Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Obama-nominated judge to hear U.S. antitrust case against Google: filing
By Diane Bartz and David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta, who was nominated to the court by President Barack Obama, has been selected at random to hear the U.S. Justic...
Oct 21, 2020
Analysis: Lack of antidotes adds to ethical dilemmas for UK COVID-19 challenge trials
By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - UK scientists seeking approval to deliberately infect healthy people with COVID-19 in trials must first convince ethics specialists that, among other things, they ha...
Oct 21, 2020
U.S. set to announce legal action on opioid maker
By Doina Chiacu and Susan Heavey WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday will announce legal action involving an opioid manufacturer, the department said in a statement as o...
Oct 21, 2020
Morgan Stanley unveils scholarship fund for Black colleges
By Imani Moise (Reuters) - Morgan Stanley said on Wednesday it will cover college expenses for 60 students at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the banking industry's latest atte...
Oct 21, 2020
Congress presses DOJ to improve jail reporting system after Reuters report
By Peter Eisler and Jason Szep WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congressional leaders are calling on the U.S. Department of Justice to strengthen its tracking of deaths in local jails following a Reuters invest...
Oct 21, 2020
Analysis: U.S. investment bankers’ new pitch – Biden’s tax hike
By Joshua Franklin and Chibuike Oguh (Reuters) - Investment bankers keen to win lucrative assignments have a new pitch for U.S. corporate owners: hire us to sell your company now or pay at least twice...
Oct 21, 2020
U.S. banks sweat regulatory exposure from pandemic loans
By Lawrence Delevingne, Koh Gui Qing and Michelle Price BOSTON/NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Banks that facilitated the U.S. government's Paycheck Protection Program at first saw the effort as a sma...
Oct 21, 2020
Wall Street muted with eyes on stimulus
(Reuters) - Wall Street's main indexes were muted at the open on Wednesday as investors watched for signs that Washington could be close to agreeing on the next coronavirus aid package to support a fr...
Oct 21, 2020
Iraqi leader battles pressure from friends and foes in security crackdown
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - It was a series of intercepted phone calls on a tense night in June that made Iraq's new prime minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi fully realise how few friends he had. During one call, a ...
Oct 21, 2020
Thai royalists rally to counter surging protests
By Chayut Setboonsarng and Panarat Thepgumpanat BANGKOK (Reuters) - A few dozen Thai royalists held a rally in Bangkok on Wednesday in the face of protests against the government and the monarchy that...
Oct 21, 2020
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