Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Biden to cancel Keystone XL pipeline permit on first day in office: CBC
(Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Joe Biden is planning to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline permit via executive action on his first day in office, CBC News reported on Sunday, citing sources. A briefin...
Jan 17, 2021
Twitter locks account of Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican who promoted QAnon
By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) - Twitter Inc, on Sunday, locked the account of Republican U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a political newcomer known for promoting the baseless QAnon conspirac...
Jan 17, 2021
New Mexico official who vowed to protest Biden inauguration arrested in Washington
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department said on Sunday that it had arrested an elected official from New Mexico who had vowed to travel to Washington with firearms to protest the inaugurati...
Jan 17, 2021
Parler’s website is back online, but app still not in stores
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The chief executive of social media platform Parler, popular with American right-wing users but which virtually vanished after the U.S. Capitol riot, posted a brief message on the...
Jan 17, 2021
Fragile Italian government faces do-or-die votes in parliament
By Crispian Balmer ROME (Reuters) - Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte faces two days of parliamentary votes that will decide if his fragile coalition can cling to power or has lost its majority, pushing I...
Jan 17, 2021
Samsung’s Lee faces sentencing for bribery charge after four years of trials
SEOUL (Reuters) - A South Korean court will sentence Samsung Electronics Co Ltd heir Jay Y. Lee on a bribery charge on Monday, a ruling likely to have ramifications for his leadership of the tech gian...
Jan 17, 2021
“Are you detaining me?” Navalny flies home, and straight into trouble
By Polina Ivanova MOSCOW (Reuters) - Pobeda flight DP936 was a few minutes into its descent towards Moscow's Vnukovo airport, where thousands of supporters of poisoned Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny we...
Jan 17, 2021
GitHub apologizes for firing Jewish employee who warned of Nazis in U.S. Capitol: TechCrunch
(Reuters) - Technology company GitHub has apologized for firing a Jewish employee who cautioned his colleagues about the presence of Nazis in Washington on the day of the assault of the U.S. Capitol e...
Jan 17, 2021
Google disputes Texas’ suit claiming unfair advertising sales practices
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Google said on Sunday that antitrust claims in a Texas lawsuit were "misleading," responding in a blog post as state attorneys general plan suits against the Alphabet Inc unit. In...
Jan 17, 2021
U.S. CDC reports 394,495 deaths from the coronavirus
(Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Sunday reported 23,653,919 cases of the new coronavirus, an increase of 213,145 from its previous count, and said that the numb...
Jan 17, 2021
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