Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Kansas professor avoids prison in blow to Trump-era China-related probe
By Nate Raymond (Reuters) - A University of Kansas professor avoided prison on Wednesday for making a false statement related to work he was doing in China in the latest setback for a Trump-era U.S. D...
Jan 18, 2023
N.Y. Governor Hochul’s pick for top judge rebuffs claims he is too conservative
By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) - Democratic New York Governor Kathy Hochul's nominee to become the state's chief judge pushed back on Wednesday against critics who claim he is too conservative for the j...
Jan 18, 2023
Two U.S. citizens, two legal permanent U.S. residents among those killed in Nepal crash
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two U.S. citizens and two legal permanent U.S. residents were among those killed in Nepal's worst air disaster in 30 years, in which at least 71 people died including small chil...
Jan 18, 2023
U.S. Supreme Court declines to block New York gun restrictions
By Andrew Chung (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday turned away a challenge by a group of firearms dealers in New York to numerous Democratic-backed measures adopted by the state last year ...
Jan 18, 2023
White House calls Lavrov’s Holocaust comparison ‘truly offensive’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Wednesday called Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's statement comparing the United States' assembly of a coalition to take on Russia to Adolf Hitler's a...
Jan 18, 2023
Columbia University names economist Nemat Shafik as first woman president
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Columbia University named former Bank of England Deputy Governor and current London School of Economics President Nemat "Minouche" Shafik as its president, mar...
Jan 18, 2023
Massachusetts man charged with wife’s murder searched how to dispose of body – prosecutor
By Nate Raymond (Reuters) - A Massachusetts man charged with murdering his wife searched online for "dismemberment and the best ways to dispose of a body" after she was last seen on New Year's Day, a ...
Jan 18, 2023
Exclusive-U.S. energy chief warns Republicans that oil bill would raise pump prices
By Nandita Bose and Jarrett Renshaw WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm warned Republicans in a letter seen by Reuters on Wednesday that limiting President Joe Biden's autho...
Jan 18, 2023
Fed’s Powell tests positive for COVID, has mild symptoms
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday and is experiencing mild symptoms, the U.S. central bank said in a statement. Powell is up to date o...
Jan 18, 2023
U.S. to announce international cryptocurrency action -statement
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department will "announce a major, international cryptocurrency enforcement action" on Wednesday, it said in a statement, without offering further details. U.S....
Jan 18, 2023
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