Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Perdue in quarantine after COVID-19 contact just days before Senate runoff
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - David Perdue, one of two Republican U.S. senators facing a runoff election next week, is quarantining after coming in contact with someone who tested positive for COVID-19, his ...
Dec 31, 2020
Exclusive-Drugmakers to hike prices for 2021 as pandemic, political pressure put revenues at risk
By Michael Erman and Carl O'Donnell NEW YORK (Reuters) - Drugmakers including Pfizer Inc, Sanofi SA, and GlaxoSmithKline Plc plan to raise U.S. prices on more than 300 drugs in the United States on Ja...
Dec 31, 2020
More than 2.8 million have voted early in Georgia’s U.S. Senate runoff
By Jason Lange WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than 2.8 million Georgians have voted so far in a U.S. Senate runoff election, according to state data published on Thursday about the closely watched race t...
Dec 31, 2020
Ontario finance minister resigns amid outrage over Caribbean holiday
By Maiya Keidan TORONTO (Reuters) - Ontario's Finance Minister Rod Phillips resigned on Thursday after public outrage over a Caribbean vacation he took earlier this month in violation of his own gover...
Dec 31, 2020
Times Square barricaded, quiet for New Year’s Eve
By Dan Fastenberg and Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City's Times Square was barricaded on Thursday, with only a handful of invited guests, including health care workers and others from ...
Dec 31, 2020
Theaters look to Bond and Black Widow to spark 2021 moviegoing
By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Movie theater operators, after a year of dismal ticket sales during the pandemic, are hoping a lineup of superheroes, fighter pilots and cinema's most famous s...
Dec 31, 2020
New York City aims to vaccinate 1 million against COVID-19 by end of January
By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) -New York City aims to vaccinate 1 million residents against the coronavirus by the end of January 2021, Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Thursday. He said the effort ...
Dec 31, 2020
Trump to forgo New Year’s Eve in Florida for early return to Washington
By Jeff Mason WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday was due to fly back to Washington a day earlier than planned, as he continued his fight with Congress over a defe...
Dec 31, 2020
U.S. weekly jobless claims fall for second straight week
(Reuters) - The number of Americans filing first-time claims for unemployment benefits unexpectedly fell last week but remain elevated more than nine months into the health and economic crisis trigger...
Dec 31, 2020
Futures muted in the last trading session of 2020
By Devik Jain (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures were muted in the last trading session of a tumultuous year on Thursday, as investors digested big market gains and hoped that more stimulus and coro...
Dec 31, 2020
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