Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
U.S. Senate committee formally announces October 12 Supreme Court hearing
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee announced on Monday that it would open a confirmation hearing for President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett, on Oct. ...
Oct 05, 2020
Don’t politicize the virus, Pelosi tells Trump
By Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump has no basis for claiming success battling the country's coronavirus crisis, Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi s...
Oct 05, 2020
Biden campaigns in crucial Florida as Trump plans end to hospital stay
By Jeff Mason MIAMI (Reuters) - As President Donald Trump announced he would leave a military hospital on Monday after three days of COVID-19 treatment, challenger Joe Biden attacked the president for...
Oct 05, 2020
IMF urges infrastructure investment to boost post-COVID growth
By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund on Monday said member governments should seize a low interest rate opportunity to invest in infrastructure to drive recovery from...
Oct 05, 2020
COVID-19 cases surge in U.S. Midwest and Northeast
(Reuters) - After crushing their COVID-19 outbreaks in the spring and keeping them in check all summer, states in the U.S. Northeast are now seeing infections accelerate, with New York reporting nearl...
Oct 05, 2020
Reuters/Ipsos poll shows Biden leading in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin
By Jason Lange WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden appeared to lead President Donald Trump in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania less than a month before the Nov. 3 election, ac...
Oct 05, 2020
U.S. commercial bankruptcies up 33% year to date
(Reuters) - U.S. commercial bankruptcy filings are up 33% so far this year with new cases in September surging by 78% from a year earlier as the recession triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic hits small...
Oct 05, 2020
U.S. indicts anti-virus software creator John McAfee for tax evasion
By Katanga Johnson and Sarah N. Lynch (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors unsealed an indictment on Monday against John David McAfee, creator of the eponymous anti-virus software, over charges that he eva...
Oct 05, 2020
Former CEO to serve home confinement in U.S. college admissions scandal
By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) - The former chief executive of a staffing and information technology services provider was sentenced on Monday to a year of home confinement after admitting he partic...
Oct 05, 2020
Breathing with face mask does not alter oxygen level; virus can last nine hours on skin
By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) - The following is a roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness caused by ...
Oct 05, 2020
