Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
U.S. House votes to override Trump veto of key defense bill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives voted on Monday to override President Donald Trump's veto of a $740 billion defense policy bill, in a rebuke to the president that underscored ...
Dec 28, 2020
Ohio police officer fired for fatally shooting unarmed Black man
(Reuters) - A white Columbus, Ohio, police officer was fired on Monday for fatally shooting an unarmed Black man last week in what the city's police chief deemed an act of "senseless violence," accord...
Dec 28, 2020
U.S. SEC says Trump has designated Roisman acting chairman
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump has designated Elad Roisman as the acting chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the top U.S. securities regulator said on Monday. The offici...
Dec 28, 2020
Mudslides a risk from season’s first ‘real’ rain in Southern California
(Reuters) - A winter storm dropping as much as 1.5 inches of rain in lowland areas and as much as 16 inches of snow in the hills and mountains hit Southern California on Monday and brought high wind g...
Dec 28, 2020
Trump administration bolsters order barring U.S. investment in Chinese firms
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration on Monday strengthened an executive order barring U.S. investors from buying securities of alleged Chinese military-controlled companies, following disa...
Dec 28, 2020
U.S. House will take second vote on stimulus checks if first one fails -Pelosi
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the chamber would take a second vote to approve an increase in stimulus checks to $2,000 from $600 requiring just a simpl...
Dec 28, 2020
Over 11.4 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines distributed, 2.1 million administered: U.S. CDC
(Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said it had administered 2,127,143 first doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Monday morning and had distributed 11,445...
Dec 28, 2020
New Yorkers meet in Times Square to say ‘Good Riddance’ to COVID-19, Zoom calls
By Daniel Fastenberg NEW YORK (Reuters) - About a dozen people lined up on Monday to shred things they want to forget about 2020, including but not limited to the deadly global pandemic that swept the...
Dec 28, 2020
U.S. appeals court blocks NY governor’s limits on religious gatherings
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - The federal appeals court in Manhattan on Monday blocked New York state restrictions on the size of religious gatherings put in place to combat the spread of t...
Dec 28, 2020
Biden says many U.S. national security agencies have been ‘hollowed out’
WILMINGTON, Del. (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Joe Biden said on Monday that many national security agencies had been damaged and "hollowed out," reiterating that his transition team was not gettin...
Dec 28, 2020
