Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Biden to attack House Republicans in economic speech
By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden will use a speech at a steamfitters union hall on Thursday to launch an attack against Republicans who control the U.S. House of Representat...
Jan 26, 2023
Frank talks and frustration: How the U.S. got to yes on Abrams tanks
By Phil Stewart, Idrees Ali, Steve Holland and Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) - They are expensive and hard to maintain. They run on jet fuel. And they are difficult to operate. The U.S. Pentagon ...
Jan 25, 2023
Gentle soul, accordion player, mushroom lover: Half Moon Bay victim mourned
By Alexandra Ulmer HALF MOON BAY, Calif. (Reuters) - When friends of farm supervisor Marciano Martinez heard of the shooting at the Half Moon Bay mushroom plantations on Monday, they had a sinking fee...
Jan 25, 2023
U.S. Southwest flight cancellation probe looks at scheduling practices
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Transportation Department (USDOT) said on Wednesday it is in the initial phase of its investigation into Southwest Airlines' massive December flight cancellations. The ...
Jan 25, 2023
U.S. activists protest plan to ship Asha the wolf to Mexico
By Andrew Hay TAOS, N.M. (Reuters) - Environmentalists on Wednesday protested U.S. government plans to transfer an endangered Mexican Gray Wolf captured in New Mexico to Mexico, saying it should be al...
Jan 25, 2023
U.S. FDA joins global regulators probing tainted overseas cough syrup
By Patrick Wingrove (Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Wednesday it is working with the World Health Organization and foreign regulatory authorities to support an investigation i...
Jan 25, 2023
Juan Valdez coffee exec gets 3-6 years prison in New York over $900,000 theft
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former top executive at the North American operator of Juan Valdez coffee has been sentenced to between three and six years in a New York state prison after ...
Jan 25, 2023
Meta to restore Donald Trump’s Facebook, Instagram accounts
(Reuters) - Meta Platforms Inc said on Wednesday it will restore former U.S. President Donald Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts in the coming weeks, following a two-year suspension after the dea...
Jan 25, 2023
U.S. arrests of Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan and Venezuelan migrants plummet under new restrictions
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela caught crossing the U.S.-Mexico border dropped 97% from December to January following new restrictions by U.S. P...
Jan 25, 2023
U.S. finds Louisiana deliberately kept inmates past release date
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Justice Department found Louisiana violated the U.S. Constitution by confining people in its custody past the dates when they were legally entitled to be r...
Jan 25, 2023
