Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
White House weighing plan to boost emergency home heating oil supply -sources
(Reuters) - The White House is weighing a plan to increase inventories in the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve amid concerns of a supply crunch that could drive up prices and punish inflation-fatigu...
Nov 23, 2022
Colorado Springs shooting suspect appears before judge in video link
(Reuters) - The suspect in the mass shooting that killed five people and wounded 17 at a Colorado Springs LGBTQ nightclub appeared before a judge in a video link from jail on Wednesday, slumped to the...
Nov 23, 2022
Top Georgia court orders U.S. state’s abortion law back into effect -media
(Reuters) - Georgia's Supreme Court ordered on Wednesday that a 2019 abortion law that restricts the procedure once a doctor can detect fetal cardiac activity should be put back into effect while the ...
Nov 23, 2022
Six states urge U.S. Supreme Court to keep block on Biden student debt relief
By Andrew Chung (Reuters) -Six states on Wednesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reject President Joe Biden's bid to reinstate his plan to cancel billions of dollars in student debt that they have a...
Nov 23, 2022
Judge blocks New York limits on carrying guns on private property
By Nate Raymond (Reuters) - A federal judge has blocked New York from restricting the carrying of guns on private property under a Democratic-backed law adopted following the U.S. Supreme Court's June...
Nov 23, 2022
U.S. retailers add cameras, steel cables to deter holiday crime
By Siddharth Cavale and Arriana McLymore NEW YORK (Reuters) - Retailers ranging from Walmart to Barnes & Noble are installing cameras or locking away items to deter shoplifters and thieves as they bra...
Nov 23, 2022
Factbox-Walmart shootings: Episodes of gun violence at retail chain
(Reuters) - Tuesday's massacre at a Virginia Walmart was the latest in a series of gun violence episodes at the retail giant's stores in recent years. Here is a partial list: Nov. 22, 2022: A Walmart ...
Nov 23, 2022
Mass shooting at Virginia Walmart is another ‘senseless’ act, Biden says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday lamented the nation's latest mass shooting after at least six people were gunned down at a Walmart Inc store in Chesapeake, Virginia, Tuesd...
Nov 23, 2022
White House condemns attacks in Jerusalem
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Wednesday condemned two bomb blasts at bus stops in Jerusalem and said the United States had offered to help Israel in its investigation of the attacks, in wh...
Nov 23, 2022
After Club Q attack, LGBT venues grapple with safety concerns
By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) - After the 2016 massacre at the Pulse nightclub in Florida, the owners of New York City gay bar C'mon Everybody hired more security staff, and the LGBT landmark S...
Nov 23, 2022
