Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
U.S. passenger airport traffic falls
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Security officials screened 501,513 passengers at U.S. airports on Tuesday, the lowest number since July 4 amid a rising number of COVID-19 cases. The Transportation Security Ad...
Dec 09, 2020
Azar vows to make sure “no balls are dropped” on COVID-19 during transition
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar on Wednesday vowed to make sure the transition team of President-elect Joe Biden gets all the information it needs to work on ...
Dec 09, 2020
S&P 500 futures climb to record high on vaccine, stimulus bets
By Shriya Ramakrishnan (Reuters) - Dow futures rose and S&P 500 futures hit a record high on Wednesday as hopes for a vaccine-linked economic recovery and more domestic fiscal stimulus sparked demand ...
Dec 09, 2020
Crimped U.S. dry ice supply complicates rural U.S. vaccine release
By Stephanie Kelly, Lisa Baertlein and Carl O'Donnell NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - As health officials from rural areas prepare to vaccinate people scattered over thousands of miles in what could ...
Dec 09, 2020
Criminals getting smarter in use of digital currencies to launder money
By Anna Irrera LONDON (Reuters) - Criminals are becoming more sophisticated in their use of cryptocurrencies to launder money, with hundreds of millions of dollars of dirty funds last year flowing thr...
Dec 09, 2020
Special Report-How oil majors shift billions in profits to island tax havens
By Tom Bergin and Ron Bousso (Reuters) - Bermuda and the Bahamas aren't exactly big players in the oil-and-gas world. They don't produce any of the fuels at all. Yet the islands are deep wells of prof...
Dec 09, 2020
Analysis-Investors push back on blank-check company insiders’ payout bonanza
By Joshua Franklin and Jessica DiNapoli (Reuters) - Investors are pressuring some blank-check acquisition companies to scale back wildly lucrative payouts to their bosses that are weighing on sharehol...
Dec 09, 2020
Two reports of allergic reactions on first day of vaccine rollout – UK medical regulator
LONDON (Reuters) - Two allergic reactions were reported on the first day of the rollout of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, the head of Britain's medicine regulator said on Wednesday. "Last evening, we we...
Dec 09, 2020
U.S. House to take up one-week stopgap bill as COVID-19 talks drag on
By Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives votes on Wednesday on a one-week stopgap funding bill to provide more time for lawmakers to reach a deal on both COVID-19 rel...
Dec 09, 2020
‘The canary in the coal mine?’ What teacher layoffs in one city could mean for U.S. schools
By Andy Sullivan (Reuters) - Shortly before school began in September, administrators in Schenectady, New York, laid off more than 400 teachers, aides and other employees -- roughly one out of every f...
Dec 09, 2020
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