Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
South Korea’s BTS snags first ever Grammy nomination for a K-Pop band
By Sangmi Cha SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean boy band BTS on Tuesday snagged the first ever Grammy nomination for a K-pop band, taking the worldwide sensation a step closer to winning the music award....
Nov 24, 2020
Space oddity? Monolith in Utah desert mystifies helicopter crew
By Peter Szekely (Reuters) - They were on a mission to count sheep when they found something they had not counted on. As a Utah helicopter crew buzzed over the southeastern part of the state looking f...
Nov 24, 2020
Stocks rise as vaccines, Biden presidency lift global confidence
By Katanga Johnson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Asian stocks made early gains on Wednesday, following a world rally overnight that saw the Dow Jones benchmark crack 30,000 for the first time as investors ch...
Nov 24, 2020
Wall Street’s rise from pandemic lows has further to go, say strategists: Reuters/Ipsos poll
By Caroline Valetkevitch NEW YORK (Reuters) - The S&P 500 is poised to climb 9% between now and the end of 2021 as the anticipated widespread release of a COVID-19 vaccine drives an economic and corpo...
Nov 24, 2020
Retailers already fear U.S. holiday ‘shipageddon’; now here come vaccines
By Lisa Baertlein LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Deliveries of holiday gifts purchased online at major retailers could get delayed by something far more critical - COVID-19 vaccines. Pharmaceutical companies...
Nov 24, 2020
Plasma from recovered patients shows little benefit in those hospitalized with COVID-19: study
By Vishwadha Chander (Reuters) - Using blood plasma from COVID-19 survivors to treat patients with severe pneumonia caused by the novel coronavirus showed little benefit, according to data released on...
Nov 24, 2020
Washington, D.C., subway will idle some railcars after separation incident
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Washington, D.C.-area subway system said it will indefinitely idle its fleet of 6000-series railcars following a train-separation incident on Tuesday, the second in recent w...
Nov 24, 2020
A life in colors: NYC celebrates Ruth Bader Ginsburg with East Village mural
By Aleksandra Michalska NEW YORK (Reuters) - A huge colorful portrait of the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg now greets passersby over an East Village crosswalk in New York City. The th...
Nov 24, 2020
Pennsylvania officials ask court to reject Trump campaign’s election appeal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pennsylvania officials asked the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals to reject an appeal made by U.S. President Donald Trump's campaign, according to a court filing on Tuesday. ...
Nov 24, 2020
U.S. CDC reports 257,016 deaths from coronavirus
(Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Tuesday reported 12,333,452 cases of the new coronavirus, an increase of 157,531 from its previous count, and said the number o...
Nov 24, 2020
