Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Chief of Texas’ largest county takes medical leave for depression
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Lina Hidalgo, chief executive of the third-largest U.S. county and the largest one in Texas, has checked in to a medical facility outside the state to be treated for clinical depre...
Aug 07, 2023
US court blocks Biden debt relief rule benefiting defrauded students
By Nate Raymond (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Monday blocked the Biden administration from proceeding with another piece of its student debt relief agenda, an effort to make it easier for peo...
Aug 07, 2023
Brazil official defends progress on protecting forests, blasts EU ban
By Ana Mano SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil believes European Union rules banning products coming from areas of deforestation are "an affront" of World Trade Organization (WTO) rules, Agriculture Ministe...
Aug 07, 2023
Trump argues proposed limits on 2020 election case evidence violate free speech
By Jacqueline Thomsen WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Donald Trump's lawyers told a federal judge on Monday that strictly limiting the public release of evidence ahead of his 2020 election trial would violate h...
Aug 07, 2023
Biden signs law implementing first part of U.S. trade pact with Taiwan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden signed legislation on Monday implementing the U.S. and Taiwan's "21st Century" trade initiative and issued a statement saying certain sections of the la...
Aug 07, 2023
Merchants in Brazil’s Amazon trade natural bounty as leaders discuss environment
BELEM, Brazil (Reuters) - "The Amazon brings people health," said Brazilian merchant Edison Rosa, holding out a handful of glistening, dark purple antioxidant-rich acai berries - touted worldwide as a...
Aug 07, 2023
US government offices close in DC due to severe storm threat
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. government offices in the Washington area closed early on Monday due to a severe storm threat and tornado watch that was disrupting air travel. The Nati...
Aug 07, 2023
Brazil courts private sector help to reforest the Amazon, minister says
By Lisandra Paraguassu BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's government wants the private sector to help reforest large swathes of the Amazon, the country's Environment Minister Marina Silva said in an interv...
Aug 07, 2023
William Friedkin, acclaimed ‘Exorcist’ director, dead at 87 – Variety
By Will Dunham , 2023 (Reuters) - William Friedkin, who achieved cinematic immortality by directing the bleak, gritty 1971 drug-smuggling thriller "The French Connection" and the terrifying 1973 demon...
Aug 07, 2023
Multinational team fights Cyprus wildfire, largely contained
NICOSIA (Reuters) - Firefighting crews from Greece, Israel, Lebanon, Jordan and Britain, were dispatched on Monday to battle a forest fire in Cyprus raging north of the city of Limassol. The blaze bro...
Aug 07, 2023
