Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Homeland Security steps up warnings about 2020 U.S. election security
By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Tuesday stepped up warnings about foreign threats to U.S. election security, affirming other agencies' concer...
Oct 06, 2020
U.S. CDC reports 209,560 deaths from coronavirus
(Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Tuesday reported 7,436,278 cases of the new coronavirus, an increase of 39,548 from its previous count, and said that the numbe...
Oct 06, 2020
Michigan governor signs bill giving state clerks more time to count absentee ballots
DETROIT (Reuters) - Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer on Tuesday signed into law a bill that gives clerks in larger cities of the battleground state an extra 10 hours to open and sort, but not count,...
Oct 06, 2020
U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff go into quarantine after coronavirus hits Coast Guard
By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military's Joint Chiefs of Staff have gone into self-quarantine after the Coast Guard's No. 2 tested positive for the novel coronavirus following a top-...
Oct 06, 2020
In face of COVID-19 spike, New York Orthodox Jews take holiday prayers outside
By Gabriella Borter MONSEY, N.Y. (Reuters) - Standing at least six feet apart and wearing skullcaps, prayer shawls and face masks, about two dozen Orthodox Jewish men pored over texts this week on a l...
Oct 06, 2020
U.S. Coast Guard’s No. 2 tests positive for coronavirus
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The No. 2 Coast Guard official, Admiral Charles Ray, has tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, and will begin quarantining from home, the Coast Gu...
Oct 06, 2020
Trump rape accuser seeks to bar U.S. government from her defamation lawsuit
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - The writer who accused Donald Trump of raping her in a Manhattan department store a quarter century ago argued that he cannot hide behind his job as U.S. presi...
Oct 06, 2020
Factbox: White House staff, top Republicans who have tested positive for COVID-19
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A growing number of White House staff and senior Republicans have tested positive for COVID-19 since President Donald Trump revealed he had contracted the respiratory disease. T...
Oct 06, 2020
Trump compares COVID-19 to flu in tweet, Twitter raises red flag
(Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump played down the COVID-19 pandemic again, comparing it to the flu in a tweet on Tuesday, and Twitter Inc responded by putting a warning label on the tweet, sayin...
Oct 06, 2020
Two more White House staffers test positive for COVID-19: reports
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Another two White House staffers have tested positive for COVID-19, according to media reports on Tuesday, one day after U.S. President Donald Trump returned to the White House ...
Oct 06, 2020
