Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Equity market turmoil seen unlikely to provoke rapid Fed response
By Matt Scuffham NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. stock market pullback has raised hopes that the Federal Reserve will ramp up asset purchases to boost the economy, but the sell-off was not steep enough ...
Sep 11, 2020
Factbox: On climate, it’s Biden’s green revolution versus Trump’s war on red tape
By Valerie Volcovici and Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. presidential election pits a politician who plans to tie the country's economic recovery to tackling climate change against ano...
Sep 11, 2020
Exclusive: China would rather see TikTok U.S. close than a forced sale
By Keith Zhai, Yingzhi Yang and Julie Zhu (Reuters) - Beijing opposes a forced sale of TikTok's U.S. operations by its Chinese owner ByteDance, and would prefer to see the short video app shut down in...
Sep 11, 2020
Eleven U.S. senators urge internet providers to aid student online schooling
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A group of 11 U.S. senators on Friday urged the chief executives of the seven largest U.S. internet providers to temporarily suspend data caps and fees for millions of U.S. scho...
Sep 11, 2020
Police debunk social media misinformation linking Oregon wildfires to activists
By Elizabeth Culliford (Reuters) - Several Oregon police departments have aimed to debunk misinformation spreading on social media platforms this week, including Facebook Inc and Twitter Inc, blaming ...
Sep 11, 2020
Georgia judge rules out referendum on abolishing police department in Black jogger case
ATLANTA (Reuters) - A Georgia Superior Court judge ruled on Friday that voters cannot decide to abolish the Glynn County Police Department over its handling of the murder of a Black jogger, an inciden...
Sep 11, 2020
U.S. judge urged to stop Justice Department’s ‘corrupt’ reversal in Flynn case
(Reuters) - A retired judge, appointed by the court to make arguments, on Friday said the U.S. Department of Justice should not be allowed to drop its criminal case against President Donald Trump's fo...
Sep 11, 2020
Factbox: Five U.S. gubernatorial races to watch
(Reuters) - Only a handful of the U.S. gubernatorial elections this year are expected to be competitive, according to current polling, with either Democratic and Republican candidates enjoying command...
Sep 11, 2020
Bahrain to normalise ties with Israel, Israeli media say
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Bahrain is to normalise relations with Israel, the diplomatic correspondent for Israel's public broadcaster Kan said in a tweet on Friday, without citing sources. Another Israeli...
Sep 11, 2020
Trump administration seeks sweeping DNA collection of immigrants, U.S. sponsors
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration on Friday formally proposed a sweeping expansion of its collection of DNA and other biometric data of immigrants, to go beyond detained migrants in orde...
Sep 11, 2020
