Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Coronavirus cases proliferate in more than a dozen U.S. states
By Maria Caspani and Anurag Maan (Reuters) - More than a dozen U.S. states have doubled their COVID-19 case loads in the last 14 days compared with the previous two-week period, as the pandemic spread...
Nov 12, 2020
Measles surging as COVID-19 curbs disrupt vaccinations
By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - Measles surged to infect almost 870,000 people across the world in 2019, the worst figures in almost a quarter of a century as vaccination levels fell below critical...
Nov 12, 2020
Trump campaign adviser Lewandowski tests positive for coronavirus
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Corey Lewandowski, one of President Donald Trump's most trusted advisers, tested positive for the coronavirus, a source familiar with the matter said on Thursday. Lewandowski, w...
Nov 12, 2020
Congressional COVID-19 impasse continues, Pelosi warns ‘house is burning down’
By Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top Democrats in the U.S. Congress on Thursday urged renewed negotiations over a multitrillion-dollar coronavirus aid proposal, but the top Republican immediat...
Nov 12, 2020
Pennsylvania court blocks counting of some mail-in ballots
By Tom Hals (Reuters) - Pennsylvania's Commonwealth Court on Thursday barred county election officials from counting mail-in and absentee ballots in which voters provided missing information after Nov...
Nov 12, 2020
The top contenders to run Biden’s financial agencies
By Pete Schroeder, Michelle Price and Katanga Johnson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic U.S. President-elect Joe Biden's team has tapped a mix of progressives and centrist policy experts, including fo...
Nov 12, 2020
Europe ‘must grit our teeth’ on COVID-19 as vaccine euphoria fades
By Sudip Kar-Gupta and Thomas Seythal PARIS/BERLIN (Reuters) - European officials warned against COVID-19 complacency on Thursday and said measures to control a surge in infections as winter approache...
Nov 12, 2020
Explainer – Shot in the dark: Early COVID-19 vaccine efficacy explained
By John Miller ZURICH (Reuters) - This week has seen a flurry of good news from COVID-19 vaccine developers, with Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE trumpeting early data indicating their mRNA candidate is m...
Nov 12, 2020
U.S. airlines caution on winter challenges as COVID-19 cases rise
(Reuters) - Delta Air Lines and Southwest Airlines on Thursday cautioned that the recent surge in COVID-19 cases may have a negative impact on travel over the winter holidays, a period the sector had ...
Nov 12, 2020
Contender to lead Biden EPA says agency should focus on environmental justice
By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency should strengthen its use of the federal Civil Rights Act to better to protect poor and minority communities from p...
Nov 12, 2020
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