Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Missouri state lawmaker charged with selling fake COVID-19 cure
By Rich McKay (Reuters) - A newly elected Missouri state representative faces 20 federal charges accusing her of selling fake COVID-19 treatments at the three health clinics she runs, the U.S. Attorne...
Feb 04, 2021
U.S. releasing hundreds of Central American families from increasingly busy custody
By Mica Rosenberg and Frank Jack Daniel MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - U.S. officials in Texas are releasing an increasing number of Central American migrant families from custody as local authorities in Mex...
Feb 04, 2021
Trump resigns from actors union after facing discipline from Capitol riot
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former President Donald Trump on Thursday resigned his membership in a top U.S. actors and screen union that was reviewing disciplinary action against him after his supporters s...
Feb 04, 2021
Fund for Jeffrey Epstein victims short of cash, pauses payout offers
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - The fund set up to compensate victims of Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuses is short of cash. The Epstein Victims' Compensation Program said on Thursday it will s...
Feb 04, 2021
Fired Ohio police officer under arrest on murder charge in Black man’s shooting
By Rich McKay (Reuters) - A former Ohio police officer, who is white, will appear at a bail hearing on Friday after his arrest on a charge of murder in the fatal shooting on an unarmed Black man in De...
Feb 04, 2021
Smartmatic sues Fox News, Giuliani over election-rigging claims
By Helen Coster (Reuters) - Electronic voting systems maker Smartmatic on Thursday sued Rupert Murdoch's Fox News cable network and Rudolph Giuliani, a lawyer for former President Donald Trump, claimi...
Feb 04, 2021
Union leader says U.S. domestic testing requirements could bankrupt airlines
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A top aviation union leader warned on Thursday that mandatory COVID-19 testing requirements for travelers boarding U.S. domestic flights could devastate the ...
Feb 04, 2021
House impeachment managers ask Trump to testify under oath next week
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House of Representatives impeachment managers asked former President Donald Trump on Thursday to provide testimony under oath about his conduct before the violent breach of...
Feb 04, 2021
Canada’s Suncor Energy reviews mining safety after three workers killed
By Rod Nickel (Reuters) - Canada's second-biggest oil company, Suncor Energy Inc, said on Thursday it had started a third-party safety review, after three contract workers died in two separate mining ...
Feb 04, 2021
U.S. Senate committee backs Biden nominee to be U.N. ambassador
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday backed President Joe Biden's nomination of veteran diplomat Linda Thomas-Greenfield to be the U.S. a...
Feb 04, 2021
