Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Teenager charged with killing two in Kenosha faces extradition hearing
(Reuters) - Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenager charged with killing two people and injuring another during demonstrations on the streets of Kenosha, Wisconsin, faces a court hearing on Friday about his po...
Sep 25, 2020
The ventilators never came: How graft hampered Brazil’s COVID-19 response
By Gram Slattery and Ricardo Brito RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - As COVID-19 patients flooded Rio de Janeiro's public health system from early April to late May, Dr. Pedro Archer found himself making gut...
Sep 25, 2020
Explainer: ‘Naked’ ballots loom over U.S. election, as Trump blasts mail-in voting
By Jan Wolfe (Reuters) - As Republican President Donald Trump assails the use of mail-in voting, a Pennsylvania court decision over the use of envelopes for hiding the identity of mail-in voters could...
Sep 25, 2020
Pioneering Justice Ginsburg makes history again with U.S. Capitol honor
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a champion of gender equality, will make history again on Friday as the first woman and the first Jewish person t...
Sep 25, 2020
U.S. imports surge as pandemic worries have retailers stockpiling
By Lisa Baertlein LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Los Angeles-based maker of Exploding Kittens and Throw Throw Burrito board games ordered 1 million extra units from its factory in China with the hope of ...
Sep 25, 2020
Special Report: Will your mail ballot count in the U.S. presidential election? It may depend on who’s counting and where
By Julia Harte, Jason Lange and Simon Lewis (Reuters) - Two elderly women in small towns in Wisconsin voted by mail during April's presidential nominating contests. Both were sheltering in place as co...
Sep 25, 2020
Japanese researchers trial early warning test for acute COVID-19 cases
By Rocky Swift TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese researchers have developed a blood test they say appears to serve as an early warning system for serious cases of COVID-19, and deployed 500 prototype machine...
Sep 25, 2020
Rescue of stranded whales in Australia enters final days
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Rescuers were trying to save the few remaining long-finned pilot whales still floundering in shallow waters off the Australian coast on Friday in one of the world's biggest mass wha...
Sep 25, 2020
World’s youth rallies against climate change
By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) - United under Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, young people rallied across the world on Friday to demand urgent action to halt catastrophic climate change, in their ...
Sep 25, 2020
Frustrated Australian climate activist juggles school and a lawsuit
By Jill Gralow SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian school student Ambrose Hayes, 15, rode on a protest barge in Sydney Harbour on Friday holding a huge yellow banner demanding "No Gas" as part of a global c...
Sep 25, 2020
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