Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Trump administration lifts federal protections for gray wolf
By Nichola Groom (Reuters) - The Trump administration on Thursday said it would lift Endangered Species Act protections for the gray wolf, arguing the species had been brought back successfully from t...
Oct 29, 2020
Alphabet sales growth back as Google key for advertisers
By Paresh Dave and Munsif Vengattil (Reuters) - Google parent Alphabet Inc returned to sales growth in the third quarter as businesses initially hobbled by the coronavirus pandemic resumed advertising...
Oct 29, 2020
U.S. Supreme Court again rejects North Carolina Republicans in absentee ballot dispute
By Andrew Chung (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday rejected another bid by North Carolina Republicans to block the extension of a deadline for receiving mail-in ballots for next Tuesday's ...
Oct 29, 2020
Record-breaking early voting in U.S. election tops 80 million
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than 80 million Americans have cast ballots in the U.S. presidential election, according to a tally on Thursday from the U.S. Elections Project at the University of Florida...
Oct 29, 2020
Fauci says first U.S. COVID-19 vaccines could ship late December or early January
By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) - If all goes well, the first doses of a safe and effective coronavirus vaccine will likely become available to some high-risk Americans in late December or earl...
Oct 29, 2020
Fewer arrests in Philadelphia after citywide curfew
By Hannah McKay PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Philadelphia police made significantly fewer arrests on Wednesday night compared to the prior two evenings, a sign that a citywide curfew helped curb the viole...
Oct 29, 2020
U.S. CDC reports 227,045 deaths from coronavirus
(Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Thursday reported 8,834,393 cases of new coronavirus, an increase of 81,599 cases from its previous count, and said that the nu...
Oct 29, 2020
Biden pledges task force to reunite children separated at U.S-Mexico border
(Reuters) - Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden vowed to create a task force to reunite more than 500 children who were separated from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border by the Trump admin...
Oct 29, 2020
Apollo CEO Black calls giving Epstein a second chance ‘a terrible mistake’
By Chibuike Oguh NEW YORK (Reuters) - Apollo Global Management Inc CEO Leon Black said on Thursday that giving Jeffrey Epstein a second chance following the late financier's imprisonment in 2008 for s...
Oct 29, 2020
Exclusive: Russia’s COVID-19 vaccine trial slows as focus shifts to second dose
By Polina Ivanova and Gleb Stolyarov MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has temporarily paused the vaccination of new volunteers in its COVID-19 vaccine trial, staff at eight of 25 trial clinics said, with som...
Oct 29, 2020
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