Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Tesla’s Nevada lithium plan faces stark obstacles on path to production
By Ernest Scheyder (Reuters) - Tesla Inc's plan to produce lithium for electric vehicle batteries close to its Nevada Gigafactory faces stark challenges from the outset, including an onerous permittin...
Sep 23, 2020
New York’s Metropolitan Opera to remain closed for another year
(Reuters) - New York's famed Metropolitan Opera canceled its entire upcoming season on Wednesday and said it would remain closed until September 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic, a sign of the con...
Sep 23, 2020
Gilead to pay $97 million to settle U.S. kickback probe
By Jonathan Stempel WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Gilead Sciences Inc has agreed to pay $97 million to resolve U.S. government claims it used a purportedly independent charity to pay illegal kickbacks to cov...
Sep 23, 2020
Trump says he thinks 2020 election will end up at Supreme Court
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he thinks the 2020 election will end up at the U.S. Supreme Court, adding that he thinks that is why it is important to have nine j...
Sep 23, 2020
Reuters/Ipsos poll shows Biden, Trump about even in Florida, Arizona
By Jason Lange WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The race between Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and President Donald Trump looked like a toss-up among likely voters in Florida and Arizona, accordin...
Sep 23, 2020
Biden says Black turnout key to winning election, battling inequality
By Trevor Hunnicutt CHARLOTTE, N.C. (Reuters) - Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Wednesday said Black turnout was the linchpin to his hopes of winning the White House in November and rever...
Sep 23, 2020
Column: How Democrats could curb a conservative SCOTUS without court-packing: Frankel
By Alison Frankel NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Donald Trump and Republicans in the U.S. Senate are barreling forward with plans to lock down conservative control of the U.S. Supreme Court for decade...
Sep 23, 2020
Possible virus vulnerability discovered; about 20% of people with COVID-19 remain asymptomatic
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 ...
Sep 23, 2020
Democratic challenger leads in Arizona Senate race: Reuters/Ipsos
By Jason Lange WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic Senate candidate Mark Kelly leads Arizona's Republican incumbent Martha McSally among likely voters, according to Reuters/Ipsos opinion polls released ...
Sep 23, 2020
Facebook to reject political ads prematurely claiming election victory
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc will not accept political ads that seek to claim victory before the results of the 2020 U.S. election are declared, a company spokesman tweeted on Wednesday. The...
Sep 23, 2020
