Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
No shot: U.S. schools unlikely to mandate COVID-19 vaccines anytime soon
By Brad Brooks (Reuters) - Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine won approval for use in children as young as 12 from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration this week - but do not expect schools to require shots f...
May 13, 2021
U.S. weekly jobless claims fall; producer prices surge in April
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fewer Americans filed new claims for unemployment benefits last week, as companies held on to their workers amid the growing labor shortage that helped to curb job growth in Apr...
May 13, 2021
Ex-White House lawyer McGahn agrees to U.S. House interview – panel chairman
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Don McGahn, who served as White House counsel under former U.S. President Donald Trump, has agreed to be interviewed by the House Judiciary panel after a years-long legal battle...
May 13, 2021
McDonald’s-owned U.S. restaurants boost pay to lure new workers
By Lisa Baertlein LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - McDonald's Corp announced on Thursday a 10% average hourly pay raise at the nearly 660 U.S. restaurants it operates, joining the industry's scramble to lure w...
May 13, 2021
When Biden meets Putin: old foes could cool off but not reset
By Steve Holland, Humeyra Pamuk and Andrew Osborn WASHINGTON/MOSCOW (Reuters) - The United States and Russia are lowering expectations for big breakthroughs at a superpower summit between U.S. Preside...
May 13, 2021
As drought dries California rivers, salmon take truck rides to sea
By Sharon Bernstein GOLD RIVER, Calif. (Reuters) - During a typical spring, the silver young salmon swimming in long tanks at the Nimbus Fish Hatchery east of Sacramento would be released into the Ame...
May 13, 2021
Top U.S. fuel pipeline recovering from devastating ransomware attack
(Reuters) - After a six-day outage, the top U.S. fuel pipeline on Thursday moved some of the first millions of gallons of motor fuels to East Coast states after throwing off a crippling cyberattack. T...
May 13, 2021
Yang sits atop mayoral field vying to revive a battered New York City
By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - Andrew Yang, the former presidential candidate and now New York City mayoral hopeful, bounded into a liquor store this week and listened as its owner shared how the b...
May 13, 2021
Ohio governor offers chance at $1 million prize to get vaccinated
By Dan Whitcomb (Reuters) - As U.S. political leaders grow increasingly desperate to persuade Americans to get the coronavirus vaccine, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine on Wednesday topped offers of baseball...
May 12, 2021
Suspect in New York Times Square shootings arrested in Florida
By Peter Szekely NEW YORK (Reuters) - The man wanted in the weekend shooting of three bystanders, including a 4-year-old girl, in New York's Times Square was arrested near Jacksonville, Florida, on We...
May 12, 2021
