Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
With vaccines within reach, U.S. braces for post-Thanksgiving coronavirus surge
By Doina Chiacu and Peter Szekely WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After a Thanksgiving weekend when the number of people traveling through U.S. airports reached its highest since mid-March, a top government of...
Nov 30, 2020
U.S. Congress races to avoid December government shutdown amid pandemic
By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress on Monday began a two-week sprint to rescue the federal government from a possible shutdown amid the coronavirus pandemic, the first major tes...
Nov 30, 2020
Georgia official announces probe into third-party groups trying to register people illegally
(Reuters) - Election authorities in Georgia have opened investigations into third-party groups trying to sign up new voters in advance of a January special election that could determine control of the...
Nov 30, 2020
French government drops draft law curbing filming of police officers
PARIS (Reuters) - The French government has dropped a controversial bill that would have curbed the right to film police officers in action, the speaker of French President Emmanuel Macron's ruling pa...
Nov 30, 2020
Biden taps Yellen for Treasury, announces other members of economic team
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Joe Biden will nominate former Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen to be his treasury secretary and announced other members of his economic team on Monday, t...
Nov 30, 2020
Two coronavirus vaccines available in U.S. in coming weeks: health secretary
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The first two vaccines against the novel coronavirus could be administered to Americans before Christmas, Health Secretary Alex Azar said on Monday after Moderna Inc became the ...
Nov 30, 2020
U.S. agency screened 1.18 million airline passengers on Sunday
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Transportation Security Administration said it screened 1.18 million airline passengers on Sunday, the highest number since mid-March but still about 60% lower than the comp...
Nov 30, 2020
Futures dip as S&P 500 heads towards best November ever
By Shriya Ramakrishnan (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures dipped on Monday as investors paused ahead of crucial economic indicators later this week to take stock of what was set to be a record-setti...
Nov 30, 2020
In Sudan camp, a Tigray farmer once displaced by famine now shelters from war
By Seham Eloraby and Baz Ratner UM RAKUBA CAMP, Sudan (Reuters) - Ethiopian farmer Berhan Halie came to Sudan 35 years ago to escape hunger. Now 65 and walking with a stick, he is back again, this tim...
Nov 30, 2020
Q&A: Where are we in the COVID-19 vaccine race?
(Reuters) - Large global trials of several COVID-19 vaccine candidates involving tens of thousands of participants are well underway with some having gathered sufficient data to seek emergency use aut...
Nov 30, 2020
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