Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Stocks cheered by vaccine roll out, Brexit extension
By Wayne Cole SYDNEY (Reuters) - Stocks started a busy week with guarded gains as investors gauged the chance of added U.S. fiscal and monetary stimulus, while the British pound rose in relief as a la...
Dec 13, 2020
British author John le Carré dies aged 89
(Reuters) - British author John le Carr, writer of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and The Night Manager, has died aged 89, his literary agent said late on Sunday. "It is with great sadness that I must shar...
Dec 13, 2020
Trump, Pence, other top officials to be offered COVID-19 vaccine: source
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and other top U.S. officials will be offered the newly approved COVID-19 vaccine beginning Monday, according to a source f...
Dec 13, 2020
Hoyer suggests U.S. Democrats might do without state, local aid for COVID-19 relief
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives' No. 2 Democrat, Steny Hoyer, suggested on Sunday his party might be willing to accept a coronavirus relief deal without the state and local ai...
Dec 13, 2020
Gunman opens fire during outdoor choir performance at Manhattan cathedral
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A gunman opened fire at an outdoor choir performance on the steps of the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine in New York City's Upper West Side on Sunday, and was himself shot...
Dec 13, 2020
U.S. CDC director ‘proud’ to sign advisory panel recommendation of COVID vaccine
(Reuters) - U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Robert Redfield said on Sunday that he had signed a CDC advisory panel's recommendation of Pfizer Inc's COVID-19 vaccine. The Advis...
Dec 13, 2020
Exclusive: U.S. Treasury breached by hackers backed by foreign government – sources
By Christopher Bing WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A sophisticated hacking group backed by a foreign government stole information from the U.S. Treasury Department and a U.S. agency responsible for deciding p...
Dec 13, 2020
U.S. CDC reports 296,818 deaths from coronavirus
(Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Sunday reported 15,932,116 cases of the new coronavirus, an increase of 213,305 from its previous count, and said that the numb...
Dec 13, 2020
Trump revives threat to veto defense bill, teeing up battle with lawmakers
By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday repeated his threat to veto a massive defense spending bill, setting the stage for a major battle with U.S. lawmakers at a...
Dec 13, 2020
Chinese dams under U.S. scrutiny in Mekong rivalry
By Kay Johnson and Matthew Tostevin BANGKOK (Reuters) - A U.S.-funded project using satellites to track and publish water levels at Chinese dams on the Mekong river was launched on Monday, adding to t...
Dec 13, 2020
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