Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Majority will accept result of U.S. election, even if they dislike the winner: Reuters/Ipsos poll
By Chris Kahn (Reuters) - As the 2020 presidential election enters its final week, a majority of Americans appear ready to accept the result of an exhausting campaign even if their preferred candidate...
Oct 25, 2020
U.S. disease expert Fauci says vaccine verdict due by early December
LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci said on Sunday it would be clear whether a COVID-19 vaccine was safe and effective by early December, but that more widespread vaccinati...
Oct 25, 2020
Malaysia rulers to meet to consider PM Muhyiddin’s emergency proposal
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia's rulers are set to meet on Sunday to discuss what sources have said is a proposal by Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin to impose a state of emergency amid a political ...
Oct 25, 2020
Trump goes on offensive against Biden with trip to New Hampshire
By Steve Holland (Reuters) - President Donald Trump will go on the offensive against Democratic rival Joe Biden on Sunday with a campaign trip to New Hampshire, a state he narrowly lost in 2016 but is...
Oct 24, 2020
Pence aide tests positive for coronavirus, spokesman says
(Reuters) - Marc Short, the chief of staff for Vice President Mike Pence, has tested positive for the new coronavirus, a spokesman for the vice president said on Saturday. "Vice President Pence and Mr...
Oct 24, 2020
Samsung chairman Lee Kun-hee, head of South Korea’s biggest conglomerate, dies at 78
By Hyunjoo Jin and Cynthia Kim SEOUL (Reuters) - Lee Kun-hee, the charismatic leader of Samsung Group, South Korea's biggest conglomerate, died on Sunday, the company said, six years he was hospitalis...
Oct 24, 2020
‘Murder hornet’ nest vacuumed out of tree in Washington
(Reuters) - A team of entomologists in full-body protective gear vacuumed Asian giant hornets out of a tree in Washington state on Saturday, eradicating the first nest of the so-called murder hornets ...
Oct 24, 2020
Republican Murkowski, who opposed pre-election Supreme Court confirmation, will vote for Barrett
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - One of two Republican U.S. senators who had opposed the pre-election confirmation of President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett, said on Saturday she woul...
Oct 24, 2020
Police officer fired after shooting of Black couple in Illinois
By Brendan O'Brien (Reuters) - A police officer in Waukegan, Illinois, was fired after he shot and killed an unarmed Black teenager and wounded the young man's 20-year-old Black girlfriend during a tr...
Oct 24, 2020
Texas court temporarily reinstates limited ballot drop-off sites
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Texas Supreme Court on Saturday temporarily reinstated the governor's ban on multiple drop-off sites for mail ballots, in a short-term victory for President Donald Trump. Th...
Oct 24, 2020
