Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Explainer: Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision hinged on women’s right to privacy
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The death of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has raised concerns among reproductive rights advocates that women could lose the right to choose whether to have an ...
Sep 23, 2020
Trump-appointed justice could signal major Supreme Court shift on abortion
By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With President Donald Trump poised to nominate a U.S. Supreme Court justice to fill the vacancy created by the death of liberal icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a ne...
Sep 23, 2020
Advertisers agree deal with social media on steps to curb harmful content
By Martinne Geller LONDON (Reuters) - Facebook, YouTube and Twitter have agreed with big advertisers on first steps to curb harmful content online, following boycotts of social media platforms that ad...
Sep 23, 2020
Exclusive: How COVID-19 stimulus money will end up in U.S. tobacco farmers’ pockets
By P.J. Huffstutter and Tom Polansek CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. government aid payments to tobacco farmers will be channeled through a new account within the office of the agriculture secretary, an unus...
Sep 23, 2020
Testing ahead of U.S. elections reveals struggle to quell disinformation
By Christopher Bing WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. election day exercises simulating attacks ranging from hackers to anthrax to disrupt voting show state and local officials will struggle to quickly coun...
Sep 23, 2020
UK’s new COVID measures met with scepticism, confusion
By Sarah Young and Kate Holton LONDON (Reuters) - The British government on Wednesday defended its new, stricter coronavirus measures against criticism that they did not got far enough, saying it was ...
Sep 23, 2020
Lukashenko abruptly sworn in for new presidential term in Belarus
MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus was sworn in for a new term on Wednesday, the official news agency Belta said, in a sudden inauguration conducted with no prior announcemen...
Sep 23, 2020
German hospital says Kremlin critic Navalny has been discharged
BERLIN (Reuters) - Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has been discharged from the hospital in Berlin where he has been treated after falling ill on a domestic flight in Siberia last month and then being a...
Sep 23, 2020
In the name of the mother: Afghan woman wins recognition, sparks Taliban opposition
By Orooj Hakimi and Storay Karimi HERAT/KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan woman Laleh Osmany has been campaigning for years for a change to the age-old custom of officially identifying people by the names of t...
Sep 23, 2020
Positive about flying? Airlines look to COVID tests that give results in minutes
By John Miller and Emilio Parodi ZURICH/MILAN (Reuters) - European airlines are pinning hopes on pre-flight COVID-19 tests that deliver results as fast as pregnancy tests to help restore passengers' c...
Sep 23, 2020
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