Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
New York City’s heavy rain is ‘new normal’ due to climate change, governor says
By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) -Torrential downpours after a week of mostly steady rainfall that brought flash flooding to New York City on Friday were a consequence of climate change and likely reflect ...
Sep 30, 2023
Americans celebrate Jimmy Carter’s 99th birthday as he receives hospice care
By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Americans celebrated the 99th birthday of former President Jimmy Carter this weekend, with the White House putting up a wooden cake display on its north lawn and t...
Sep 30, 2023
India’s monsoon rains hit five-year low due to El Nino
By Rajendra Jadhav MUMBAI (Reuters) - India's monsoon rainfall this year was its lowest since 2018 as the El Nino weather pattern made August the driest in more than a century, the state-run weather d...
Sep 30, 2023
Sleek silhouettes, flowers and a protest mark Hermes show in Paris
By Mimosa Spencer PARIS (Reuters) - Hermes artistic director Nadege Vanhee-Cybulski evoked a country garden for her spring show at Paris Fashion Week on Saturday, seating the audience among wildflower...
Sep 30, 2023
US appeals court blocks venture capital fund’s grant program for Black women
By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -A federal appeals court on Saturday blocked a venture capital fund from moving forward with a grant program that awards funding to businesses run by Black women in a case by...
Sep 30, 2023
Tens of thousands demand climate action in Swiss capital
GENEVA (Reuters) - More than 60,000 protesters gathered in the Swiss capital Bern on Saturday demanding tougher policies to combat climate change, organisers said, less than a month ahead of a nationa...
Sep 30, 2023
California’s Newsom promoting Biden in ’24 – and perhaps himself in ’28
By Joseph Ax (Reuters) - Shortly after Wednesday's second Republican presidential debate concluded, California Governor Gavin Newsom was holding court in the so-called "spin room," bouncing from one n...
Sep 30, 2023
US Congress tees up votes in last-minute scramble to avert shutdown
By Andy Sullivan and David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lawmakers return to the U.S. Congress on Saturday with no clear path to resolving a squabble that appears likely to close wide swaths of the fe...
Sep 30, 2023
Fresno in California becomes only second US city to ban caste discrimination
By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) - Fresno, California, became only the second U.S. city to ban caste discrimination after a unanimous city council vote that added caste and indigeneity as two new protected...
Sep 29, 2023
Texas firm settles US charges it fraudulently took Madoff victims’ money
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Texas investment firm agreed on Friday to pay $2.51 million to settle a U.S. government lawsuit accusing it of fraudulently obtaining payments from a fund me...
Sep 29, 2023
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