Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
White House plans holiday party as Americans urged to stay home
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House plans to hold an indoor holiday reception next week just days after Thanksgiving despite ongoing COVID-19 outbreaks at the compound, and against the advice of it...
Nov 23, 2020
U.S. screens highest number of airline passengers since March
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Transportation Security Administration said it screened 1.047 million passengers on Sunday, the highest number since mid-March. The number of U.S. air travelers is stil...
Nov 23, 2020
Futures rise as vaccine progress fuels recovery hopes
(Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures rose on Monday as hopes that the first COVID-19 vaccine could be available within weeks renewed bets of a swift economic recovery next year. The U.S. Food and Drug...
Nov 23, 2020
U.S. prepares for first COVID-19 shots as another vaccine candidate emerges
By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) - U.S. officials prepared to begin inoculating Americans against the novel coronavirus by mid-December as another global drug company on Monday announced promising trial res...
Nov 23, 2020
Special Report: Ortega media enrich his family, entrench his hold on Nicaragua
By Drazen Jorgic and Ismael Lopez MANAGUA (Reuters) - In early 2010, Nicaragua's Canal 8, an independent television network, had a new owner. Details of the deal - the identity of the buyer, the purch...
Nov 23, 2020
‘Very stressful’: COVID-19 surge slices U.S. demand for big Thanksgiving turkeys
By Tom Polansek and Christopher Walljasper CHICAGO (Reuters) - All summer, Greg Gunthorp slaughtered and froze 15- to 24-pound turkeys on his northeastern Indiana farm for Thanksgiving sales to retail...
Nov 23, 2020
Canada police conduct under microscope in witness testimony for Huawei CFO’s U.S. extradition case
By Sarah Berman VANCOUVER (Reuters) - Witness testimony in Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou's extradition case this week will be largely focused on the behind-the-scenes conduct of Canadian...
Nov 23, 2020
Analysis: With end of crisis programs, Fed faces tricky post-pandemic transition
By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The possible arrival of a coronavirus vaccine in the coming weeks means the Federal Reserve may soon have to lay out its plans for helping the economy naviga...
Nov 23, 2020
Factbox: Trump suffers major defeat in legal battle to overturn the election, but presses on
By Makini Brice and Jan Wolfe (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's campaign and his allies have suffered a string of judicial defeats in their bid to prevent states from certifying President-Elec...
Nov 23, 2020
A 2020 mantra for small business: ‘Listen hard, change fast’
By Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan NEW YORK (Reuters) - Ben Chestnut, co-founder and chief executive officer of Mailchimp, a marketing platform for small businesses, has a mantra: "Listen hard. Change fast." And i...
Nov 23, 2020
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