Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Judge orders Oath Keepers member detained over charges he plotted to storm U.S. Capitol
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal judge in Ohio ordered that Oath Keepers member Donovan Crowl be detained pending trial, after prosecutors charged him with conspiring with other memb...
Jan 22, 2021
Gun incident involving Republican lawmaker prompts police probe
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Capitol Police on Friday were investigating an incident in which a Republican lawmaker was found carrying a concealed gun while trying to enter the floor of the House of Re...
Jan 22, 2021
Man accused of murdering NYC elderly housing residents due in court
(Reuters) - A man accused of murdering at least three elderly residents of a senior housing development in New York City over the span of six years was due to appear in a Brooklyn court on Friday. The...
Jan 22, 2021
Russia says TikTok deletes some posts promoting illegal pro-Navalny protest
By Anton Zverev and Gabrielle Ttrault-Farber MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Friday that TikTok had deleted some of what it called illegal posts promoting weekend protests aimed at securing the rele...
Jan 22, 2021
U.S. factory activity near 14-year high; home sales rise in December
By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. manufacturing activity surged to its highest level in nearly 14 years in early January, but bottlenecks in the supply chain caused by the COVID-19 pandemi...
Jan 22, 2021
Former MLB home run king Hank Aaron dead at 86
(Reuters) - Baseball Hall of Famer Hank Aaron, the quiet, unassuming baseball slugger who broke Babe Ruth's supposedly unbreakable record for most home runs in a career, died on Friday, the Atlanta Br...
Jan 22, 2021
Majority of U.S. Senate approves Biden nominee Austin to lead Pentagon
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Friday confirmed President Joe Biden's nominee, retired Army General Lloyd Austin, to serve as Secretary of Defense - the first Black Ame...
Jan 22, 2021
Lengthy jail terms given to men involved in Vietnamese truck deaths
LONDON (Reuters) - Four men were given lengthy jail terms on Friday for the manslaughter of 39 Vietnamese men, women and children who suffocated to death in a stifling, airtight shipping container in ...
Jan 22, 2021
U.S. House to deliver Trump impeachment to Senate on Monday: Schumer
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives will deliver an impeachment measure charging former President Donald Trump with inciting insurrection to the Senate on Monday, starting a trial...
Jan 22, 2021
Twitter suspends account of Iranian Supreme Leader after apparent Trump threat
DUBAI (Reuters) - Twitter suspended an account linked to Iran's Supreme Leader on Friday, hours after it carried the image of a golfer resembling former President Donald Trump apparently being targete...
Jan 22, 2021
