Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Republican U.S. Senator Capito says presidential election result points to Biden victory
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito on Monday said while some irregularities in the Nov. 3 presidential election have been found, there is no indication they were wides...
Nov 23, 2020
Biden to pick ex-Fed chair Yellen for Treasury secretary: WSJ
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Joe Biden plans to nominate former Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen to become the next Treasury secretary, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday...
Nov 23, 2020
Pope, for first time, says China’s Uighurs are ‘persecuted’
By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - In a new book, Pope Francis for the first time calls China's Muslim Uighurs a "persecuted" people, something human rights activists have been urging him to ...
Nov 23, 2020
Colorado regulators approve tougher rules for new oil and gas wells
By Liz Hampton DENVER (Reuters) - Colorado's oil and gas regulator on Monday approved tougher permitting rules for new oil and gas wells, including requiring a 2,000-foot (610 meter) separation betwee...
Nov 23, 2020
U.S. to begin distributing Regeneron’s COVID-19 antibody therapy starting Tuesday
(Reuters) - U.S. government will begin distributing Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc's newly authorized COVID-19 antibody combination therapy starting Tuesday, beginning with over 30,000 courses, a healt...
Nov 23, 2020
AstraZeneca vaccine can be up to 90% effective; COVID-19 reinfection unlikely for at least six months
By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) - The following is a roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness caused by ...
Nov 23, 2020
Drip by drip, U.S. Republicans slowly break from Trump election claims
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More prominent Republicans on Monday joined the call for President Donald Trump to end efforts to overturn his election defeat and allow President-elect Joe...
Nov 23, 2020
Decades of work, and half a dose of fortune, drove Oxford vaccine success
By Alistair Smout, Kate Kelland and Ludwig Burger LONDON/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - It took Oxford University's brightest minds decades of work to give them the expertise to develop a COVID-19 vaccine. In ...
Nov 23, 2020
Biden to name Kerry as U.S. climate czar, emphasizing diplomacy’s role in the fight
By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Joe Biden's transition team said on Monday former Secretary of State John Kerry will be named climate czar, a sign that Biden views diplo...
Nov 23, 2020
U.S. CDC reports 255,958 deaths from coronavirus
(Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Monday reported 12,175,921 cases of the new coronavirus, an increase of 147,840 from its previous count, and said that the numb...
Nov 23, 2020
