Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Pence, Biden to get COVID vaccine in bid to build public support
By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vice President Mike Pence will publicly receive the coronavirus vaccine on Friday as the Trump administration scrambles to build public support for an inoculati...
Dec 17, 2020
U.S. Congress wrangles over details of coronavirus economic aid as deadline approaches
By Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After months of feuding and with a weekend deadline fast approaching, U.S. congressional negotiators were wrangling over details of a $900 billion COVID-19 aid...
Dec 17, 2020
COVID vaccine is bonanza for digital supply chain tracking industry
By Rajesh Kumar Singh CHICAGO (Reuters) - More than half of vaccines go to waste globally every year because of temperature control, logistics and shipment-related issues. Logistical hurdles are a sig...
Dec 17, 2020
Women’s mass grave sheds light on female victims of Spanish Civil War
By Juan Medina FARASDUES, Spain (Reuters) - Archaeologists in northeastern Spain have uncovered the mass grave of 10 women killed by a fascist firing squad in the early days of the Spanish Civil War, ...
Dec 17, 2020
France’s Macron tests positive for COVID-19, self isolates
PARIS (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron has tested positive for COVID-19, the French Presidency said on Thursday, although it was not clear at this stage where he had contracted the virus. ...
Dec 17, 2020
Analysis-Global chip shortage threatens production of laptops, smartphones and more
By Hyunjoo Jin, Douglas Busvine and David Kirton SEOUL/BERLIN/SHENZHEN, China (Reuters) - Makers of cars and electronic devices from TVs to smartphones are sounding alarm bells about a global shortage...
Dec 17, 2020
Chicago mayor ‘appalled’ by 2019 raid on Black woman after video is aired
(Reuters) - The mayor of Chicago said on Wednesday she was appalled by a 2019 police raid on the home of a Black woman, that was caught on video and aired this week, showing police handcuffing the nak...
Dec 17, 2020
Exclusive: U.S. warns Pacific islands about Chinese bid for undersea cable project – sources
By Jonathan Barrett SYDNEY (Reuters) - The United States has warned Pacific island nations about security threats posed by a Chinese company's cut-price bid to build an undersea internet cable, two so...
Dec 17, 2020
Biden’s expected Energy Department pick, Granholm, could lead charge on electric cars
By Timothy Gardner and Ben Klayman WASHINGTON/DETROIT (Reuters) - When Jennifer Granholm was governor of auto-manufacturing Michigan, she led a charge that secured a whopping $1.35 billion in federal ...
Dec 17, 2020
U.S. airlines closing in on new government assistance package
By David Shepardson and Tracy Rucinski WASHINGTON/CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. airlines are on the brink of receiving a four-month extension of a government assistance program that is expected to provide ...
Dec 16, 2020
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