Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
U.S. holds sale of drilling rights off Alaska coast
By Nichola Groom (Reuters) - The Biden administration on Friday will hold a sale of oil and gas drilling rights off the coast of Alaska, the first federal auction in the region in more than five years...
Dec 30, 2022
Southwest Airlines operations back to normal after being crippled by storm
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Southwest Airlines was up and running on a normal schedule on Friday after a massive winter storm crippled operations this week and exposed problems at the low-cost carrier. Dal...
Dec 30, 2022
New Fed research flags rising risk of U.S. recession
By Michael S. Derby NEW YORK (Reuters) - Just over half of the 50 U.S. states are exhibiting signs of slowing economic activity, breaching a key threshold that often signals a recession is in the offi...
Dec 30, 2022
U.S. House committee set to release Trump’s tax returns, capping years-long battle
By Moira Warburton (Reuters) - A Democrat-controlled U.S. House of Representatives committee was poised to release six years of former President Donald Trump's tax returns to the public on Friday in a...
Dec 30, 2022
Special Report-Boy Scouts, Catholic dioceses find haven from sex abuse suits in bankruptcy
By Kristina Cooke, Mike Spector, Benjamin Lesser, Dan Levine and Disha Raychaudhuri (Reuters) - Lawmakers around the United States have tried to grant justice to victims of decades-old incidents of ch...
Dec 30, 2022
Horse racing-US horse racing authority seeks to vacate ‘unconstitutional’ ruling
By Rory Carroll (Reuters) - Lawyers will ask a federal appeals court to vacate its ruling that a law designed to make horse racing safer was unconstitutional after changes to the Horseracing Integrity...
Dec 29, 2022
Exclusive-U.S. considers airline wastewater testing as COVID surges in China
By Julie Steenhuysen and Nancy Lapid CHICAGO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - As COVID-19 infections surge in China, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is considering sampling wastewater taken fr...
Dec 29, 2022
Biden signs $1.66 trillion FY 2023 government funding bill
CHRISTIANSTED, St. Croix (Reuters) -President Joe Biden on Thursday signed a $1.66 trillion bill funding the U.S. government for fiscal year 2023, the White House said in a statement. Biden signed the...
Dec 29, 2022
New York’s first legal recreational marijuana shop opens
By Dan Fastenberg NEW YORK (Reuters) - The first licensed marijuana store in New York opened on Thursday, more than a year after the state legalized the drug and during delays in setting up the legal ...
Dec 29, 2022
Arizona Democrat Mayes narrowly wins attorney general race after recount
By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) - Democrat Kris Mayes on Thursday narrowly won the fight to become Arizona's next attorney general after a recount, defeating Republican Abraham Hamadeh by just 280 votes i...
Dec 29, 2022
