Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
COVID caused brain damage in 2 infants infected during pregnancy -US study
By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) - Researchers at the University of Miami reported on Thursday what they believe are the first two confirmed cases in which the SARS-CoV-2 virus crossed a mother'...
Apr 06, 2023
RSV cases in US show signs of return to pre-pandemic seasonality – CDC
(Reuters) - Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) circulation is showing signs of return to pre-pandemic seasonality in the U.S. after two years of irregular onsets and peaks, the Centers for Disease Cont...
Apr 06, 2023
Senators seek probes into report on undisclosed luxury trips by Supreme Court’s Thomas
By Andrew Chung and John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Conservative U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has for decades accepted luxury trips from a Dallas businessman without publicly disclosi...
Apr 06, 2023
Republican House chairman subpoenas former prosecutor Pomerantz in Trump probe
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Jim Jordan, the Republican chair of the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, on Thursday issued a subpoena to Mark Pomerantz, a former prosecutor who led the Manha...
Apr 06, 2023
CIA’s Burns reaffirmed intelligence cooperation on Saudi Arabia visit – U.S. official
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - CIA Director William Burns visited Saudi Arabia for talks with intelligence counterparts and national leaders "on issues of shared interests," a U.S. official said on Thursday. ...
Apr 06, 2023
U.S. lawmakers invite South Korean president to address Congress
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. congressional leaders on Thursday invited South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol to address Congress on April 27 during his trip to the United States. Yoon is scheduled to me...
Apr 06, 2023
Peru set to jail third ex-president as Toledo awaits extradition from U.S.
LIMA (Reuters) - A U.S. court rejected an appeal by former Peruvian president Alejandro Toledo to stall his extradition over corruption charges, making it likely that he will be the third former leade...
Apr 06, 2023
Stormy Daniels says Trump should not go to prison in hush money case
By Katharine Jackson (Reuters) - Stormy Daniels, the adult film star at the center of the criminal case against Donald Trump, said she does not think the former president should go to prison if convic...
Apr 06, 2023
Robert Kennedy Jr to make 2024 Democratic presidential bid
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a lawyer and vaccine skeptic, will make a bid for the White House in 2024, becoming the second long-shot Democratic candidate to challenge President Joe B...
Apr 06, 2023
Oklahoma eyes first US religious charter school after Supreme Court rulings
By John Kruzel (Reuters) - An Oklahoma school board is set to consider next week whether to approve the first taxpayer-funded religious charter school in the United States in a move that follows recen...
Apr 06, 2023
