Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
San Diego gorillas recovering from COVID-19, zoo says
By Sharon Bernstein (Reuters) - A troop of gorillas at the San Diego Zoo's Safari Park is recovering from an outbreak of COVID-19 that sickened several of the group's eight members, the zoo said in a ...
Jan 25, 2021
Pro-Trump lawyer Lin Wood fired by teen who faced off with Native American in viral video
By Jan Wolfe BOSTON (Reuters) - A Kentucky teenager whose 2019 face-off with a Native American activist in Washington went viral has fired his lawyer, a man who played a key role in Donald Trump's att...
Jan 25, 2021
Biden says he is open to negotiating the proposed $1,400 COVID stimulus checks
By Alexandra Alper and Jarrett Renshaw NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden said on Monday that he is open to negotiating the eligibility requirements of his proposed $1,4000 COVID stimulus c...
Jan 25, 2021
Biden says 100-day goal on vaccinations may rise to 150 million instead of 100 million
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden said on Monday he might be able to raise to 150 million his 100-day goal of administering 100 million vaccination shots for the coronavirus. Biden told ...
Jan 25, 2021
U.S. new COVID cases down 21% in past week, deaths fall from peak
(Reuters) - The United States reported a 21% drop in new cases of COVID-19 last week, as all but one state reported declines in new infections, and the number of coronavirus patients in hospitals also...
Jan 25, 2021
Trump-supporting Newsmax partners with conservative political group for new cable show
By Helen Coster (Reuters) - Cable TV network Newsmax, promoted by former President Donald Trump while in office, is partnering with the conservative political nonprofit group FreedomWorks on a Sunday ...
Jan 25, 2021
Senator Leahy expected to preside over Trump’s impeachment trial -Senate source
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate's longest-serving member, Patrick Leahy, is expected to preside over the upcoming impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump, a Senate source said on Mon...
Jan 25, 2021
Georgia legislators, citing Reuters report, want every jail death investigated
By Ned Parker (Reuters) - Troubled by deaths and questionable care in the state's jails, several Georgia legislators convened Monday to explore reforms including requiring the state to investigate eve...
Jan 25, 2021
Tribes exempt from pause in U.S. federal drilling program -official
(Reuters) - Native American tribes are exempt from the Biden administration's temporary suspension of U.S. oil and gas leasing and permitting on federal lands, a spokesman for the U.S. Department of I...
Jan 25, 2021
U.S. Treasury resuming steps to put Harriet Tubman on $20 bill: White House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury Department is taking steps to resume efforts to put escaped slave and abolitionist Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said o...
Jan 25, 2021
