Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
FDA chief Hahn hopes to make vaccine decision in December
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Stephen Hahn said on Friday the agency will move quickly to review a Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine and hopes it will m...
Dec 04, 2020
Analysis: First U.S. delivery of COVID-19 vaccine will leave out many high-risk workers
By Rebecca Spalding and Carl O'Donnell NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. government's first shipment of millions of coronavirus vaccine doses to be divided among states and federal agencies, including the...
Dec 04, 2020
Futures near record highs as stimulus hopes build
By Shriya Ramakrishnan (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures held near all-time highs on Friday as growing prospects for further economic stimulus and continued optimism over a COVID-19 vaccine-driven ...
Dec 04, 2020
‘We lost everything:’ Central Americans flee north after back-to-back hurricanes
By Laura Gottesdiener and Lizbeth Diaz MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) - It took Luis Salgado years of manual labor to save enough money to open a small fresh produce store, so when torrential floods swep...
Dec 04, 2020
U.S. bank lobby spends $1 million on ad blitz for Republican Perdue in Georgia U.S. Senate runoff
By Pete Schroeder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The largest U.S. bank lobby group is spending $1 million on television ads to boost Republican Senator David Perdue, in a bid to ensure the Senate remains in R...
Dec 04, 2020
Trump loyalist Loeffler’s attacks on pastor Warnock risk suburban votes in Georgia’s U.S. Senate race
By Rich McKay and David Morgan MARIETTA, Ga. (Reuters) - Beau Davis, a 33-year-old security specialist from the Atlanta suburbs, is the kind of voter Republican Senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdu...
Dec 04, 2020
U.S. House Democrats adopt mobile internet voting for leadership contests
By Christopher Bing (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers used a mobile phone app over the last two weeks to remotely cast votes for the first time, according to technologists and some involved in the process, e...
Dec 04, 2020
Russian state employees describe pressure to join vaccine trials
By Polina Ivanova, Rinat Sagdiev, Gleb Stolyarov and Kate Kelland MOSCOW (Reuters) - In late September, Moscow municipal official Sergei Martyanov sent a series of text messages to his subordinates: "...
Dec 04, 2020
U.S. Congress defense bill defies Trump on Germany withdrawal, base names
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers unveiled the final version of a massive annual defense policy bill on Thursday that defies President Donald Trump's plans to withdraw troops ...
Dec 04, 2020
Brexit trade talks in ‘difficult phase’, British minister says
LONDON (Reuters) -Brexit trade talks are in the difficult phase and a deal can only be struck if the European Union accepts that Britain is a sovereign nation, Business Secretary Alok Sharma said. Wit...
Dec 04, 2020
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