Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
American released in transfer between Ukraine, Russians -White House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. citizen has been released as part of a prisoner exchange between Russia and Ukraine, where the war is not likely to wind down before year's end, White House national secu...
Dec 14, 2022
Former Venezuelan treasurer convicted in U.S. of money laundering
MIAMI (Reuters) - A former Venezuelan treasurer who also served as an aide to late President Hugo Chavez has been convicted in the United States for money laundering in association with a corruption s...
Dec 14, 2022
Georgia’s top election official calls for end to runoffs in the state
By Joseph Ax (Reuters) - Georgia's top election official on Wednesday called on lawmakers to eliminate the state's unusual runoff election system, a week after Democrats again prevailed in a runoff fo...
Dec 14, 2022
Oregon governor lifts death sentences for 17 inmates facing execution
By Brendan O'Brien (Reuters) - Oregon Governor Kate Brown, who leaves office at the beginning of the year, has commuted the death sentences of all 17 inmates facing capital punishment in the state, le...
Dec 14, 2022
U.S. owes Sandy Hook families stronger gun laws, Biden says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden marked 10 years since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut on Wednesday by saying Americans should have "societal guilt" for fail...
Dec 14, 2022
U.S. Senate could pass temporary funding bill as soon as Thursday -Schumer
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate could give final approval by Thursday to a one-week extension of federal government funding before the midnight Friday deadline, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Sch...
Dec 14, 2022
Tornado in Louisiana kills mother, son as huge winter storm hits U.S. heartland
(Reuters) - A mother and her young son were killed overnight when a tornado ripped through a rural town in northwest Louisiana, one of a swarm of twisters that touched down in the region as part of a ...
Dec 14, 2022
Ten years after Sandy Hook shooting, Connecticut town spends a day in reflection
By Nathan Layne NEWTOWN, Conn. (Reuters) - Ten years after one of the worst school shootings in U.S. history, residents of the Connecticut town where it took place will mark the anniversary on Wednesd...
Dec 14, 2022
Migrants tell of mass kidnappings in Mexico before crossing into the U.S.
By Jose Luis Gonzalez, Jackie Botts and Daina Beth Solomon CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) - Many of the hundreds of migrants who crossed the Rio Grande from Ciudad Juarez into El Paso this week were ...
Dec 14, 2022
In a small Russian town, a pensioner’s street art denounces Ukraine conflict
BOROVSK, Russia (Reuters) - Over 20 years, Russian pensioner Vladimir Ovchinnikov gained a following for his street murals in the small town of Borovsk, some 70 miles (115 km) southwest of Moscow, man...
Dec 14, 2022
