Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Facebook won’t say if its algorithms boosted Trump’s violent rhetoric
By Helen Coster and Paresh Dave (Reuters) - Facebook Inc's oversight board said on Wednesday that the company did not answer questions about whether its algorithms amplified inflammatory posts by then...
May 05, 2021
New York governor says Yankees, Mets to give tickets to fans who get vaccinated at their parks
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York's Major League Baseball teams, the Yankees and the Mets, will give free tickets to fans who get vaccinated for the coronavirus at their ball parks before the games, Gover...
May 05, 2021
Judge vacates U.S. pandemic-related eviction moratorium
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A federal judge on Wednesday vacated a nationwide eviction moratorium for rental properties that had been put in place by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to p...
May 05, 2021
Biden’s Labor Department rescinds Trump-era rule affecting gig workers
By Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden's Labor Department on Wednesday rescinded a Trump-era rule that would have made it easier for businesses to classify workers as independent c...
May 05, 2021
More than 40% of U.S. adults have received COVID-19 vaccine: U.S. CDC chief
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than 40% of U.S. adults have received a COVID-19 vaccine so far, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky told MSNBC in an interview on We...
May 05, 2021
Exclusive: Lilly hit by staff accusations, FDA scrutiny at COVID drug factories
By Dan Levine and Marisa Taylor (Reuters) - Eli Lilly & Co employees have accused a factory executive of altering documents required by government regulators in an effort to downplay serious quality c...
May 05, 2021
Facebook oversight board to rule on Trump’s return to Facebook
By Elizabeth Culliford (Reuters) - Facebook Inc's oversight board on Wednesday will decide whether to uphold the company's indefinite suspension of former U.S. President Donald Trump, in a much-awaite...
May 05, 2021
Analysis-Biden poised to pivot U.S. arms deals toward security, human rights
By Mike Stone WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ninety minutes before President Joe Biden took office on January 20th, the United States signed a $23 billion dollar deal to sell F-35 jets, drones and advanced mi...
May 05, 2021
CDC says U.S. recorded lowest number of births last year since 1979
(Reuters) - The United States recorded a 4% drop in birth rate in 2020, its sixth consecutive annual decline in the number of births and the lowest since 1979, data from the U.S. Centers for Disease C...
May 05, 2021
Colorado officials confirm woman fatally mauled by black bears
By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) - A woman whose mutilated body was found after she went missing during a stroll in the Colorado mountains was confirmed on Tuesday to have been mauled to death and fe...
May 04, 2021
