Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Futures rise in pre-Christmas trade; Alibaba falls on China probe
By Devik Jain and Ambar Warrick (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures rose on Thursday ahead of a shortened trading session on hopes of a gradual economic rebound, while Alibaba slumped after China lau...
Dec 24, 2020
In Brazil, vaccine trial volunteers hope to save lives, not win fame
By Amanda Perobelli SAO PAULO (Reuters) - From doctors weary of seeing patients die to relatives who lost their loved ones, thousands of Brazilians have volunteered for COVID vaccine trials in one of ...
Dec 24, 2020
Pandemic prompts Wall Street to look south for Florida’s life and work benefits
By Svea Herbst-Bayliss BOSTON (Reuters) - A bevy of Wall Street executives, bankers and fund managers are abandoning New York for Florida, embracing the Sunshine State over metropolitan New York as th...
Dec 24, 2020
Democrats want rushed vote on Trump’s $2,000 coronavirus aid checks
By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday aim to win quick passage of legislation providing $2,000 in direct payments to Americans as part of a...
Dec 24, 2020
Laptops, desktop sales see ‘renaissance;’ shortages won’t ease until 2022
By Paresh Dave OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) - The world stocked up on laptop and desktop computers in 2020 at a level not seen since the iPhone debuted in 2007, and manufacturers still are months away fr...
Dec 24, 2020
‘What’s the alternative?’ SolarWinds boosts security firms’ bottom lines
By Paresh Dave OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) - Cybersecurity providers including FireEye Inc and Microsoft Corp could not prevent a huge network breach disclosed this month by numerous U.S. agencies and c...
Dec 24, 2020
U.S. states enlist medical, nursing students to give out COVID-19 vaccine
By Tina Bellon and Melissa Fares NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. states, facing a backlog in administering coronavirus vaccines, are asking medical and nursing students, and even firefighters, to help give ...
Dec 24, 2020
Special Report-How a British COVID-19 vaccine went from pole position to troubled start
By Steve Stecklow, Andrew MacAskill, Ludwig Burger, Kate Kelland and Emilio Parodi LONDON (Reuters) - On June 5, researchers at the University of Oxford quietly made a change to a late-stage clinical ...
Dec 24, 2020
‘Like water eroding rocks’: Thai protesters prepare for long fight
By Patpicha Tanakasempipat, Chayut Setboonsarng and Matthew Tostevin BANGKOK (Reuters) - As they paraded through a Bangkok shopping mall in crop tops to mock Thailand's king, protesters made an incong...
Dec 24, 2020
The blast that blew away Lebanon’s faith in itself
By Samia Nakhoul BEIRUT (Reuters) - They gather in groups, wearing black, in the shadow of buildings gutted by the explosion that shook this city on Aug. 4. Men, women and children from Christian and ...
Dec 24, 2020
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