Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
U.S. Supreme Court turns down church challenge to Nevada pandemic rules
By Jan Wolfe (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday declined to lift a 50-person limit on religious services adopted by Nevada's Democratic governor in response to the coronavirus pandemic. By a...
Jul 24, 2020
Transgender teen sentenced to life in prison for deadly Colorado school shooting
By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) - A Colorado transgender teenager who admitted to taking part in a shooting at a Denver-area charter school last year that left one student dead and eight others woun...
Jul 24, 2020
Facebook, Twitter remove accounts of Bolsonaro supporters following court order
By Ricardo Brito and Lisandra Paraguassu BRASILIA (Reuters) - Facebook Inc and Twitter Inc took down the accounts of several high-profile supporters of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro following a S...
Jul 24, 2020
Federal judge blocks part of Tennessee ‘heartbeat’ abortion law
(Reuters) - A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked parts of a new Tennessee law that bans abortions once a heartbeat is detected in a fetus, one of the tightest restrictions on the procedure in...
Jul 24, 2020
Anti-communist protesters heckle staff emptying Chinese consulate in Houston
By Gary McWilliams HOUSTON (Reuters) - Staff left China's Houston consulate to a jeering crowd on Friday as the clock ticked down on a U.S. government order to vacate the building after Washington cal...
Jul 24, 2020
States sue Trump over order to exclude undocumented immigrants from U.S. House seat counts
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - A coalition of 35 U.S. states, cities and counties sued President Donald Trump on Friday over his directive not to count undocumented immigrants when apportion...
Jul 24, 2020
‘Spread out? Where?’ Smithfield says not all plant workers can be socially distanced
By Tom Polansek CHICAGO (Reuters) - Smithfield Foods, the world's biggest pork processor, said workers cannot be socially distant in all areas of its plants, in response to U.S. senators who pressed m...
Jul 24, 2020
U.S. House panel confirms delay of Monday’s Big Tech CEO hearing
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. congressional hearing scheduled for next week to question the chief executives of Facebook Inc Amazon.com Inc
Jul 24, 2020
Trump signs orders to lower prescription drug prices
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Friday he was signing four executive orders aiming to lower prices that Americans pay for prescription drugs. One order would allow for ...
Jul 24, 2020
National Zoo in Washington reopens, despite expanded COVID-19 measures
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The National Zoo in Washington partially reopened to visitors on Friday for the first time in more than four months, despite the capital's mayor expanding public health measures...
Jul 24, 2020
