Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Study says Google market power has grown despite EU order to play fair
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) - U.S. tech giant Alphabet Inc's Google has boosted its market power in the three years since EU antitrust enforcers ordered it to stop favouring its own price compa...
Sep 28, 2020
U.S. must stand up to China if Biden wins, focus less on trade, Krugman says
By Isabel Versiani BRASILIA (Reuters) - Democratic candidate Joe Biden should maintain a tough stance against China if he wins the U.S. presidential election, but focus more on industrial policy than ...
Sep 28, 2020
New U.S. COVID-19 cases rise in 27 states for two straight weeks
(Reuters) - The number of new COVID-19 cases in the United States has risen for two weeks in a row in 27 out of 50 states, with North Carolina and New Mexico both reporting increases above 50% last we...
Sep 28, 2020
United Airlines pilots accept deal to avoid imminent furloughs
CHICAGO (Reuters) - United Airlines' pilots have voted to accept a deal that would avert the immediate furlough of thousands of pilots, the company said on Monday, even without an extension of federal...
Sep 28, 2020
Universal Health Services offline due to ‘IT security issue’
By Raphael Satter (Reuters) - Universal Health Services Inc said on Monday that its network has been knocked offline following an unspecified "IT security issue." The company, which runs some 400 hosp...
Sep 28, 2020
Trump says he will approve permit for Canada to Alaska railway to free landlocked oil
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump wrote on Twitter over the weekend he would issue a permit for a railway project from Canada's oil sands to ports in Alaska, a project that has many regula...
Sep 28, 2020
Pelosi says Trump administration must boost COVID-19 aid offer
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called on the Trump administration to boost their offer for more financial aid amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, saying she planned further ta...
Sep 28, 2020
Income inequality narrowed slightly over last three years: Fed
By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Income inequality in the United States narrowed in the first three years of the Trump administration as rising incomes and a low unemployment rate fueled gai...
Sep 28, 2020
Fourth U.S. judge issues order blocking Postal Service cuts
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A fourth judge on Monday issued a preliminary injunction barring the U.S. Postal Service from making service changes ahead of the November presidential election that critics hav...
Sep 28, 2020
‘Or gas them’: Germany’s far-right AfD fires official over migrant comment
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's hard right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party fired an official on Monday who had been caught on a hidden camera discussing gassing refugees. In footage, recorded secretl...
Sep 28, 2020
