Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
American Airlines to restart U.S. commercial Boeing 737 MAX flights
By David Shepardson and Tracy Rucinski WASHINGTON/CHICAGO (Reuters) - American Airlines is set to restart U.S. Boeing 737 MAX commercial flights on Tuesday, another milestone for the U.S. planemaker a...
Dec 29, 2020
Battle over $2,000 COVID-19 aid checks shifts to U.S. Senate
By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An unusual battle in Congress over President Donald Trump's demand for $2,000 coronavirus aid checks for Americans shifts on Tuesday to the Senate, where Republi...
Dec 29, 2020
UK needs tighter COVID rules to avert new “catastrophe”, epidemiologist warns
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's government needs to bring in tighter coronavirus lockdown rules to avert a fresh wave of deaths from a new strain of the disease, a leading epidemiologist and government a...
Dec 29, 2020
U.S. judge orders two Georgia counties to halt voter purge ahead of Senate runoff
(Reuters) - A federal judge on Monday ordered two Georgia counties to reverse a decision removing thousands of voters from the rolls ahead of Jan. 5 runoff elections that will determine which politica...
Dec 29, 2020
Brexit ‘big bang’ to trigger tectonic trading rift in Europe
By Huw Jones and Tommy Wilkes LONDON (Reuters) - Europe will see its biggest transfer of share trading in more than two decades when stock exchanges open for business in 2021, with Brexit shifting its...
Dec 29, 2020
A historic oil price collapse, with worries headed into 2021
By Stephanie Kelly and Devika Krishna Kumar NEW YORK (Reuters) - This year was like no other for oil prices. Even as global prices end the year at about $51 a barrel, near the average for 2015-2017, i...
Dec 29, 2020
Police launch probe after Breonna Taylor statue smashed in Oakland, California
(Reuters) - Police said it was investigating what appeared to be an act of vandalism after a statue of Breonna Taylor erected to honour her memory was smashed in Oakland, California. The Oakland Polic...
Dec 28, 2020
FAA to reform new airplane safety approvals after 737 MAX crashes
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said Monday it would reform how it certifies new airplanes in line with legislation passed by Congress after two fa...
Dec 28, 2020
New COVID lockdowns likely in Southern California as ICUs stay filled
By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The United States topped 19 million COVID cases on Monday as hospital intensive care units remained filled to overflowing across much of California, a major U.S...
Dec 28, 2020
Asian shares jump on U.S. stimulus, Japan’s Nikkei at 29-year high
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Asian shares jumped on Tuesday, with Japanese stocks hitting a 29-year high, as hopes that a long-awaited U.S. pandemic relief package would be expanded and a Brexit trade deal su...
Dec 28, 2020
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