Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Crews battle wildfires in U.S. West as smoke travels the world
By Deborah Bloom and Brad Brooks PORTLAND, Ore. (Reuters) - As fire crews continued to battle deadly wildfires sweeping the western United States, thousands of evacuees in Oregon and other states face...
Sep 16, 2020
Lawmaker Rubio urges Trump to scrap TikTok-Oracle deal if Bytedance ties remain
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A top Republican lawmaker called on the Trump administration to reject a proposed deal for Oracle to become a "trusted technology provider" for popular social media platform Tik...
Sep 16, 2020
NYC mayor furloughs staff and self for one week beginning Oct. 1
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Everyone in the New York City mayor's office, including the mayor himself, will be furloughed for one week beginning Oct. 1 to close a budget shortfall created by the pandemic, Ma...
Sep 16, 2020
Biden leads Trump nationally by 9 points, with suburbs focused on coronavirus, not crime: Reuters/Ipsos poll
By Chris Kahn NEW YORK (Reuters) - Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden leads Republican President Donald Trump nationally among likely U.S. voters by 9 percentage points, according to a Reuters/...
Sep 16, 2020
Top Pompeo aides face U.S. House Democrats over Saudi weapons, official’s firing
By Patricia Zengerle and Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top aides to U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will testify to members of Congress on Wednesday about the firing of the former State...
Sep 16, 2020
Big Ten to start its college football season next month
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Big Ten Conference on Wednesday said it would launch its college football season the weekend of Oct. 23-24 after adopting "significant medical protocols" amid the novel coro...
Sep 16, 2020
U.S. plans to distribute COVID-19 vaccine immediately after authorization
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. government plans to begin distributing a COVID-19 vaccine within one day of any regulatory authorization, an official from the Department of Health and Human Services sai...
Sep 16, 2020
U.S. consumer spending appears to slow in August
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. consumer spending appeared to slow in August as extended unemployment benefits were cut for millions of Americans, offering more evidence that the economic recovery from th...
Sep 16, 2020
Pandemic ‘hero’ Filipino nurses struggle to leave home
By Karen Lema and Clare Baldwin MANILA (Reuters) - From across the Philippines, they gathered to pray by Zoom. They were praying to be allowed to leave: To be allowed to take up nursing jobs in countr...
Sep 16, 2020
Exclusive: Top Huawei executives had close ties to company at center of U.S. criminal case
By Steve Stecklow and Marcelo Rochabrun LONDON/SAO PAULO (Reuters) - An obscure Hong Kong-registered company stands at the center of the U.S. criminal case against China's Huawei Technologies and its ...
Sep 16, 2020
