked a court to...
Feb 08, 2021
Impeachment expert says Trump’s lawyers distorted his work ‘quite badly’
By Jan Wolfe (Reuters) - A U.S. law professor who studies impeachment says former President Donald Trump's lawyers misrepresented his research in a brief laying out arguments they will make at his U.S...
Feb 08, 2021
U.S. educators wrangle over school re-opening
By Brendan O'Brien and Barbara Goldberg (Reuters) - Educators in major cities including Chicago and Philadelphia on Monday called for strong COVID-19 safety protocols in their classrooms as those and ...
Feb 08, 2021
U.S. COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations log biggest weekly drops since pandemic started
(Reuters) - The United States reported a 25% drop in new cases of COVID-19 to about 825,000 last week, the biggest fall since the pandemic started, although health officials said they were worried new...
Feb 08, 2021
Ghislaine Maxwell loses bid to keep deposition excerpt secret
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. judge has rejected Ghislaine Maxwell's effort to keep under wraps an excerpt from a 2016 deposition that she fears could threaten her criminal trial on charges she aided th...
Feb 08, 2021
