Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Special Report-As more women fill America’s jails, medical tragedies mount
By Peter Eisler, Linda So, Jason Szep and Grant Smith (Reuters) - By the time anyone at the Milwaukee County Jail noticed Shade Swayzer had given birth alone in a filthy cell, her baby was dead. Swayz...
Dec 16, 2020
Vaccine and marketing groups take up challenge of promoting shots to pandemic’s hardest-hit
By Sheila Dang (Reuters) - In November, the National Black Church Initiative organized a 15-church community campaign in Baltimore to encourage Black Americans to get their flu shots. Eleven people in...
Dec 16, 2020
Biden to introduce Buttigieg as latest nominee to diverse U.S. Cabinet
By Joseph Ax (Reuters) - President-elect Joe Biden on Wednesday plans to formally introduce former rival Pete Buttigieg as his pick for U.S. secretary of transportation, adding to what is shaping up t...
Dec 16, 2020
Biden will keep using U.S. sanctions weapon but with sharper aim – sources
By Matt Spetalnick, Daphne Psaledakis, Humeyra Pamuk and Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Joe Biden will not shy away from using President Donald Trump's weapon of choice - sanctions - as he se...
Dec 16, 2020
Progress on Brexit issues, next days critical, EU says
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union's chief executive said on Wednesday that she could not say if there would be a trade accord with Britain but there had been progress and that the next few days ...
Dec 16, 2020
Minnesota frees man sentenced to life for 2002 murder
(Reuters) - The U.S. state of Minnesota on Tuesday released a Black man who was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2002 after he was convicted of the murder of an 11-year old girl, officials said. The ...
Dec 16, 2020
Asian countries, Switzerland at risk in U.S. Treasury’s currency report
By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury could label several countries currency manipulators before President Donald Trump leaves office, analysts say, as the coronavirus pandemic skew...
Dec 16, 2020
Fed faces tricky act balancing impact of vaccines against economic pain
By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve on Wednesday will offer its first glimpse of how a coronavirus vaccine has changed the U.S. economic outlook, and whether businesses, wor...
Dec 16, 2020
Analysis: As Fed meeting looms, investors brace for higher Treasury yields in 2021
By Kate Duguid and April Joyner NEW YORK (Reuters) - Investors are betting that longer-dated Treasury yields are headed higher in the near term, reflecting expectations that the Federal Reserve is unl...
Dec 16, 2020
Low-income U.S. households are spending savings quicker than high earners: study
By Jonnelle Marte (Reuters) - U.S. households across the board built up savings during the pandemic, but low-income households are burning through their cash more quickly than higher-income families a...
Dec 15, 2020
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