Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Lawmaker quizzes Attorney General Barr on protest surveillance
By Raphael Satter (Reuters) - A U.S. senator on Thursday urged Attorney General Bill Barr to provide an account of how surveillance technology has been deployed against Americans during protests over ...
Jun 11, 2020
U.S. CDC reports 1,994,283 coronavirus cases
(Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Thursday reported 1,994,283 cases of the new coronavirus, an increase of 20,486 cases from its previous count, and said that th...
Jun 11, 2020
Georgia Democrat Jon Ossoff wins nomination to run for U.S. Senate after chaotic vote
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Georgia Democrat Jon Ossoff has clinched his party's nomination for a U.S. Senate seat representing the state, three years after narrowly losing a special House election for a d...
Jun 11, 2020
U.S. lawmakers back new helicopter safety equipment after Kobe Bryant crash
(Reuters) - A group of Democratic U.S. lawmakers on Thursday introduced legislation that would require new safety equipment on helicopters that carry six or more passengers in the wake of a crash that...
Jun 11, 2020
Microsoft declines to sell facial recognition tech to police: Washington Post
(Reuters) - Microsoft Corp will not sell its facial-recognition technology to police departments until there is a federal law regulating the tech, the Washington Post reported on Thursday, citing the ...
Jun 11, 2020
Factbox: What changes are companies making in response to George Floyd protests?
(Reuters) - The corporate response to a wave of protests over the treatment of African Americans has included pledges to increase diversity, donations to civil rights groups and, in some cases, change...
Jun 11, 2020
White House’s top lawyer at the Supreme Court to resign
By Jan Wolfe and Sarah N. Lynch (Reuters) - The U.S. government's top advocate before the Supreme Court, Noel Francisco, who defended President Donald Trump's policies, including the travel ban on peo...
Jun 11, 2020
U.S. Treasury’s Mnuchin considering changes to aid for national security firms
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Thursday he was considering possible changes to the definitions of companies that could access $17 billion in coronavirus aid for ...
Jun 11, 2020
U.S. Democratic candidate Biden urges Facebook to fact-check political ads
By Elizabeth Culliford (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden's campaign published an open letter to Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday, calling for the company to p...
Jun 11, 2020
U.S. Senate panel approves subpoena authority in Trump-Russia probe
By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A divided Senate Judiciary Committee approved sweeping subpoena power on Thursday for a politically charged congressional probe of an FBI investigation into Repu...
Jun 11, 2020
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