Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Pelosi says Trump offer on coronavirus bill falls short, still hopes for deal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Tuesday the offer President Donald Trump recently made on a coronavirus stimulus package after he scrapped talks fell far short of what t...
Oct 13, 2020
Court reinstates Texas governor’s order limiting ballot drop sites to one per county
By Joseph Ax (Reuters) - A federal appeals court reinstated an order from Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott that limits absentee ballot drop-off sites to only one per county, regardless of populat...
Oct 13, 2020
World Food Programme says needs $6.8 billion over next six months to avert famine
By Maytaal Angel LONDON (Reuters) - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) will need to raise$6.8 billion over the next six months to avert famine amid the COVID-19 crisis, the agency said on T...
Oct 13, 2020
Delta Air delays target to halt cash burn but has $1.3 billion leftover payroll aid
By Tracy Rucinski CHICAGO (Reuters) - Delta Air Lines said on Tuesday it does not expect to plug a daily cash bleed due to the COVID-19 pandemic until next spring, although it has at its disposal $1.3...
Oct 13, 2020
‘Blue wave’ U.S. election expectations trigger green stocks frenzy
By Ritvik Carvalho LONDON (Reuters) - Growing expectations of a strong Democratic victory in U.S. elections have prompted investors to snap up renewable energy stocks, amplifying a recent rush seen af...
Oct 13, 2020
Ghislaine Maxwell to urge U.S. appeals court to keep damaging deposition secret
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Ghislaine Maxwell, a longtime associate of the late financier Jeffrey Epstein, will urge a federal appeals court on Tuesday to overturn a ruling she says jeopardizes her ability t...
Oct 13, 2020
After frying chicken for over 100 years, Kansas restaurant is shut by pandemic
By Timothy Aeppel and Arin Yoon ABILENE, Kan. (Reuters) - Mark Martin's family restaurant weathered two world wars, the Dust Bowl, and the Great Depression, serving up heaping plates of hand-battered ...
Oct 13, 2020
How poor regions lose out because of U.S. census undercounts
By Nick Brown ESPANOLA, New Mexico (Reuters) - Getting an accurate count of America's population has proven difficult in the 2020 Census as the coronavirus pandemic has hampered voluntary responses an...
Oct 13, 2020
S&P, Dow futures slip ahead of bank, J&J earnings
By Medha Singh (Reuters) - Futures tracking the Dow and S&P 500 dipped on Tuesday as investors looked to the big U.S. banks to kick off the quarterly corporate earnings season, with focus also on comm...
Oct 13, 2020
Trump’s Supreme Court nominee to face tough scrutiny from Senate Democrats
By Andrew Chung, Lawrence Hurley and Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett on Tuesday will face the first of two days of direct questioning from senator...
Oct 13, 2020
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