Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Futures tumble as stimulus doubts resurface
By Shriya Ramakrishnan (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures fell 1% on Friday as delays over a new fiscal stimulus package and surging coronavirus infections dented sentiment even as regulators moved ...
Dec 11, 2020
United Airlines flight attendants raise alarm on crew quarantine protocols
By Tracy Rucinski CHICAGO (Reuters) - United Airlines is telling some flight attendants whose colleagues test positive for COVID-19 to keep flying and monitor for symptoms, three employees told Reuter...
Dec 11, 2020
Georgia Republicans fired up for Senate runoff despite ‘rigged’ election fears
By Nathan Layne VALDOSTA, Ga. (Reuters) - Convinced that the presidential election had been stolen from Donald Trump, the young couple from Blairsville, Georgia at first resolved to skip the state's J...
Dec 11, 2020
U.S. trying to secure more doses of Pfizer vaccine – FT
(Reuters) - The U.S. government is trying to secure 100 million additional doses of Pfizer Inc's coronavirus vaccine, the Financial Times reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the order. Ope...
Dec 11, 2020
Any vaccine adverse effects up to national agencies to review – WHO
GENEVA (Reuters) - Any adverse effects from COVID-19 vaccines is for national authorities to review, a WHO spokeswoman said on Friday, in response to questions on Britain's regulatory agency warning p...
Dec 11, 2020
‘The country needs me:’ cleaner in Chicago’s COVID wards proud to fight pandemic
By Shannon Stapleton and Ana Isabel Martinez CHICAGO (Reuters) - When hospital cleaner Evelia De La Cruz was assigned to the COVID-19 ward in March, she was afraid. A 60-year-old immigrant from the so...
Dec 11, 2020
Vaccine carrots or sticks? U.S. businesses grapple with getting employees inoculated
By Erwin Seba and Jessica Resnick-Ault HOUSTON (Reuters) - U.S. workers could soon face choices such as free COVID-19 shots and a cash bonus if all get immunized, or those unwilling to be vaccinated g...
Dec 11, 2020
Indiana hospital rehearses roll-out of much-anticipated COVID-19 vaccine
By Brendan O'Brien INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - An Indiana hospital on Friday will conduct a rehearsal of procedures for administering Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine, anticipating that it will be able to begin...
Dec 11, 2020
Erdogan says U.S. sanctions disrespect ally Turkey -Anadolu
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - President Tayyip Erdogan said that U.S. sanctions over Turkey's purchase of Russian defence systems was disrespectful to an important ally in NATO, state-owned Anadolu news agency...
Dec 11, 2020
Britain wants a Brexit trade deal but will survive no matter what, minister says
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson wants to get a Brexit trade deal and there is a still a chance of getting one but he will not back down on the two main outstanding issues, Cult...
Dec 11, 2020
