Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Biden aims billions in taxpayer money at companies’ labor, supply practices
By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden is using $1.5 trillion in new federal spending to continue his push to reshape the U.S. economy, redirect corporate profits and reverse...
Mar 01, 2023
US Senate moves toward ending ‘forever war’ authorizations
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Senate committee will consider legislation next week that would repeal two authorizations for past wars in Iraq, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said o...
Mar 01, 2023
U.S. directs $315 million to boost clean energy access in rural, tribal communities
By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Rural communities and tribal nations lacking access to reliable energy will begin receiving more than $300 million to develop clean and affordable energy so...
Mar 01, 2023
California fertility clinic sued for using embryo with deadly cancer gene
By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) - A California couple sued a Pasadena-based fertility clinic on Wednesday, saying it allegedly implanted an embryo carrying a rare gene that causes deadly stomach cancer a...
Mar 01, 2023
US farm agency to distribute discrimination payments this year
By Leah Douglas (Reuters) - On the heels of an agency-wide plan to address inequity in its programs, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said it will distribute billions of dollars to farmers who faced...
Mar 01, 2023
New York to pay millions to protesters arrested at George Floyd demonstration
By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City has agreed to pay millions of dollars to demonstrators who sued the police department, saying they had been mistreated during a June 2020 racial justice...
Mar 01, 2023
US to toughen water pollution rules for meat plants
By Leah Douglas WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency intends to update its water pollution rules for slaughterhouses for the first time in nearly 20 years, the agency announ...
Mar 01, 2023
‘Havana syndrome’ not caused by foreign adversary, U.S. intel finds
McLEAN, Virginia (Reuters) - An extensive U.S. intelligence community investigation has concluded it was "very unlikely" a foreign adversary was responsible for the "Havana syndrome" ailments that hav...
Mar 01, 2023
U.S. Senate poised to consider blocking Biden ESG investment rule
By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate will vote later on Wednesday on a Republican measure intended to prevent retirement plans from considering environmental, social and corporate go...
Mar 01, 2023
Controversial U.S. cull kills 19 feral cattle in New Mexico wilderness area
By Andrew Hay TAOS, New Mexico (Reuters) - Nineteen feral cattle have been shot from a helicopter by federal employees in a New Mexico wilderness area in a cull opposed by ranchers and criticized by t...
Mar 01, 2023
