Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Exclusive: Blackstone in talks to merge Alight with blank-check acquisition firm
By David French and Mike Spector NEW YORK (Reuters) - Private equity firm Blackstone Group Inc is in talks to merge U.S. benefits services provider Alight Solutions LLC with a blank-check acquisition ...
Dec 19, 2020
UK ministers discuss COVID-19 concern amid rise in cases
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was holding a conference call with his senior ministers on Saturday to discuss concern over a new strain of the COVID-19 virus which is rising a...
Dec 19, 2020
Click, then drive: Last-minute U.S. holiday shoppers do curbside pickup
By Melissa Fares NEW YORK (Reuters) - Many U.S. holiday shoppers, wary of going into stores during the latest surge of the COVID-19 pandemic, went from their computers, phones or other devices to thei...
Dec 19, 2020
Moderna, McKesson and U.S. Army general ready to roll out new COVID-19 vaccine
By Joseph White and Lisa Baertlein DETROIT/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. distribution of a second COVID-19 vaccine, from Moderna, is ready to start shipping to more than 3,800 sites this weekend, vastl...
Dec 19, 2020
Explainer-U.S. government hack: espionage or act of war?
By Jan Wolfe and Brendan Pierson (Reuters) - The suspected Russian hack of U.S. government agencies has led to heated rhetoric from lawmakers, with U.S. Senator Dick Durbin calling it "virtually a dec...
Dec 19, 2020
Biden to introduce team tasked with ambitious climate agenda on Saturday
By Jarrett Renshaw (Reuters) - President-elect Joe Biden is scheduled to publicly introduce his climate and energy team on Saturday, a history-making group that will be tasked with advancing his ambit...
Dec 19, 2020
China says tailed U.S. warship in Taiwan Strait
SHANGHAI/TAIPEI (Reuters) - China's military tailed a U.S. warship as it passed through the sensitive Taiwan Strait on Saturday, the Chinese military said, denouncing such missions as sending "flirtat...
Dec 19, 2020
French modelling agent who knew Jeffrey Epstein placed under investigation
PARIS (Reuters) - Jean-Luc Brunel, a longtime French modelling agent who knew the late financier Jeffrey Epstein, was placed under investigation and remanded in custody, the office of the Paris prosec...
Dec 19, 2020
U.S. to halt work at two consulates in Russia after COVID-19 drawdown
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The United States is halting work at two consulates in Russia, the State Department said, citing safety and security issues at the facilities where operations had been curtailed ove...
Dec 19, 2020
Congress works through the weekend to finalize COVID aid package
By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic and Republican lawmakers in Washington were working through the weekend to complete a $900 billion coronavirus aid bill for American individuals and ...
Dec 18, 2020
