Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Los Angeles county allows schools to reopen for students with special needs
By Sharon Bernstein (Reuters) - Los Angeles County will allow schools to reopen to serve small groups of students with special needs and those for whom English is a second language, the latest move to...
Sep 02, 2020
U.S. CDC tells states to prep for COVID-19 vaccine distribution by November
(Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has asked state public health officials to prepare to distribute a potential coronavirus vaccine to high-risk groups as soon as la...
Sep 02, 2020
U.S. court: Mass surveillance program exposed by Snowden was illegal
By Raphael Satter (Reuters) - Seven years after former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden blew the whistle on the mass surveillance of Americans' telephone records, an appeals court ha...
Sep 02, 2020
U.S. attorney general says mail-in voting open to ‘fraud and coercion’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General William Barr said on Wednesday that mail-in ballots for the Nov. 3 election could be vulnerable to fraud, echoing an argument President Donald Trump has ma...
Sep 02, 2020
Amid plans to quit, U.S. will not pay what it owes WHO this year
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States said on Wednesday that it will not pay some $80 million it currently owes to the Geneva-based World Health Organization (WHO) and will instead redirect the mon...
Sep 02, 2020
Barr says there is ‘false narrative’ that many Black people are shot by white police officers
(Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General William Barr on Wednesday said there is a "false narrative" in the U.S. that many unarmed Black people are shot by white police officers. "I think the narrative that ...
Sep 02, 2020
Exclusive: Vaccine group says 76 rich countries now committed to ‘COVAX’ access plan
By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - Seventy-six wealthy nations are now committed to joining a global COVID-19 vaccine allocation plan co-led by the World Health Organization (WHO) that aims to help bu...
Sep 02, 2020
Facebook removes GOP lawmaker’s threat to ‘drop’ protesters
By Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. congressman's post that suggested armed Black demonstrators should be met with force was removed by Facebook on Wednesday for violating its policies aga...
Sep 02, 2020
Police investigating bomb hoax at Texas pipeline construction site
By Erwin Seba HOUSTON (Reuters) - Federal and Texas law enforcement agencies are investigating a device made to look like a bomb placed at a construction site for a controversial natural gas pipeline ...
Sep 02, 2020
Mississippi panel selects magnolia design to replace retired state flag
By Rich McKay (Reuters) - Mississippi on Wednesday took a big step toward replacing its old state flag dominated by the Confederate "stars and bars" when a commission selected a new design featuring a...
Sep 02, 2020
