Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
New York AG sues NYC police for excessive force against protesters
(Reuters) - New York state Attorney General Letitia James on Thursday sued New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio and the city's police commissioner on Thursday over allegations the police used excessive ...
Jan 14, 2021
Exclusive: Toyota settles U.S. probe into delayed emissions defect reports for $180 million – filing
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp settled a lengthy Justice Department civil probe into its delayed filing of emissions-related defect reports for $180 million, the governme...
Jan 14, 2021
Top U.N. officials urge U.S. to revoke blacklisting of Yemen’s Houthis, warn of famine
By Michelle Nichols NEW YORK (Reuters) - Three top United Nations officials all called on the United States on Thursday to revoke its decision to designate Yemen's Houthis a foreign terrorist organiza...
Jan 14, 2021
U.S. charges MIT professor with failing to disclose Chinese ties when seeking grants
BOSTON (Reuters) - A mechanical engineering professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was arrested on U.S. charges that he failed to disclose his ties to the Chinese government when seeki...
Jan 14, 2021
U.N. food chief warns U.S. designation of Houthis a ‘death sentence’ for innocent Yemenis
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.N. food chief David Beasley on Thursday called for the United States to reverse its decision to designate Yemen's Houthis a foreign terrorist organization and called "the Gulf s...
Jan 14, 2021
U.S. appeals court rules two murderers with COVID-19 can be executed in Trump’s final week
By Jonathan Allen TERRE HAUTE, Indiana (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court ordered that the last two scheduled federal executions under President Donald Trump's outgoing administration could proceed on T...
Jan 14, 2021
Man who threw fire extinguisher at police in U.S. Capitol is arrested
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Pennsylvania man who allegedly threw a fire extinguisher at police during the riots at the U.S. Capitol has been arrested, a U.S. Justice Department spokeswo...
Jan 14, 2021
Fourth U.S. lawmaker tests positive for COVID-19 after U.S. Capitol attack
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Representative Andriano Espaillat on Thursday said he had tested positive for COVID-19, becoming the fourth member of Congress to announce they had contracted the coronavir...
Jan 14, 2021
La Niña to persist until March, says U.S. weather forecaster
(Reuters) - There is an about 95% chance of the La Nia weather pattern prevailing through the Northern Hemisphere winter from January to March, a U.S. government weather forecaster said on Thursday. A...
Jan 14, 2021
Top U.S. Justice Dept antitrust official to resign effective Jan 19
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top antitrust official in the U.S. Justice Department, Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim, told the White House he will resign effective January 19, a day before the ...
Jan 14, 2021
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