Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
California city can’t enforce natural gas ban, appeals court says
By Clark Mindock NEW YORK (Reuters) - Berkeley, California, cannot ban natural gas hookups in new buildings because a U.S. federal law preempts its rule, a federal appeals court said Monday, siding wi...
Apr 17, 2023
Analysis-Republican states could be hit hardest by McCarthy’s proposed spending cuts
By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The spending-cut proposals unveiled by U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Monday could fall hardest on people in Republican-leaning states,...
Apr 17, 2023
U.S. charges two New Yorkers with conspiring to act as Chinese agents -statement
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. law enforcement officials have arrested and charged two New York residents with conspiring to act as agents for China's government and operating an undeclared Chinese police ...
Apr 17, 2023
US IRS answered 2.4 million more taxpayer calls due to new funding
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Internal Revenue Service provided live assistance to 87% of taxpayers' phone calls during the 2023 tax filing season, up from 15%, due to customer service hires made po...
Apr 17, 2023
Appeals court affirms conviction of Chauvin for George Floyd murder
By Jonathan Allen (Reuters) -The Minnesota Court of Appeals on Monday upheld the conviction of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd during a 2020 arrest, reje...
Apr 17, 2023
Biden lags recent Democratic presidents in declaring re-election campaign
By Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden is running again, he and White House officials insist, he's just not ready to announce it yet. The expected date for Biden, 80, to m...
Apr 17, 2023
Missouri teen shot by homeowner after going to wrong house
(Reuters) - A Missouri teenager was shot and wounded by a homeowner after the boy mistakenly went to the wrong house to pick up his siblings, police said. Ralph Yarl, a Black 16-year-old, was recoveri...
Apr 17, 2023
Juul, Altria settle with Minnesota over teen vaping addiction
By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) - E-cigarette company Juul Labs Inc and its former largest investor, Marlboro maker Altria Group Inc, on Monday settled claims by the state of Minnesota that they fueled t...
Apr 17, 2023
Judge rejects Trump’s request to delay trial in rape accuser Carroll’s lawsuit
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Monday rejected former President Donald Trump's request to delay a scheduled April 25 trial over whether he defamed former Elle magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll ...
Apr 17, 2023
U.S. ambassador visits WSJ reporter Gershkovich in Moscow prison
(Reuters) - U.S. Ambassador to Russia Lynne Tracy said on Monday she had made a first visit in jail to Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter accused by Moscow of spying, and had found him i...
Apr 17, 2023
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