Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Suspect in Half Moon Bay shooting rampage charged with murder in California
By Alexandra Ulmer HALF MOON BAY, Calif. (Reuters) - A California farm worker was charged on Wednesday with seven counts of murder in the shooting spree that killed seven people, some of them his co-w...
Jan 25, 2023
Factbox-The U.S. Treasury’s tools to avoid breaching debt limit
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As a battle between Republicans and Democrats over raising the federal debt ceiling unfolds, the U.S. Treasury has begun using extraordinary cash management measures to keep the...
Jan 25, 2023
Colombian cartel leader Otoniel pleads guilty to U.S. drugs charges
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The leader of a prominent Colombian criminal group pleaded guilty on Wednesday to U.S. drug trafficking charges, court records showed. Dairo Antonio Usuga David, better known as O...
Jan 25, 2023
California massacres show limits of strict state gun laws
By Joseph Ax and Jonathan Allen (Reuters) - In a span of less than 72 hours, a massacre at a Monterey Park dance studio and a killing spree at two farms in Half Moon Bay left California in anguish. On...
Jan 25, 2023
Chicago high-rise fire leaves one dead, eight injured
By Brendan O'Brien CHICAGO (Reuters) - A fast-moving fire on Wednesday spread to nine floors of a high-rise apartment building on Chicago's South Side, killing one person and injuring eight, including...
Jan 25, 2023
Factbox-Georgia on his mind: Donald Trump troubled by more legal woes
(Reuters) - Donald Trump could learn soon whether he or any associates will be charged or cleared of wrongdoing in a Georgia probe into his efforts to overturn his 2020 election defeat, one of a serie...
Jan 25, 2023
Splits emerge as U.S. House Republicans demand Biden negotiate on debt limit
By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans who control the U.S. House of Representatives are divided over how hard a line to take on the debt ceiling, but were united on Wednesday in demanding...
Jan 25, 2023
Disbarred South Carolina lawyer faces trial in deaths of wife, son
(Reuters) - Opening statements were set to begin on Wednesday in the trial of a now-disbarred South Carolina attorney charged with murdering his wife and son in a complex and grisly case that has draw...
Jan 25, 2023
Divided U.S. House members spar over national security committee seats
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Members of the U.S. House of Representatives traded jabs on Wednesday over Republican Speaker Kevin McCarthy's decision to remove three Democrats from the i...
Jan 25, 2023
Virginia school warned before 6-year-old shot teacher, lawyer says
By Tyler Clifford (Reuters) - Authorities at a Virginia school were warned three times that a first grader had a gun before he shot and wounded his teacher, her lawyer said on Wednesday, as the board ...
Jan 25, 2023
