Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Wildfires spread near Croatia’s Adriatic pearl of Dubrovnik
SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Firefighters battled wildfires that were spreading in the area south of the Croatian Adriatic city of Dubrovnik late on Tuesday, with strong southerly winds preventing deployment ...
Jul 25, 2023
Hundreds of firefighters scramble to put out Portugal wildfire
By Catarina Demony and Miguel Pereira CASCAIS, Portugal (Reuters) - Aided by local residents, hundreds of Portuguese firefighters scrambled on Tuesday to put out flames sweeping across a natural park ...
Jul 25, 2023
Greenpeace says ECB has broken climate pledge with end of bond buying
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Activist group Greenpeace said on Wednesday the European Central Bank has broken a pledge to join the fight against climate change and should take more steps to clean up its huge...
Jul 25, 2023
Bannon co-defendant Shea sentenced to 5-1/4 years over ‘We Build the Wall’ fraud
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) - The sole person convicted at trial of defrauding donors to an online campaign to build Donald Trump's signature wall along the U.S.-Mexico border was sentenced on Tue...
Jul 25, 2023
NASA chief offers Brazil satellite imaging to help stop Amazon deforestation
BRASILIA (Reuters) - NASA Administrator Bill Nelson visited Brazilian space research center INPE on Wednesday and proposed extending satellite partnerships with the United States to help monitor and p...
Jul 25, 2023
US senators express bipartisan alarm about AI, focusing on biological attack
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Both Democratic and Republican senators expressed alarm on Tuesday about the potential for a malevolent use of artificial intelligence, focusing on the possibility of AI being u...
Jul 25, 2023
Billionaire Leon Black is accused in lawsuit of raping autistic girl
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - The billionaire investor Leon Black was sued on Tuesday by an autistic woman who says he raped her in the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein's mansion in Manh...
Jul 25, 2023
Counting Pikachus: Pokemon sleep app entices fans to go to bed
By Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES(Reuters) - Fans who play Pokemon late into the night have a new incentive to get to bed in the form of a sleep app that rewards them with the franchise's signature mon...
Jul 25, 2023
Bryan Cranston calls out Bob Iger at striking actors’ rally
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Emmy-winning "Breaking Bad" actor Bryan Cranston rallied a crowd of striking Hollywood actors on Tuesday with comments directed at Walt Disney Co Chief Executive Bob Iger. Iger an...
Jul 25, 2023
Dioxycle raises $17 million to help develop green ethylene
By Simon Jessop LONDON (Reuters) - French-U.S. climate tech start-up Dioxycle said it has raised $17 million in funding to help develop sustainable ethylene from recycled carbon emissions. The raise c...
Jul 25, 2023
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