Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Train derailment and fire reported in Maine, CNN reports
(Reuters) - A train carrying potentially hazardous materials derailed and caught on fire Saturday in a village in United States' central Maine, CNN reported citing officials. (Reporting by Shivani Tan...
Apr 15, 2023
Mexico and U.S. search for three American sailors last seen in Sinaloa
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's Navy and the United States are searching for three American sailors who were last seen on April 4 in the northwestern Mexican state of Sinaloa, the U.S. Coast Guard sa...
Apr 15, 2023
Republican Mike Pompeo says he will not seek U.S. presidential nomination
By Tyler Clifford (Reuters) - Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Friday he will not enter the 2024 presidential race, which would have pitted him against his former boss Donald Trump f...
Apr 14, 2023
Biden says he will announce run for re-election ‘soon’
By Steve Holland and Trevor Hunnicutt KNOCK, Ireland (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden said on Friday he has decided to run for a second term and would formally announce his re-election campaign "re...
Apr 14, 2023
Montana lawmakers pass bill to ban TikTok from operating in the state
(Reuters) - Montana lawmakers on Friday passed a bill to ban popular short-form video app TikTok from operating in the state, the latest threat to the Chinese-owned app's existence in the U.S. The bil...
Apr 14, 2023
California prosecutors suggest Cash App founder was slain in dispute over suspect’s sister
By Dan Whitcomb (Reuters) - The tech executive charged with stabbing Cash App founder Bob Lee to death in San Francisco confronted him earlier in the evening about his ties to the suspect's younger si...
Apr 14, 2023
Judge rejects Trump’s bid to learn juror names at defamation trial
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - Donald Trump will not learn the identities of jurors expected to decide at an upcoming civil trial whether the former president defamed the writer E. Jean Carr...
Apr 14, 2023
In signing 6-week ban, DeSantis wades into thorny debate over abortion and 2024
By Joseph Ax (Reuters) - When Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a 15-week abortion ban on April 14, 2022, he held a morning ceremony at a church in front of an enormous "Protect Life" sign, flanked...
Apr 14, 2023
Factbox-Jack Teixeira: Who is the man arrested over leaked Pentagon documents?
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Jack Douglas Teixeira was arrested on Thursday for allegedly leaking a trove of highly classified documents online. Here is what we know about him. FAMILY BACKGROUND The 21-year...
Apr 14, 2023
U.S. charges El Chapo sons, Chinese businessmen with fentanyl trafficking
(Reuters) - The United States has charged leaders of the Mexico-based Sinaloa Cartel with running a fentanyl trafficking operation fueled by Chinese chemical and pharmaceutical companies, U.S. Attorne...
Apr 14, 2023
