Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
U.S. offers to exempt employees, contractors from TikTok executive order
By Raphael Satter (Reuters) - The United States has offered to exclude from President Donald Trump's executive order transactions that involve TikTok employees and contractors performing "their regula...
Sep 15, 2020
Special Report: U.S. troops battling racism report high barrier to justice
By Phil Stewart, M.B. Pell and Joshua Schneyer WASHINGTON (Reuters) - By the time he saw a swastika scrawled in the bathroom at Barksdale Air Force base in October 2018, Deven Sherk was already disill...
Sep 15, 2020
U.S. lawmakers committed to stay until they reach a coronavirus relief deal, Pelosi says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Tuesday that lawmakers are committed to reaching a deal on sending economic aid to those hurt by the coronavirus pande...
Sep 15, 2020
South Dakota AG says he thought he hit a deer while driving but later found out it was a man
(Reuters) - South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg said he only realized he had struck and killed a man on Saturday night as he drove home from a Republican party event after he returned to the...
Sep 15, 2020
WTO finds that U.S. tariffs on China breach global trade rules
GENEVA/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The World Trade Organization ruled on Tuesday that additional tariffs imposed by the United States against China in 2018 were inconsistent with global trading rules. A thre...
Sep 15, 2020
U.S. median income rises, poverty rate drops in 2019: U.S. Census data
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. median household income rose 6.8 percent last year to $68,700, while the number of people living in poverty dropped, the government said in a report on Tuesday that offered...
Sep 15, 2020
As world falls behind on U.N. wildlife targets, bright spots offer hope
By Matthew Green LONDON (Reuters) - All the world's governments have fallen short on pledges made a decade ago to protect wildlife, though cases of conservation show that the destruction of nature can...
Sep 15, 2020
Spiking U.S. gun sales deluge FBI’s background check system, cause delays
By Brad Brooks (Reuters) - A surge in people buying guns since the coronavirus pandemic began has flooded the FBI's background check system, causing a spike in the number of delayed checks and allowin...
Sep 15, 2020
U.S. import prices increase more than expected in August
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. import prices increased more than expected in August and gains in the prior month were revised sharply higher, supporting views that inflation pressures were building up. T...
Sep 15, 2020
Louisville to announce settlement in Breonna Taylor shooting: Courier Journal
(Reuters) - The city government of Louisville, Kentucky, is expected to announce on Tuesday a financial settlement with the family of Breonna Taylor, a Black woman fatally shot by police in March, the...
Sep 15, 2020
