Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
U.S. senators question Amazon on concerns it tracks employees, limits unionization
By Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Four Democratic U.S. senators on Thursday sent a letter to Amazon.com Inc's Chief Executive Jeff Bezos, demanding answers over the company's alleged moves to tra...
Oct 15, 2020
Black U.S. House candidate in Indiana says she’s being harassed, intimidated
By Brendan O'Brien and Makini Brice (Reuters) - The candidate running against U.S. Vice President Mike Pence's brother for a congressional seat in Indiana said on Thursday that people had made repeate...
Oct 15, 2020
Coronavirus exposure risk on airplanes very low, U.S. defense study finds
(Reuters) - The risk of exposure to the coronavirus on flights is very low, a U.S. Department of Defense study released on Thursday found, a positive sign for the airline industry as it tries to rebou...
Oct 15, 2020
‘I want freedom’: Thais mass to defy protest ban
By Patpicha Tanakasempipat BANGKOK (Reuters) - From shops, offices and schools they spilled onto a Bangkok street in their tens of thousands, voicing shock and anger and above all defiance. Thailand's...
Oct 15, 2020
FCC will move to set rules clarifying key social media protection: chair
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal Communications Commission chairman Ajit Pai said Thursday the agency will move forward to set new rules to clarify the meaning of a key legal protection for social media...
Oct 15, 2020
Saudi minister stresses bringing Israel, Palestinians into talks
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The main focus of Middle East peace efforts should be to bring Israel and the Palestinians back to the negotiating table, the Saudi foreign minister said on Thursday in a commen...
Oct 15, 2020
U.S. Senate’s McConnell says coronavirus relief package will be passed either before or after election
(Reuters) - U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Thursday that if a fresh COVID-19 relief package is not passed before the Nov. 3 election, it will be passed afterwards. "I think we nee...
Oct 15, 2020
U.S. CDC reports 216,025 deaths from coronavirus
(Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Thursday reported 7,894,768 cases of the new coronavirus, an increase of 59,761 from its previous count, and said that the numb...
Oct 15, 2020
Wall Street veteran Ray McGuire to run for New York mayor
By Noor Zainab Hussain and Imani Moise (Reuters) - Ray McGuire, one of the senior-most Black executives on Wall Street, is leaving his job at Citigroup Inc to run for mayor of New York in 2021, his sp...
Oct 15, 2020
Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Biden tested negative again for COVID-19
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden tested negative for COVID-19 on Wednesday night, his campaign said in a regular update. (Reporting by Trevor Hunnicutt in New York; ...
Oct 15, 2020
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