Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Europeans refocus on new curbs as COVID surges across continent
By Crispian Balmer ROME (Reuters) - European governments moved on Tuesday to set new curbs in motion to try to rein in a fast-growing surge of coronavirus infections and provide economic balm to help ...
Oct 27, 2020
Spared early on, ‘Trump country’ now leads in coronavirus cases, deaths
By Howard Schneider (Reuters) - In the early days of what became a historic public health crisis, the novel coronavirus was, in the lexicon of U.S. politics, a "blue state" problem - centered in East ...
Oct 27, 2020
Explainer: Can Trump call in troops to quell Election Day unrest?
By Jan Wolfe (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump has declined to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he decides the Nov. 3 presidential election results are fraudulent and has proposed mobil...
Oct 27, 2020
Fame or blame? What lies ahead for ‘the Squad’, as they eye second terms in U.S. Congress
By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - They came to Washington to shake things up and in their first two years in the U.S. House of Representatives the four lawmakers popularly known as 'the Squad' a...
Oct 27, 2020
Pandemic transforms some Americans into voting rights activists in raft of lawsuits
By Tom Hals (Reuters) - Fear of the novel coronavirus has cast some Americans into an unfamiliar role: litigants in an unprecedented wave of court battles over voting procedures. For Regina Root, 53, ...
Oct 27, 2020
‘Baptism by fire’ for newly appointed Supreme Court Justice Barrett
By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Newly confirmed conservative U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett faces a barrage of politically fraught cases in her first days on the job, as the co...
Oct 27, 2020
American citizen kidnapped in southern Niger, sources say
NIAMEY (Reuters) - An American citizen was kidnapped near the town of Birnin Konni in southern Niger in the early hours of Tuesday morning, three security sources and a local official told Reuters. Th...
Oct 27, 2020
Armenia says Karabakh forces quit town as U.S.-backed ceasefire appears to fail
By Nvard Hovhannisyan and Nailia Bagirova YEREVAN/BAKU (Reuters) - Armenia acknowledged overnight that Nagorno-Karabakh forces had withdrawn from a strategic town between the enclave and the Iranian b...
Oct 27, 2020
Protests flare in Philadelphia after police fatally shoot Black man
By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) - Street protests broke out on Monday night in the western part of the U.S. city of Philadelphia, injuring four police, after police had shot and killed a Black man they sa...
Oct 27, 2020
Analysis: Wolves and weed – U.S. voters choose future of public lands
By Carey L. Biron WASHINGTON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Ricardo Cortes' oldest son started kindergarten at their neighbourhood school in Oakland, California, he was disheartened by the barren...
Oct 27, 2020
