Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Major police operation underway near Montreal downtown
By Allison Lampert MONTREAL (Reuters) - Police cordoned off an area near downtown Montreal on Friday amid media reports of a hostage situation and asked people to stay away. "There is an ongoing polic...
Nov 13, 2020
Trump administration pushes to sell Alaska oil leases pre-Biden inauguration
By Yereth Rosen (Reuters) - The Trump Administration will take key steps to finalize a sale of oil drilling leases in the sensitive Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in Alaska just before Democra...
Nov 13, 2020
First openly gay Afro-Latino U.S. congressman: ‘Never in my wildest dreams’
By Angela Moore NEW YORK (Reuters) - Growing up in the Bronx poor, Afro-Latino and gay, Ritchie Torres said he never imagined that he would one day be elected to the United States House of Representat...
Nov 13, 2020
Trump mulls a future outside the White House as 2020 options fade
By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With his long-shot efforts to hang on for a second term dwindling, U.S. President Donald Trump is discussing with advisers several media ventures and appearance...
Nov 13, 2020
U.S. states race to buy ultra cold vaccine freezers, fueling supply worries
By Lisa Baertlein and Carl O'Donnell LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. states, cities, and hospitals are scrambling to buy ultra-cold freezers that can safely store Pfizer Inc's COVID-19 vaccine, ...
Nov 13, 2020
French prosecutors: Nice church attack and teacher’s beheading are linked
PARIS (Reuters) - The man suspected of knifing to death three people in a church in the French city of Nice had on his telephone pictures of the man who beheaded a middle school teacher near Paris 13 ...
Nov 13, 2020
U.S. CDC reports 242,216 deaths from coronavirus
(Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Friday reported 10,508,864 cases of the novel coronavirus, an increase of 194,610 cases from its previous count, and said that ...
Nov 13, 2020
U.S. President Trump to deliver update on Operation Warp Speed at 4 p.m. (2100 GMT) Friday
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday will address the nation at 4 p.m. eastern time (2100 GMT) with an update on the so-called Operation Warp Speed program, according to a Whit...
Nov 13, 2020
Trump says he’ll ‘do the right thing’ after all votes are counted, confidant says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said he was a "realist" who would follow the U.S. Constitution after all legitimate votes were counted, but was waiting to see how U.S. sta...
Nov 13, 2020
Michigan state court rejects request to block Detroit election certification results
(Reuters) - A Michigan state court rejected on Friday a request by supporters of President Donald Trump to block the certification of votes in Detroit, which went heavily in favor of Joe Biden, Trump'...
Nov 13, 2020
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