Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Trump to approve land swap for Rio Tinto’s Resolution Copper project: U.S. Forest Service
(Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's outgoing administration plans to approve a controversial land swap needed for Rio Tinto Ltd and partners to build an Arizona copper project that Native Americ...
Jan 04, 2021
New York finds first case of more contagious, ‘UK’ strain of coronavirus
(Reuters) - New York Governor Andrew Cuomo says his state has found its first case of the more contagious, "UK" strain of the coronavirus, raising concerns about threats to hospital capacity should it...
Jan 04, 2021
Explainer: Did Trump break the law by pressuring a Georgia election official to ‘find’ votes?
By Jan Wolfe (Reuters) - President Donald Trump may have broken a U.S. federal law and a Georgia law against election tampering by pressuring the state's top election official to "find" enough votes t...
Jan 04, 2021
New York, Florida tell hospitals to speed COVID-19 vaccinations or lose supply
By Carl O'Donnell and Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) - The governors of New York and Florida sought to accelerate the slower-than-expected rollout of coronavirus vaccines by warning hospitals on Mo...
Jan 04, 2021
PM Johnson announces new national lockdown in England
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced a new national COVID-19 lockdown in England on Monday, instructing people to stay at home to contain a more contagious variant of the ...
Jan 04, 2021
In deadliest week so far, U.S. loses more than 18,400 lives to COVID-19
(Reuters) - December was the deadliest month of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States with nearly 78,000 deaths, and health officials warned that even more people will likely die in January de...
Jan 04, 2021
Major U.S. airlines back expanding COVID-19 testing for more international travelers
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A group representing major U.S. airlines on Monday backed a proposal by public health officials to implement a global testing program requiring negative tests before most intern...
Jan 04, 2021
U.S. FCC action to limit key social media protection increasingly unlikely
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The prospects of Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Ajit Pai taking action on an effort to narrow social media companies legal protections unde...
Jan 04, 2021
15.4 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines distributed, 4.5 million administered: U.S. CDC
(Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it had administered 4,563,260 first doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Monday morning and distributed 15,418,500 doses...
Jan 04, 2021
Breakthrough reached in Gulf dispute with Qatar: senior Trump administration official
By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A breakthrough has been reached in Qatar's three-year-old with Saudi Arabia and three other Arab countries and an agreement to end their rift is to be signed in...
Jan 04, 2021
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