Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Top US House foreign affairs Democrat seeks “pause” on military aid to Egypt
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The ranking Democrat on the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee said on Friday he had asked the U.S. State Department to "pause" a portion of U.S. military financi...
Sep 29, 2023
More than a quarter of US Senate calls on Russia to release US reporter
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Democratic and Republican leaders of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee announced a resolution on Friday calling for the immediate release of Wall Street Journal re...
Sep 29, 2023
New York subways disrupted as more heavy rain triggers flooding
By Jonathan Allen and Brendan O'Brien NEW YORK (Reuters) -Torrential downpours after a week of mostly steady rainfall triggered flash flooding in New York City on Friday, disrupting subway service in ...
Sep 29, 2023
EU’s candidate climate chief takes aim at fossil fuel subsidies, document shows
By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Former Dutch foreign minister Wopke Hoekstra, who is nominated to be the EU's new head of climate change policy, plans to act to phase out fossil fuel subsidies if ...
Sep 29, 2023
Top US general Mark Milley to hand over reins after four years
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top U.S. general Mark Milley will retire on Friday after a four-year tenure that saw successes like the killing of ISIS head Abu Bakr al Baghdadi and helping Ukraine to defend a...
Sep 29, 2023
Biden would veto House bill on spending reduction, border security -White House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden would veto a border security and spending reduction bill passed by the House of Representatives, the White House's Office of Management and Budget said ...
Sep 29, 2023
US government shutdown “unnecessary risk” to resilient economy-Brainard
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White House economic adviser Lael Brainard said on Friday that a government shutdown that could start this weekend was an "unnecessary risk" to a resilient economy now with mode...
Sep 29, 2023
Reaction to Democratic U.S. Senator Feinstein’s death
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Long-serving U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, a California Democrat, has died at 90, a source familiar with the news said on Friday, although Feinstein's office did not immediatel...
Sep 29, 2023
US Supreme Court to weigh state laws constraining social media companies
By Andrew Chung (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to decide the legality of Republican-backed state laws in Texas and Florida that constrain the ability of social media companies to c...
Sep 29, 2023
Long-serving US Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein dead at 90
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Dianne Feinstein, a long-serving Democratic U.S. senator from California and gun control advocate who spearheaded the first federal assault weapons ban and documen...
Sep 29, 2023
