Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Biden outlines COVID-19 vaccine goal: 100 million shots in 100 days
WILMINGTON, Del. (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday said he would aim to get 100 million COVID-19 vaccine doses injected into Americans in his first 100 days in office, a key plank ...
Dec 08, 2020
U.S. CDC reports 282,785 deaths from coronavirus
(Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Tuesday reported 14,823,129 cases of the new coronavirus, an increase of 186,215 cases from its previous count, and said that t...
Dec 08, 2020
As U.S. companies push to get workers vaccinated, states disagree on who’s essential
By Tina Bellon and Richa Naidu NEW YORK/CHICAGO (Reuters) - Companies and industry groups lobbying to get their U.S. workers to the front of the line for COVID vaccination are running into a patchwork...
Dec 08, 2020
Explainer: How France will distribute COVID-19 vaccines
PARIS (Reuters) - France is preparing the rollout of a first round of COVID-19 vaccines that it hopes will start reaching the most at risk citizens early next year pending regulatory approvals of the ...
Dec 08, 2020
U.S. Speaker Pelosi backs putting $1,200 checks for people in next COVID-19 bill
By Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Tuesday she supported including another round of $1,200 direct payments for Americans in a fresh packag...
Dec 08, 2020
Army Fort Hood panel finds command structure has ‘permissive’ culture of sexual assaults
(Reuters) - An investigative panel looking into a pattern of violent crimes at the Fort Hood Army base in Texas says on Tuesday they found a command structure that was "permissive" of sexual assaults....
Dec 08, 2020
Trump lawyer Giuliani, suffering from COVID-19, to attend virtual hearing -source
By Jarrett Renshaw (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who was recently hospitalized with COVID-19, will attend a virtual hearing this week with Georgia lawmakers over Trump's f...
Dec 08, 2020
CDC advisers to review data on Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine
(Reuters) - A panel of independent advisers to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will meet on Sunday to review data on Pfizer Inc and partner BioNTech SE's COVID-19 vaccine can...
Dec 08, 2020
Trump campaign attorney Ellis has contracted coronavirus – source
(Reuters) - Jenna Ellis, an attorney helping lead President Donald Trump's legal challenges to the results of the U.S. presidential election, has contracted the coronavirus, a source familiar with the...
Dec 08, 2020
Arctic warming cascades through ocean and over land, U.S. report says
By Yereth Rosen ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - The Arctic region has had its second-warmest year since 1900, continuing a pattern of extreme heat, ice melt and environmental transformation at the top o...
Dec 08, 2020
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