Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Starbucks suspends U.S. Happy Hours due to crowd concerns as COVID-19 surges
By Hilary Russ NEW YORK (Reuters) - Starbucks Corp customers in the United States will have to pay the full $5.65 for a second grande Eggnog Latte this holiday season, as the company suspends two-for-...
Dec 15, 2020
Fleeing New Yorkers resulted in an estimated $34 billion in lost income -study
By Jonnelle Marte (Reuters) - Millions of people have moved out of New York City during the pandemic, but at the same time, millions of others with lower incomes have taken their place, according to a...
Dec 15, 2020
U.S. FDA staff raises no new concerns with Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine
(Reuters) - U.S. Food and Drug Administration staff members did not raise new concerns over data on Moderna Inc's coronavirus vaccine in documents made public on Tuesday, preparing the way for U.S. au...
Dec 15, 2020
In Chicago, a community mourns a grandmother lost to COVID-19
By Shannon Stapleton CHICAGO (Reuters) - On Dec. 1, 2020, at 4:40 pm, Roseland Community Hospital nurse Alma Abad entered the isolation room of COVID-19 patient Florence Bolton with an iPad donated to...
Dec 15, 2020
Vaccinations under way, U.S. turns to educating skeptics, economic aid
(Reuters) - The United States extended its rollout of the first authorized COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday, inoculating healthcare workers with an eye toward convincing skeptical Americans to get their sh...
Dec 15, 2020
Futures gain on stimulus hopes; Fed meet in focus
By Ambar Warrick (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures rose on Tuesday as progress toward a massive government spending bill and COVID-19 relief measures kept spirits high, while investors awaited new ...
Dec 15, 2020
After the White House, Trump faces uncertain future and legal threats
By John Whitesides and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump is leaving the White House but he is not going to fade away quietly. After failing in his legal efforts to overturn h...
Dec 15, 2020
Biden’s pledges could spur more migration. But in a pandemic, the border is unprepared
By Mimi Dwyer, Ted Hesson and Laura Gottesdiener LOS ANGELES/MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) - After spending eight months of 2019 in a makeshift tent camp in the dangerous Mexican border city of Matamoro...
Dec 15, 2020
Fresh off Electoral College win, Biden to stump in Georgia for Democratic Senate candidates
By Joseph Ax (Reuters) - A day after the Electoral College confirmed his presidential victory, Joe Biden will travel to Georgia on Tuesday to campaign for two Democratic U.S. Senate candidates whose J...
Dec 15, 2020
New coronavirus strain spreading in UK has key mutations, scientists say
By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - British scientists are trying to establish whether the rapid spread in southern England of a new variant of the virus that causes COVID-19 is linked to key mutations...
Dec 15, 2020
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