Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Golden Globes audience down slightly from last show in 2021
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Roughly 6.3 million viewers watched the return of the Golden Globes on Comcast Corp's NBC network on Tuesday night, according to ratings data released by the company, a slight ...
Jan 11, 2023
U.S. first lady had all cancerous tissue removed after surgery – White House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. first lady Jill Biden had all cancerous tissue removed after spending hours at a military hospital on Wednesday for outpatient surgery, the White House said. "All cancerous...
Jan 11, 2023
Biden aides find second batch of classified documents at new location -NBC News
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Aides to U.S. President Joe Biden have discovered at least one additional batch of classified documents in a location separate from the Washington, D.C., office he used after se...
Jan 11, 2023
Biden has confidence in U.S. Transportation Secretary Buttigieg – White House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden has confidence in Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who has had to deal with the fallout of recent travel disruptions, including a nationwide gro...
Jan 11, 2023
Biden wants others to join Illinois in banning assault weapons – White House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden wants other states to join Illinois in banning assault weapons, White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre said on Wednesday. (Reporting By Steve Holland an...
Jan 11, 2023
Fire rages at Illinois chemical plant, residents ordered to shelter
(Reuters) - A chemical plant in northern Illinois went up in flames on Wednesday morning, sending up plumes of thick black smoke and prompting officials to advise nearby residents to shelter in place ...
Jan 11, 2023
Illinois bans semiautomatic gun sales, legal challenge expected
By Jonathan Allen (Reuters) - Illinois has banned the sale of many common kinds of semiautomatic guns with immediate effect in response to a massacre at an Independence Day parade in Highland Park las...
Jan 11, 2023
Acting FAA chief cancels trip to Mexico after flight computer issue
(Reuters) - The acting head of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is cancelling a planned trip to Mexico Thursday that was to review progress on Mexico's plan to recover a coveted air safety ra...
Jan 11, 2023
Biden says Republicans, Democrats need to unite against Big Tech “abuses” – WSJ
(Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden said in an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal that Democrats and Republicans need to come together to pass strong bipartisan legislation in order to hold maj...
Jan 11, 2023
U.S. Senate Commerce committee to investigate FAA computer outage
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Senate panel will review the cause of a Federal Aviation Administration computer system outage that sparked a nationwide ground stop and delayed or ca...
Jan 11, 2023
