Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Japan’s Suga elected as country’s first new PM in eight years
TOKYO (Reuters) - Yoshihide Suga was elected as Japan's prime minister on Wednesday, becoming the country's first new leader in nearly eight years and facing a raft of challenges including reviving an...
Sep 15, 2020
Pandemic sharpens ‘battle for the soul’ of United Nations between U.S. and China
By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Long-simmering tensions between the United States and China have hit boiling point at the United Nations over the coronavirus pandemic, spotlighting Beij...
Sep 15, 2020
In coronavirus vaccine race, China inoculates thousands before trials are completed
By David Stanway and Miyoung Kim SHANGHAI/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - China is inoculating tens of thousands of its citizens with experimental coronavirus vaccines and attracting international interest in t...
Sep 15, 2020
Trump says coronavirus vaccine could be weeks away: ABC News town hall
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday said a vaccine against the deadly coronavirus could be three or four weeks away, underscoring predictions made by U.S. public health offic...
Sep 15, 2020
California wildfire threatens Mount Wilson Observatory and communications hub
By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Firefighters waged an all-out ground and air campaign on Tuesday to save the famed Mount Wilson Observatory and an adjacent hub of communications towers from a ...
Sep 15, 2020
Japan’s Suga to formally take up job, announce cabinet
By Elaine Lies TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese ruling party president Yoshihide Suga was poised to become the nation's next prime minister on Wednesday, pulling together a "continuity" cabinet, about half ...
Sep 15, 2020
Biden rips Trump’s record on ethanol
By Stephanie Kelly NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden late on Tuesday attacked President Donald Trump's record on ethanol, saying his administration's recent moves to ...
Sep 15, 2020
Trump plans to nominate Simington for FCC
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump plans to nominate Nathan Simington, a senior adviser at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, to be a member of the Federal Comm...
Sep 15, 2020
U.S. watchdog to investigate whistleblower’s detention allegations
By Mimi Dwyer and Mica Rosenberg LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. immigration officials said on Tuesday a federal watchdog would investigate complaints made by a whistleblower nurse in a Georgia ...
Sep 15, 2020
Asian stocks set for mixed session as investors await Fed
By John McCrank NEW YORK (Reuters) - Asian shares were set for a mixed open on Wednesday as investors awaited the Federal Reserve's view on the economy at the end of its policy meeting, although upbea...
Sep 15, 2020
