Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
U.S. House Financial Services chair to seek documents, hold hearing amid bank collapses – report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of the U.S. House Financial Services Committee said he would request documents and hold a hearing after the collapse of two U.S. banks raised concerns about the banking...
Mar 14, 2023
Lion’s share of Biden’s COVID relief funds delivered to states, local governments
By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two years after enactment of U.S. President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan (ARP), the program has delivered over 10.3 million payments to renter...
Mar 14, 2023
North Carolina’s top court to hear redistricting case with national implications
By Joseph Ax (Reuters) - The new conservative majority on North Carolina's top court will consider on Tuesday whether to overturn the court's decision last year outlawing partisan redistricting, a mov...
Mar 14, 2023
Biden to reinforce background checks for gun buyers
By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden will announce an executive order on Tuesday that reinforces background checks for gun buyers in what the White House is promoting as the most comp...
Mar 14, 2023
Further U.S. involvement in Ukraine is not vital national interest, says DeSantis
(Reuters) - Becoming "further entangled in a territorial dispute between Ukraine and Russia" is not a vital U.S. national interest, said Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who is eying running for preside...
Mar 13, 2023
California court rules drivers can be contractors in win for Uber, Lyft- WSJ
(Reuters) - A California court ruled on Monday that companies such as Uber and Lyft could keep their independent-contractor model for drivers in a boost for the ride-hailing services, the Wall Street ...
Mar 13, 2023
Analysis-Legal challenges could delay Alaska’s Willow oil project
By Clark Mindock and Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The oil industry on Monday cheered the U.S. government's greenlighting of ConocoPhillips' multibillion-dollar oil drilling project in Alaska...
Mar 13, 2023
Texas judge sets hearing in case seeking to ban abortion pill nationwide
By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) - A hearing in a lawsuit by anti-abortion groups seeking to ban the abortion pill mifepristone nationwide will take place on Wednesday, with media groups pressing the judg...
Mar 13, 2023
Top U.S. Republican McConnell to move to rehab after being released from hospital
By Kanishka Singh and David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell was released from a hospital and will continue receiving treatment at a rehabilitation facility, ...
Mar 13, 2023
U.S. to extend humanitarian stay for Ukrainians who entered via Mexico border
By Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Biden administration will allow Ukrainians who entered the United States last year at the Mexico border to renew their humanitarian status, giving them continu...
Mar 13, 2023
