Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Mexico’s president nods to environment but favors state energy firms
By David Alire Garcia MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - On the campaign trail two years ago, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador pledged to meet Mexico's commitments on combating global warming and discussed moving the...
Sep 03, 2020
Pandemic review panel to ask ‘hard questions’ – co-chairs
GENEVA (Reuters) - An independent panel set up review the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic will ask "hard questions" and has been assured of access to the records of the World Health Organizat...
Sep 03, 2020
U.S. weekly jobless claims drop more than expected
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits fell more than expected last week, but remained extraordinarily high amid signs that the labor market recover...
Sep 03, 2020
General Motors, Honda to form strategic alliance in North America
(Reuters) - General Motors and Japan's Honda Motor Co have signed a memorandum of understanding to form a North American automotive alliance, the U.S. automaker said on Thursday. The proposed alliance...
Sep 03, 2020
Live from Pyongyang: North Korea state media tests new formats on air and online
By Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) - As two typhoons hammered North Korea within a week of each other, state media broadcasts looked unusually reminiscent of international TV coverage, with correspondents ...
Sep 03, 2020
Kremlin tells West not to rush to judge it on Navalny as sanctions talk starts
By Andrew Osborn and Madeline Chambers MOSCOW/BERLIN (Reuters) - Russia said on Thursday the West should not rush to judge it over the poisoning of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny and said there were no...
Sep 03, 2020
‘Tenet’ tests American appetite for coronavirus movie-going
By Jill Serjeant LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Christopher Nolan's thriller "Tenet" finally arrives in U.S. movie theaters this weekend, hoping to revive movie going after a pandemic-induced closure of indo...
Sep 03, 2020
U.S. airlines isolated in bid to scrap change fees forever
By Tracy Rucinski and Laurence Frost CHICAGO/PARIS (Reuters) - A radical bid to revive air travel demand by permanently sacrificing billions of dollars in fees to change tickets has left U.S. airlines...
Sep 03, 2020
Struggling airlines lead U.S. planned job cuts in August: report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. employers announced another 115,762 job cuts in August, led by struggling airlines as the COVID-19 pandemic weighs on travel and financial assistance from the government la...
Sep 03, 2020
Facebook to halt new political ads just before U.S. election
By Katie Paul SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc said on Thursday it would stop accepting new political ads in the week before the U.S. presidential election in November, bowing to concern that it...
Sep 03, 2020
