Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
New season of ‘Fortnite’ is here, Apple users miss out
(Reuters) - Epic Games launched the new season of hit video game "Fortnite" on Thursday, pitting Marvel super heroes against Fantastic Four-villain Galactus in the first update to exclude iPhone and i...
Aug 27, 2020
U.S. weekly jobless claims drift around 1 million
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits hovered around 1 million last week, suggesting the labor market recovery was stalling as the COVID-19 pandemi...
Aug 27, 2020
U.S. Judge blocks federal execution set for Friday
(Reuters) - A U.S. District Court judge in Washington, D.C., on Thursday ordered a halt to the federal government's planned execution on Friday of Keith Dwayne Nelson, saying its lethal injection prot...
Aug 27, 2020
From golden age to war and ruin: Lebanon in turmoil as it hits 100
By Tom Perry and Imad Creidi BEIRUT (Reuters) - Looking back on his childhood in the newly declared state of Lebanon nearly a century ago, Salah Tizani says the country was set on course for calamity ...
Aug 27, 2020
Trump says he saved 51 million jobs in pandemic. Economists, U.S. officials say otherwise
By Lawrence Delevingne, Chris Prentice, Michelle Price and Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Standing before half a dozen American flags during a press conference at his country club in Bedminster, Ne...
Aug 27, 2020
Shockwaves from Wisconsin police shooting rattle U.S. sports and politics
By Brendan McDermid and Stephen Maturen KENOSHA, Wis. (Reuters) - Peace returned to Kenosha, Wisconsin, for a night but shockwaves from the police shooting that paralyzed a Black man reverberated acro...
Aug 27, 2020
Wall Street futures down ahead of Powell’s speech on monetary policy
By Medha Singh (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures dipped on Thursday as tensions between Washington and Beijing dampened the mood ahead of an address by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, in which...
Aug 27, 2020
EU signs contract with AstraZeneca on supply of potential COVID-19 vaccine
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission said on Thursday it had signed a contract on behalf of EU states with British drugmaker AstraZeneca for the supply of at least 300 million doses of its COV...
Aug 27, 2020
Trump caps Republican convention with pitch for a second White House term
By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump will make a crucial pitch for a second term in the White House on Thursday with a keynote address at the Republican National Convention high...
Aug 27, 2020
Delta, facing its own troubles, may have to repay $300 million on behalf of Brazil’s Gol
By Marcelo Rochabrun SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Delta Air Lines is facing a fresh Latin American headache as a Monday deadline nears for former Brazilian partner Gol Linhas Aereas Inteligentes to repay a $...
Aug 27, 2020
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