Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Massive snowstorm targets large swath of United States
(Reuters) - A powerful winter storm system moved across the U.S. Northwest, Plains and Southwest on Monday, bringing frigid temperatures, blizzard-like conditions and freezing rains that threatened to...
Dec 12, 2022
U.S. court hears testimony on diplomatic status of ally of Venezuela’s Maduro
By Brian Ellsworth MIAMI (Reuters) - A U.S. court on Monday began hearing testimony from Venezuelan officials on the diplomatic status of Alex Saab, an ally of President Nicolas Maduro who is in a Mia...
Dec 12, 2022
U.S. Supreme Court takes up second Biden appeal in student debt plan fight
By Andrew Chung (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear President Joe Biden's appeal of a judge's ruling that found his plan to cancel billions of dollars in student debt unlawful,...
Dec 12, 2022
U.S. Supreme Court rejects Michigan State’s appeal in Title IX swimming case
By Nate Raymond (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to consider how strictly to interpret the landmark Title IX civil rights law's protections for gender equality in college sports i...
Dec 12, 2022
U.S. Congress creeps toward deadline to pass $1.5 trillion funding bill
By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress faces a Friday deadline to fund the federal government, as Democrats and Republicans bicker over the details of an expected roughly $1.5 trill...
Dec 12, 2022
U.S. opioid crackdown hits some patients’ access to psychiatric drugs
By Ahmed Aboulenein WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A crackdown by U.S. drug wholesalers in response to the opioid crisis is preventing some pharmacists from dispensing a combination of stimulants and sedative...
Dec 12, 2022
U.S. says working on ‘next steps’ to secure release of Whelan from Russia
By Andrea Shalal and Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Biden administration officials will meet early Monday to discuss next steps in securing the release of former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan, who ...
Dec 11, 2022
TC Energy says has not found cause of Keystone oil pipeline leak
(Reuters) - Canada's TC Energy said on Sunday it has not yet determined the cause of the Keystone oil pipeline leak last week in the United States, while also not giving a timeline as to when the pipe...
Dec 11, 2022
NASA’s Orion capsule heads for splashdown after Artemis I flight around moon
By Joey Roulette and Steve Gorman (Reuters) - NASA's uncrewed Orion capsule hurtled through space on Sunday on the final return leg of its voyage around the moon and back, winding up the inaugural mis...
Dec 11, 2022
Hawaii volcano alert level lowered to watch – USGS
(Reuters) - Lava and volcanic gas emissions at Hawaii's Mauna Loa, the world's largest active volcano, declined on Saturday, the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said. As a...
Dec 10, 2022
