Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
FBI director says China lab leak likely caused COVID pandemic
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - FBI Director Christopher Wray said on Tuesday the agency has assessed that a leak from a laboratory in Wuhan, China, likely caused the COVID-19 pandemic. "The FBI has for quite ...
Feb 28, 2023
Manson family follower Linda Kasabian, key witness at trial, dies at 73 -NYT
(Reuters) - Linda Kasabian, a follower of Charles Manson who served as a star witness for the prosecution in the famed Manson Family murder trial in 1970, has died at 73, the New York Times reported. ...
Feb 28, 2023
Biden urges US carriers to follow American Airlines on family seating
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden on Tuesday called on U.S. airlines to follow American Airlines in committing to eliminating family seating fees as part of their customer...
Feb 28, 2023
US House Speaker McCarthy says he will provide Jan. 6 defendants with security footage
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said on Tuesday that he would provide defendants in criminal cases from the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol with access to t...
Feb 28, 2023
Florida shooting spree suspect faces additional murder charges
By Dan Whitcomb (Reuters) - A Florida man accused of killing three people, including a television journalist and a 9-year-old girl, in a shooting spree last week will face additional first-degree murd...
Feb 28, 2023
US House Democrat opposes giving Biden power to ban TikTok
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee said on Tuesday he opposes a Republican bill that would give President Joe Biden the power to ban Chi...
Feb 28, 2023
U.S. Postal Service plans to buy 9,250 EV Ford delivery vehicles
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) said on Tuesday it plans to buy 9,250 Ford E-Transit battery electric vehicles starting later this year and is ordering more than 14,000 charging ...
Feb 28, 2023
Biden adviser and ‘defender’ leaving White House for senior post at EPA
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Todd Zubatkin, one of U.S. President Joe Biden's top researchers and fact checkers since the early days of his 2020 campaign, is leaving the White House to become a senior advis...
Feb 28, 2023
U.S. FDA panel votes for Pfizer’s RSV vaccine
(Reuters) - A panel of outside advisers to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Tuesday recommended Pfizer Inc's respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine, paving the way for one of the firs...
Feb 28, 2023
Biden nominee says FAA needs permanent leader, warns agency at ‘crossroads’
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Aviation Administration needs permanent leadership and is at a "crossroads," President Joe Biden's nominee to head the agency plans to tell U.S. ...
Feb 28, 2023
