Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
In occupied West Bank, Palestinian bloggers see local tourism as defiance
ARTAS, West Bank (Reuters) - Two Palestinian travel bloggers are promoting local Palestinian tourism in the West Bank as an act of defiance against Israeli occupation. The West Bank is scattered with ...
Sep 17, 2020
Defying protests and poverty, Haitians get creative to wed in style
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - As anti-government protesters in Haiti's capital blocked principal roads and clashed with police last year, Stanley Joseph and Daphne Gerard used the city's winding and poth...
Sep 17, 2020
Trump, Biden offer clashing visions on reopening economy
By Trevor Hunnicutt and Jason Lange (Reuters) - The coronavirus pandemic threw millions of Americans out of work, ended the longest U.S. economic expansion on record and undermined a key argument for ...
Sep 17, 2020
Fed’s Powell sees a long road to ‘maximum employment’
By Jonnelle Marte (Reuters) - The way Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell sees it, the U.S. labor market has a long way to go to meet the central bank's maximum employment goal and a lot of boxes to t...
Sep 17, 2020
Trump and Biden on race, policing and criminal justice
By Trevor Hunnicutt (Reuters) - Republican President Donald Trump and his Democratic opponent, Joe Biden, have contrasting records on race and criminal justice, issues that have risen in prominence in...
Sep 17, 2020
Exclusive: Suspected arms dealers moved millions in Somali money transfers, report says
By Katharine Houreld NAIROBI (Reuters) - Somali money transfer companies moved more than $3.7 million in cash between suspected weapons traffickers in recent years, including to a Yemeni under U.S. sa...
Sep 17, 2020
Headaches and hospital visits as wildfire smoke blankets the U.S. West
By Sharon Bernstein SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) - The splitting headaches began when smoke from wildfires rolled in around Tim Hunt's suburban Seattle home. Next came a debilitating fatigue. As deadl...
Sep 17, 2020
Navalny team says he was poisoned by water bottle in hotel room, not at airport
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was poisoned by a bottle of water in his hotel room in the Siberian city of Tomsk, not at the airport as previously thought, his team said alongside a ...
Sep 17, 2020
Hurricane Sally weakens to tropical storm, leaves massive floods on U.S. Gulf Coast
By Devika Krishna Kumar and Catherine Koppel PENSACOLA, Fla. (Reuters) - Hurricane Sally moved northeast Thursday, where it was expected to bring more than a foot of rain to some areas, one day after ...
Sep 17, 2020
Biden warns UK on Brexit: No trade deal unless you respect Northern Irish peace deal
LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has warned the United Kingdom that it must honour the Northern Irish peace deal as it extracts itself from the European Union or the...
Sep 17, 2020
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