Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Utah governor signs laws curbing social media use for minors
(Reuters) - Utah Governor Spencer Cox on Thursday signed two laws intended to restrict social media use by minors, becoming the first U.S. state to require parental permission for anyone under 18 to u...
Mar 23, 2023
Trial witness against Theranos’ Elizabeth Holmes sues Disney, Hulu over miniseries
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - A key prosecution witness whose testimony helped convict Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes of fraud sued Walt Disney Co on Thursday over a recent Hulu miniseri...
Mar 23, 2023
Parkland parents forcibly removed, arrested at U.S. House hearing on gun control
By Moira Warburton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The parents of one of the 17 people killed in a 2018 mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida, were forcibly removed on Thursday from a U.S. House ...
Mar 23, 2023
US House Republicans working on ‘term sheet’ for debt ceiling vote-Arrington
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives are working on a "term sheet" of conditions they would want Democrats to agree to in exchange for voting to raise the federal go...
Mar 23, 2023
Miami Beach curbs alcohol sales after ‘unruly’ spring breakers violence
By Brad Brooks (Reuters) - The city of Miami Beach curtailed alcohol sales through Monday morning after drunken revelers on spring break got tangled in multiple shootings, fights, assaults and stamped...
Mar 23, 2023
Pentagon probes lapse in Boeing security credentials for Air Force One – WSJ
(Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) is scrutinizing why Boeing Co employees worked on current and future Air Force One planes without the security credentials required for the highly clas...
Mar 23, 2023
Union workers can’t sue under Illinois biometric law, court rules
By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) - Illinois' top court on Thursday said U.S. labor law bars unionized workers from suing their employers for violations of the state's biometric privacy law, which can expo...
Mar 23, 2023
Pro-DeSantis group brings on top political strategist as campaign heats up
By Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A top Republican strategist and adviser to the governor of Virginia has joined a high-dollar fundraising group aimed at getting Florida Governor Ron DeSantis el...
Mar 23, 2023
COVID pandemic erased gains in early autism identification -US report
By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. gains in the early identification of children with autism, considered critical in enabling them to reach their full potential, were largely wiped out by d...
Mar 23, 2023
US House committee chair gives Monday deadline to Blinken in Afghan subpoena threat
By Patricia Zengerle and Simon Lewis WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee on Thursday gave the State Department until Monday to...
Mar 23, 2023
