Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Explainer-How Reuters analyzed emission rates for U.S. campus power plants
By Tim McLaughlin and M.B. Pell (Reuters) - U.S. colleges like to stress their green credentials. Many also use some of the dirtiest fuels to power their campuses - and crank out pollution at higher r...
Nov 11, 2022
‘Start adding zeroes’: Big money expected to pour into Georgia midterm runoff
By Nathan Layne (Reuters) - Even before the contest in Georgia between Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock and his Republican challenger Herschel Walker headed for a Dec. 6 runoff, a staggering $262 mi...
Nov 11, 2022
Biden administration toughens crackdown on oil industry methane
By Valerie Volcovici SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt - (Reuters) - President Joe Biden's administration will toughen a proposed crackdown on methane emissions from the U.S. oil and gas industry by requiring dr...
Nov 11, 2022
GSK to limit U.S. use of ovarian cancer drug to some populations
(Reuters) - Britain's GSK will limit the use of its ovarian cancer treatment Zejula in the United States, to patients with some particular mutations when being given as a second option to maintain the...
Nov 11, 2022
U.S. FDA approves AstraZeneca’s lung cancer drugs
(Reuters) - Drugmaker AstraZeneca said on Friday its lung cancer drugs Imfinzi and Imjudo have been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) when used along with chemotherapy for treatm...
Nov 11, 2022
Factbox-Over 62,000 without power in Florida from storm Nicole
(Reuters) - More than 62,000 homes and businesses in Florida were still without power on Friday after storm Nicole crashed into the state's east coast. Utilities have already restored service to nearl...
Nov 11, 2022
Standing ovations for conservative U.S. justices at Federalist Society event
By Jacqueline Thomsen WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito and Amy Coney Barrett received standing ovations from members of the conservative Federalist Society on Thursday a...
Nov 10, 2022
Control of U.S. Congress hangs in balance with key contests still unresolved
By Tim Reid and Joseph Ax PHOENIX (Reuters) - All eyes in the political world were trained on Friday on Arizona and Nevada, where hundreds of thousands of uncounted votes held the key to control of th...
Nov 10, 2022
Noose found at Obama Presidential Center construction site in Chicago
By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) - Chicago police are investigating a noose that was found at the construction site of the Obama Presidential Center on Thursday, an act the Illinois governor condemned as a ...
Nov 10, 2022
India, U.S. are natural allies – Yellen
By David Lawder NOIDA, India (Reuters) - The United States and India are natural allies that can show the rest of the world that democracies can deliver for their citizens, despite volatility and war,...
Nov 10, 2022
